Direct observation of pre-critical nuclei in a metastable hard-sphere fluid

M S  Elliot; S B  Haddon; Wilson Poon

Direct observation of pre-critical nuclei in a metastable hard-sphere fluid

M S Elliot, S B Haddon, Wilson Poon

School of Physics and Astronomy

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Abstract

We imaged at single-particle resolution the birth, life and death of a sub-critical nucleus containing similar to 10(3) particles in a crystallizing hard-sphere colloidal fluid at volume fraction phi = 0.51. This gives a lower bound to the critical nuclear size for hard-sphere crystallization at this volume fraction.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	L553-L558
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
Volume	13
Issue number	23
Publication status	Published - 11 Jun 2001

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

COLLOIDAL SPHERES
SUSPENSIONS
CRYSTALS
CRYSTALLIZATION
TRANSITION
KINETICS

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Direct observation of pre-critical nuclei in a metastable hard-sphere fluid

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