https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2014-02097-x
Review
Density functional theory of heterogeneous crystallization
1 Institut für Theoretische Physik II: Weiche Materie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
2 Institute for Theoretical Physics, Universiteit Utrecht, Leuvenlaan 4, 3584 CE Utrecht, The Netherlands
3 Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Staudtstraße 7, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
a e-mail: schmiedeberg@thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de
b e-mail: hlowen@thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de
Received: 13 December 2013
Revised: 10 January 2014
Published online: 28 February 2014
This mini-review summarizes recent progress in describing heterogeneous crystallization processes and microstructure formation within microscopic classical density functional theory (DFT). After outlining the basic features of DFT, we discuss several applications ranging from the structure and thermodynamics of fluid-crystal interfaces for hard sphere and Yukawa systems to dynamical phenomena such as crystal growth on structured substrates and induced by externally imposed seeds.
© EDP Sciences, Springer-Verlag, 2014
