Microcanonical molecular simulations of methane hydrate nucleation and growth: evidence that direct nucleation to sI hydrate is among the multiple nucleation pathways

Methane hydrate with a high degree of crystallinity of structure I directly forms via high-precision constant energy MD simulations.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Main Authors: Zhang, Zhengcai, Walsh, Matthew R., Guo, Guang-Jun
Other Authors: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2015
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c5cp00098j
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2015/CP/C5CP00098J
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Summary:Methane hydrate with a high degree of crystallinity of structure I directly forms via high-precision constant energy MD simulations.