Nucleationandgrowth
Nucleation and growth is a fundamental process in materials science and chemistry that describes the formation of a new thermodynamic phase from a metastable parent phase. This process is crucial for phenomena such as crystallization, precipitation, and the formation of new solid phases during solid-state transformations. It is a two-stage mechanism.
The first stage is nucleation, which is the initial formation of small, stable clusters of the new
The second stage is growth, where the nucleated clusters increase in size by the addition of more