What is it about?
Nucleation, the birth of a stable cluster from disorder, is inherently stochastic. Yet up to date, there are no quantitative studies on NaCl nucleation that accounts for its stochastic nature.
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Why is it important?
We report a stochastic approach to extract the nucleation kinetic parameters from the induction time distribution of evaporating sessile microdroplets, using NaCl-H2O as a model system
Perspectives
Given the stochastic nature of nucleation, we aim to inspire a more statistical approach to nucleation and to broaden the data set on nucleation parameters. This is a first step towards testing different nucleation theories.
Stéphane Veesler
Aix-Marseille Universite
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This page is a summary of: CNT effective interfacial energy and pre-exponential kinetic factor from measured NaCl crystal nucleation time distributions in contracting microdroplets, The Journal of Chemical Physics, May 2023, American Institute of Physics,
DOI: 10.1063/5.0143704.
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