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Styrene miniemulsion polymerizations stabilized by sodium lauryl sulfate in combination with a reactive costabilizer, lauryl methacrylate (LMA) or stearyl methacrylate (SMA), were studied. A small amount of extremely hydrophobic dye was incorporated into monomer droplets (10 2 nm in diameter) to investigate particle nucleation and growth mechanisms. In addition to monomer droplet nucleation, particle nuclei generated in the aqueous phase (homogeneous nucleation) also play an important role in both LMA‐ and SMA‐containing polymerization systems. The way that these two nucleation mechanisms compete with each other is closely related to the water solubility of the costabilizer (LMA SMA).
The fraction of latex particles originating from homogeneous nucleation increases with decreasing hydrophobicity of the costabilizer. Zeta potential data of latex particles and the molecular weight and molecular weight distribution of emulsion polymers provide supporting evidence for the proposed competitive particle nucleation and growth mechanisms.© 2002 Society of Chemical Industry.
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To my understanding, nucleation is essentially the formation of a new phase. This can be heterogeneous (at boundaries and surfaces) or homogeneous (throughout the bulk). Growth is when these nucleii grow into full sized grains at the expense of the earlier phase.It seems that you are also asking about their relations to temperature.
If there is no undercooling, the driving force for a new phase to form is low, so nucleation is low. So nucleation rate increases as you decrease temperature, but if the temperature is too low, diffusion is inhibited and nucleation is prevented. That accounts for the maximum nucleation rate at an intermediate temperature.
Growth of the crystal is dependent on diffusion as well so growth rate increases with temperature. However, at temperatures that are too high, IIRC there aren't enough surfaces to grow and results in a decrease in growth rate.
My understanding is that they're two mechanisms that work together during phase transformations. When phase 1 is transforming into phase 2 at its boundary, nuclei of phase 2 begin to form.
This is the nucleation of the new phase. Once the critical radius size of the nuclei is reached, r star, growth happens because Gibbs free energy decreases and the nuclei begin to grow and take over the remaining phase 1. If the nucleation never reaches r star the mixture will return to phase 1.In short, nucleation is step one of phase transformation, growth is step two.I'm only an undergrad so take this with a grain of salt.
Let's say that a material currently in its A-phase is brought to a temperature at which its B-phase is stable instead. Thermodynamically, there is an advantage for it to transform from A to B, i.e. A decrease in Gibbs energy proportional to the volume transformed. At the same time though the formation of a new interface between A and B causes an increase in energy proportional to the interface area. Long story short the total energy balance leads to the existence of a critical nucleus size. For B nuclei above the critical size it is more energetically favourable to grow, while smaller ones shrink and disappear. Once a stable B nucleus is formed by random thermal motion of the atoms ( i.e.
Nucleation), atoms nearby will start to attach to it taking up the new crystalline arrangement, leading to an increase in size of the nucleus ( i.e. Nucleation rate increases with decreasing temperature (below the transformation temperature) because the volumetric decrease of the Gibbs energy becomes more and more significant.
Growth rate on the other hand follows the opposite trend (still below the transformation temperature) because at higher temperature the atoms are more mobile and can diffuse to the growing nucleus more easily.TL,DR:nucleation: formation by random thermal motion of a nucleus above the critical sizegrowth: attachment of atoms to a stable nucleus.