Quantitative Prediction of Crystal Nucleation Rates for Spherical Colloids: A Computational Study

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Contents

1 Introduction

Part I Theoretical and technical introduction

2 Rare events

3 Classical theory: Steady-state nucleation

4 Quantitative prediction of a nucleation rate: A computational approach

Part II Application to spherical colloids

5 Prediction of absolute crystal-nucleation rate in hard-sphere colloids

6 Suppression of crystal nucleation in polydisperse colloids due to increase of the surface free energy

7 Crystallization of weakly charged colloidal spheres: A numerical study

8 Phase behavior and crystallization kinetics of PHSA-coated PMMA colloids

9 Wall induced crystallization in a hard-sphere system

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Summary

Samenvatting (Summary in Dutch)

Curriculum Virae

Acknowledgments

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