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Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 4506 - 4509 (1997)

Resolution of the Problems of Replacement Free Energy, 1/S, and Internal Consistency in Nucleation Theory by Consideration of the Length Scale for Mixing Entropy

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Howard Reiss, Willem K. Kegel, and Joseph L. Katz
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544

Received 26 December 1996

The problems of (i) replacement free energy, (ii) 1/S, and (iii) internal consistency in the classical theory of nucleation, based on the capillarity approximation, are resolved by the proper evaluation of mixing entropy.


©1997 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.4506
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.4506
PACS: 82.60.Nh, 05.70.Ce, 82.20.Db, 82.20.Mj

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