Abstract
The kinetics of nucleation of a core-shell composite nucleus that consists of a core of stable final phase surrounded by a wetting layer of an intermediate metastable phase is studied using the linked-flux model where the nucleation flux is considered in the two-dimensional space of stable and metastable components. The steady-state solution of the Fokker-Planck equation is considered not only in the size and composition space but also in the component space. It is shown that the kinetics of critical nucleus at the saddle point is more appropriately characterized in the size and composition space, while the kinetics of the post-critical nucleus is more appropriately described in the component space. Although both the free-energy landscape and the reaction rates play decisive role to determine the kinetics of nucleation at the saddle point, the details of the free energy landscape are irrelevant to the kinetics of the post critical nucleus.
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