On the validity of Avrami formalism in primary crystallization

Calorimetric data of primary crystallization is usually interpreted in the framework of the Kolmogorov Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 1, 355 1937 , Johnson and Mehl Trans. AIME 135, 416 1939 , and Avrami J. Chem. Phys. 7, 1103 1939 ; 8, 212 1940 ; 9, 177 1941 KJMA theory. However, while the KJMA theory assum...

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Autores: Bruna Escuer, Pere|||0000-0002-7411-1278, Crespo Artiaga, Daniel|||0000-0003-1743-2400, González Cinca, Ricardo|||0000-0003-3920-9103, Pineda Soler, Eloi|||0000-0002-1871-3848
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2006
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/22789
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/22789
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Crystallization
cristallization
Cristal·lització
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Física::Termodinàmica::Canvis d'estat
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Sumario:Calorimetric data of primary crystallization is usually interpreted in the framework of the Kolmogorov Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 1, 355 1937 , Johnson and Mehl Trans. AIME 135, 416 1939 , and Avrami J. Chem. Phys. 7, 1103 1939 ; 8, 212 1940 ; 9, 177 1941 KJMA theory. However, while the KJMA theory assumes random nucleation and exhaustion of space by direct impingement, primary crystallization is usually driven by diffusion-controlled growth with soft impingement between the growing crystallites. This results in a stop of the growth before the space is fully crystallized and induces nonrandom nucleation. In this work, phase-field simulations are used to check the validity of different kinetic models for describing primary crystallization kinetics. The results show that KJMA theory provides a good approximation to the soft-impingement and nonrandom nucleation effects. Moreover, these effects are not responsible of the slowing down of the kinetics found experimentally in the primary crystallization of glasses.