Nucleation of electrically charged droplets
Abstract
The presence of a finite electric potential in many nucleation environments is discussed. It is contended that this potential introduces a nontrivial modification in the conventional nucleation theory. (AIP)
- Publication:
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Journal of Chemical Physics
- Pub Date:
- February 1979
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.437646
- Bibcode:
- 1979JChPh..70.2046D
- Keywords:
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- Charged Particles;
- Drop Size;
- Electric Potential;
- Nucleation;
- Condensing;
- Free Energy;
- Homogenizing;
- Plasma Sheaths;
- Vapor Phases;
- Physics (General);
- 82.60.Nh;
- Thermodynamics of nucleation