This book represents a detailed and systematic account of the basic
principles, developments and applications of the theory of
nucleation.
The formation of new phases begins with the process of nucleation
and is, therefore, a widely spread phenomenon in both nature and
technology. Condensation and evaporation, crystal growth,
electrodeposition, melt crystallization, growth of thin films for
microelectronics, volcano eruption and formation of particulate
matter in space are only a few of the processes in which nucleation
plays a prominent role.
The book has four parts, which are devoted to the
thermodynamics of nucleation, the kinetics of nucleation, the
effect of various factors on nucleation and the application of the
theory to other processes, which involve nucleation. The first two
parts describe in detail the two basic approaches in nucleation
theory - the thermodynamic and the kinetic ones. They contain
derivations of the basic and most important formulae of the theory
and discuss their limitations and possibilities for improvement.
The third part deals with some of the factors that can affect
nucleation and is a natural continuation of the first two chapters.
The last part is devoted to the application of the theory to
processes of practical importance such as melt crystallization and
polymorphic transformation, crystal growth and growth of thin solid
films, size distribution of droplets and crystallites in
condensation and crystallization. The book is not just an account
of the status quo in nucleation theory - throughout the book there
are a number of new results as well as extensions and
generalisations of existing ones.
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