Thermodynamics of Al3 Nano‐Clusters in an Aluminum Solid Solution

An accurate thermodynamic description of nano-clusters in a solid solution is a pre-requisite for a reliable predictive homogeneous nucleation model. Unfortunately, the classical textbook description which consists in describing the free energy as a sum of a volume energy part and a surface energy parts with constant interface energy fails to capture the thermodynamic of small clusters at high enough temperatures.