2003/02/24 by F. J. Cherne, M. I. Baskes, R. B. Schwarz +3 · 2 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Material Dynamics and Properties #Theoretical and Computational Physics #cond-mat.mtrl-sci #cond-mat.stat-mech #nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0965-0393/12/6/001
4 pages, 5 figures
arxiv created 2003/02/24 · openalex publication_date 2004/09/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The dynamics of homogeneous nucleation and growth of crystalline nickel from the super-cooled melt is examined during rapid quenching using molecular dynamics and a modified embedded atom method potential. The character of the critical nuclei of the crystallization transition is examined using common neighbor analysis and visualization. At nucleation the saddle point droplet consists of randomly stacked planar structures with an in plane triangular order. These results are consistent with previous theoretical results that predict that the nucleation process in some metals is non-classical due to the presence of long-range forces and a spinodal.