par Lutsko, James 
Référence The Journal of Chemical Physics, 135, 0, page (161101)
Publication Publié, 2011
Référence The Journal of Chemical Physics, 135, 0, page (161101)
Publication Publié, 2011
Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | Homogeneous nucleation is formulated within the context of fluctuating hydrodynamics. It is shown that for a colloidal system in the strong damping limit the most likely path for nucleation can be determined by gradient descent in density space governed by a nontrivial metric. This is illustrated by application to low-density/high-density liquid transition of globular proteins in solution where it is shown that nucleation process involves two stages: the formation of an extended region with enhanced density followed by the formation of a cluster within this region |
