Critical volume fraction and size for a colloidal cluster to nucleate

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/19/12/128203

Abstract With the aid of the critical size of colloidal cluster, the critical volume fraction of phase transition of colloidal system is determined by the principle of entropy maximum and Carnahan–Starling (CS) state equation in this paper. In our discussion, no parameter is introduced externally, and our results are in good agreement with the experimental results.

Keywords: depletion interaction nucleation packing cluster

Received: 06 January 2010
Revised: 04 July 2010
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PACS:	64.70.K-
	65.40.G-	(Other thermodynamical quantities)
	81.30.Hd	(Constant-composition solid-solid phase transformations: polymorphic, massive, and order-disorder)
	82.70.Dd	(Colloids)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10375024 and 10775018), the Science Foundation of Hunan Educational Committee of China (Grant Nos. 08B028 and 06B057), and the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province of China (Grant No. 08jj6043).

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Zhao Dan-Dan(赵丹丹), Long Lian-Feng(龙联丰), and Xiao Chang-Ming(肖长明) Critical volume fraction and size for a colloidal cluster to nucleate 2010 Chin. Phys. B 19 128203

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