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تسجيل مستخدم جديدSimulations of Crystal Nucleation from Solution at Constant Chemical Potential
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A widely spread method of crystal preparation is to precipitate it from a supersaturated solution. In such a process, control of solution concentration is of paramount importance. Nucleation process, polymorph selection, and crystal habits depend crucially on this thermodynamic parameter. When performing simulations in the canonical ensemble as the crystalline phase is deposited the solution is depleted of solutes. This unavoidable modification of the thermodynamic conditions leads to significant artifact. Here we adopt the idea of the constant chemical potential molecular dynamics approach of Perego et al. [J. Chem. Phys. 2015, 142, 144113] to the study of nucleation. Our method allows determining the crystal nucleus size and nucleation rates at constant supersaturation. As an example we study the homogeneous nucleation of sodium chloride from its supersaturated aqueous solution.
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