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Transient Nucleation in Devitrification
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2011
Abstract
A review is given of transient crystal nucleation in glassy or amorphous solids. The types of behaviour are surveyed. It is shown that the kinetics can be quantitatively modelled and that the matching of experiment and theory provides an important test of the classical theory. Examples are considered of homogeneous nucleation (affecting glass formation), heterogeneous nucleation, and nucleation at an interphase interface. While the emphasis is on transient effects of the kind implicit in the classical theory, it is shown that transients can arise for other reasons as well, thus potentially complicating the interpretation of experiments.
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