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标题：Spontaneous nucleation on flat surface by depletion force in colloidal suspension
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作者：Nobutomo Nakamura ; Yuto Sakamoto ; Hirotsugu Ogi 等
期刊名称：Scientific Reports
电子版ISSN：2045-2322
出版年度：2021
卷号：11
DOI：10.1038/s41598-021-87626-9
语种：English
出版社：Springer Nature
摘要：Nucleation by sedimentation of colloidal particles on a flat surface is experimentally observed, and effect of attractive depletion force generated by polymers on nucleation is investigated. Sedimentation forms polycrystalline colloidal crystal on a flat surface, and above the threshold polymer concentration, ratio of the spontaneous nucleation increases, resulting in a decrease in the grain size, whereas dependence of the contact angle on the polymer concentration was not observed. We show that the interaction between particles and the flat surface mainly affects the spontaneous nucleation, not the interaction between the particles, and it is demonstrated that the nucleation process can be numerically reproduced using the rate equations.