History of discovery and environmental role of ice nucleating bacteria

S Lindow - Phytopathology®, 2023 - Am Phytopath Society
The phenomenon of biological ice nucleation that is exhibited by a variety of bacteria is a
fascinating phenotype, which has been shown to incite frost damage to frost-sensitive plants …

Low-dimensional and confined ice

B Cui, P Xu, X Li, K Fan, X Guo… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Owing to its unique structure, morphology, and crystal quality, low-dimensional (LD) ice has
attracted increasing attention in recent years. With a size (at least in one dimension) …

[HTML][HTML] Nucleation and growth of crystalline ices from amorphous ices

CM Tonauer, LR Fidler, J Giebelmann… - The Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We here review mostly experimental and some computational work devoted to nucleation in
amorphous ices. In fact, there are only a handful of studies in which nucleation and growth in …

Nucleation curves of ice in the presence of nucleation promoters

X Zhang, N Maeda - Chemical Engineering Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Ice nucleation plays an important role in many fields like global environment, biology, food
engineering and so on. It also lays foundation for further studies in the nucleation of clathrate …

Effects of pH on Ice Nucleation by the α-Alumina (0001) Surface

Y Ren, A Soni, A Kumar, AK Bertram… - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Mineral dust particles can cause heterogeneous ice nucleation in cloud droplets, and α-
alumina (α-Al2O3) is one component of mineral dust particles found in the atmosphere …

Statistical modeling of monthly and seasonal Michigan snowfall based on machine learning: A multiscale approach

L Meng, L Zhu - Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Snow is an important component of Earth's climate system, and snowfall intensity and
variation often significantly impact society, the environment, and ecosystems. Understanding …

Expression of Ice Nucleation Protein in Bacillus amyloliquefaciens and Its Application in Food Freezing Process

R Song, C Jiang, J Zhu, J Liu, L Zhang, J Zuo, W Zheng… - Foods, 2023 - mdpi.com
To produce food-grade ice nucleators, a 3.77 kb ice nucleation gene (iceE) isolated from
Pantoea agglomerans (Erwinia herbicola) was introduced into the Gram-positive …

Nucleation curves of ice in quasi–free water droplets

X Zhang, H Li, N Maeda - Chemical Engineering Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Ice nucleation is important in global climate change and could also have implications to
nucleation of more complex systems like clathrate hydrates. A new setup for experimental …

Nucleation of CO2 Hydrate in Quasi-Free Droplets of Dilute Electrolytes

X Zhang, H Li, N Maeda - Energy & Fuels, 2024 - ACS Publications
Salts are known to be thermodynamic inhibitors of gas hydrates at high concentrations by
lowering the activity of water and shifting the phase boundary of gas hydrates to lower …

Comparing brute force to transition path sampling for gas hydrate nucleation with a flat interface: comments on time reversal symmetry

MR Walsh - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Fluid to solid nucleation is often investigated with the rare event method transition path
sampling (TPS). I claim that the inherent irreversibility of solid nucleation, even at stationary …