Nucleation kinetics of polar compounds. Effect of curvature and dipole—dipole interaction on surface energy

✍ Scribed by F. Joseph Kumar; D. Jayaraman; C. Subramanian; P. Ramasamy

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 439 KB
• Volume: 206
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(93)80161-h

✦ Synopsis

Based on thermodynamical concepts, a new expression for the surface energy of a microcluster of a polar material has been derived incorporating the effect of curvature and the dipole-dipole interactions. Using the expression, the nucleation parameters of the polar materials chloroform and acetonitrile have been calculated. A study of the dependence of critical supersaturation on the temperature has also been made and compared with the available experimental results.