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Nucleation kinetics in deionized charged colloidal model systems: A quantitative study by means of classical nucleation theory

2007

We have studied the nucleation kinetics of charged colloidal model systems under salt free conditions crystallizing in bcc structure covering a wide range of particle number densities $18\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\mathrm{\ensuremath{\mu}}{\mathrm{m}}^{\ensuremath{-}3}\ensuremath{\le}n\ensuremath{\le}66.3\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\mathrm{\ensuremath{\mu}}{\mathrm{m}}^{\ensuremath{-}3}$. We employed direct video-microscopic observation of individual nucleation events to obtain time resolved nucleation rate densities. Polarization microscopy and static light scattering on the resulting solids in combination with Avrami theory is used to determine the steady state nucleation rate at high unde…