Homogeneous melting near the superheat limit of hard-sphere crystals.
Sign Up to like & getrecommendations! Published in 2018 at "Soft matter"
DOI: 10.1039/c7sm02291c
Abstract: A defect-free crystal can be superheated into a metastable state above its melting point and eventually melts via homogeneous nucleation. Further increasing the temperature leads to the metastable crystal becoming unstable and melting catastrophically once… read more here.
Keywords: homogeneous melting; sphere crystals; limit; hard sphere ... See more keywords