| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/S21472/01 |
| Title: |
Molecular assembly in nucleating solutions: a combined neutron scattering and molecular modelling approach |
| Principal Investigator: |
Davey, Professor R |
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| Department: |
Chem Eng and Analytical Science |
| Organisation: |
University of Manchester, The |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 June 2003 |
Ends: |
30 September 2006 |
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326,950
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Food and Drink |
| Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology |
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The existence of a relationship between molecular aggregation in fluids and the process of crystal nucleation is a topic of fundamental scientific and technological importance. The development, over the last decade of combined neutron scattering and empirical potential structure refinement (EPSR) for the study of solvent-solute, solute-solute and solvent-solvent interactions in solution at last gives the opportunity of determining the precise, time-averaged, structure of a metastable, supersaturated solution. By using such data as the starting point for molecular dynamics simulations it will then be possible to derive a realistic picture of the time resolved behaviour of a solution undergoing nucleation. The overall aim is to generate significant new understanding of the structural aspects of the nucleation process. This new, molecular level understanding will be essential for the development of new options for the control of processes involving crystallisation and solidification which are used widely thorughout the chemcial and process industries.
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