STUDY OF THE INSTANTANEOUS NUCLEATION PHENOMENA IN SOFT MATTER SYSTEMS BY MEANS OF MONTE CARLO SIMULATION

In this paper, we investigate the process of phase transformation in polymeric materials by imposing instantaneous nucleation conditions in the employed Monte Carlo type simulations. We calculated the overall crystallization rate constants and the Avrami indices for various simulation circumstances and the obtained results were equivalent with those predicted by the Avrami equation. The dependence of the crystallization rate constant on the growth velocity and concentration of the nuclei was also investigated and a comparison was made with the already existing theory.