Ion-induced nucleation in polar one-component fluids
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-11 v1
Abstract
We present a Ginzburg-Landau theory of ion-induced nucleation in a gas phase of polar one-component fluids, where a liquid droplet grows with an ion at its center. By calculating the density profile around an ion, we show that the solvation free energy is larger in gas than in liquid at the same temperature on the coexistence curve. This difference much reduces the nucleation barrier in a metastable gas.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0508030,
title = {Ion-induced nucleation in polar one-component fluids},
author = {Hikaru Kitamura and Akira Onuki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0508030},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
9 pagers, 9 figures, to be published in J. Chem. Phys