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Nucleation and Undercooling

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Nucleation plays an important role in many processes involving phase changes, such as boiling, condensation, cloud formation, solidification, defect formation etc. Even though it is not invoked in the formation of a-morphous solid phases, nucleation dynamics is an essential ingredient into our understanding of glassy solidification. Nucleation effects occur whenever the free energy of a phase formed in a transformation process becomes size dependent, and they lead invariably to the phenomenon of undercooling. The latter is a non-equilibrium process which gives access to areas in the phase diagram not accessible to equilibrium systems.

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Herlach, D.M., Feuerbacher, B. (1986). Nucleation and Undercooling. In: Feuerbacher, B., Hamacher, H., Naumann, R.J. (eds) Materials Sciences in Space. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82761-7_8

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