Atmospheric ice nucleation is crucial for global precipitation and affects the structure, lifetime
and reflectivity of clouds, thereby impacting climate. Ice nucleates in various ways from …

Frozen water has a quasi-liquid layer at its surface that exists even well below the bulk
melting temperature; the formation of this layer is termed premelting. The nature of the …

Due to their measurable crystallization kinetics, oxide glass-formers are adequate systems
for evaluating theoretical approaches to describe and predict crystal nucleation dynamics …

Atomic structure dictates the performance of all materials systems; the characteristic of
disordered materials is the significance of spatial and temporal fluctuations on composition …

Water molecules can arrange into a liquid with complex hydrogen-bond networks and at
least 17 experimentally confirmed ice phases with enormous structural diversity. It remains a …

Bacterial ice nucleators (INs) are among the most effective ice nucleators known and are
relevant for freezing processes in agriculture, the atmosphere, and the biosphere. Their …

Hydrophobic interactions are involved in and believed to be the fundamental driving force of
many chemical and biological phenomena in aqueous environments. This review focuses …

Crystal nucleation is one of the most fundamental processes in the physical sciences and
almost always occurs heterogeneously with the aid of a nucleating substrate. No example of …

Understanding the thermodynamic stability and metastability of materials can help us to, for
example, gauge whether crystalline polymorphs in pharmaceutical formulations are likely to …

Water in nature predominantly freezes with the help of foreign materials through a process
known as heterogeneous ice nucleation. Although this effect was exploited more than seven …