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Nucleation

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Nucleation and Growth: Interfacial Phenomena

Explores nucleation, growth, Ostwald ripening, LaPlace pressure, Kelvin equation, phase equilibrium, size dependence of phase transitions, critical micelle concentration, self-assembly, temperature dependence of nucleation rate, heterogeneous nucleation, and melting point depression.

Nanocrystal Synthesis: Nucleation and Growth

Explores nanocrystal synthesis, focusing on nucleation and growth mechanisms, classical and non-classical theories, and chemical reaction mechanisms for metal oxides and semiconductors.

The Crystalline Phase: Polymers and Crystallization

Delves into the crystalline phase of polymers, emphasizing crystallization processes and structural influences on melting temperatures.

Phase Transformations II: solid-state transformations

Explores solid-state transformations, nucleation, kinetics, hardness testing, thermodynamics, and shape memory effects in materials.

Crystallization and Rubber Elasticity

Explores crystallization kinetics, rubber elasticity, and network formation through crosslinking and entropy-driven processes.

Powder Synthesis: Precipitation

Explores powder synthesis through precipitation, covering nucleation, growth mechanisms, crystal structures, and material doping.

Chaperones Effects: Amyloid Beta Peptide Aggregation

Delves into the contrasting effects of chaperones on amyloid beta peptide aggregation, exploring inhibitors, oligomer quantification, and antibody impacts.

Catalyst Synthesis II: Deposition and Precipitation

Explores catalyst synthesis through deposition and precipitation, covering principles, applications, (co-)precipitation, zeolites, carbon supports, and perovskites.

Evaporation vs Boiling: Phase Change Efficiency

Explores the efficiency of phase change processes, focusing on evaporation and boiling, differentiating between the two and discussing the various regimes of pool boiling.

Powder Synthesis: Solid Reactions

Explores powder synthesis through solid reactions, discussing kinetics, limitations, SiC synthesis, and nucleation processes.

Nanocrystal Properties: Size and Shape Control

Explores the significance of monodispersity and composition in nanocrystal properties, focusing on size and shape control techniques.

Crystalline Phase in Polymers

Explores the crystalline phase in polymeric materials, focusing on characterization, kinetics, and thermodynamics of crystallization.

Polymer Phase Behavior

Explores the physical chemistry of polymeric materials, emphasizing concentrated solutions and phase separation behavior.

Phase Transformations I: Solidification

Explores phase transformations, focusing on solidification, covering topics such as mix energy, entropy, enthalpy, nucleation, dendritic growth, eutectic solidification, and constitutional supercooling.

Ice Crystal Formation: Processes and Shapes

Covers ice crystal formation, processes, shapes, and snow metamorphism, explaining the significance of snow metamorphism and the growth of ice crystals.

Protein self-assembly and phase transitions

Delves into protein self-assembly, phase transitions, and aggregation mechanisms in diseases like Alzheimer's.

Phase Diagrams: Equilibrium and Transformations

Explores phase diagrams, transformations, nucleation, growth, diffusion, and solidification in alloys.

Thermodynamics: Surface Energy & Crystal Growth

Explores surface energy, crystal growth, adhesion, and nucleation theories in thermodynamics and materials science.

Activated Events: Molecular Simulations

Explores molecular simulations, enhanced sampling techniques, reaction coordinates, and rare event sampling methods in complex systems.

Two Phase Flow and Heat Transfer

Explores two-phase flow, heat transfer, drop growth, coalescence, adhesion, condensation on nanoscale structures, and antifogging materials.