There is growing evidence for the kinetics of homogeneous nucleation being a multi-step process. Colloid experiments and simulations now suggest that heterogeneous nucleation is no exception.
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Ganapathy, R., Sood, A. Brought to the surface. Nature Phys 13, 421–422 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys4057
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