Potent ice nucleating organic crystals display an increase in nucleation efficiency with
pressure and memory effect after pressurization that set them apart from inorganic …

Organic molecules such as steroids or amino acids form crystals that can facilitate the
formation of ice–arguably the most important phase transition on earth. However, the origin …

Heterogeneous nucleation of ice induced by organic materials is of fundamental importance
for climate, biology, and industry. Among organic ice-nucleating surfaces, monolayers of …

The freezing of water into ice is a key process that is still not fully understood. It generally
requires an impurity of some description to initiate the heterogeneous nucleation of the ice …

What makes a material a good ice nucleating agent? Despite the importance of
heterogeneous ice nucleation to a variety of fields, from cloud science to microbiology, major …

Monolayers of the long-chain alcohols on water promote nucleation of ice. In order to
determine the minimum size of crystalline alcohol monolayer domains that induce ice …

The control of assembly and crystallization of molecules is becoming increasingly important
in chemistry, engineering, and materials sciences. Crystallization is also central to …

Ice crystals in the atmosphere nucleate from supercooled liquid water and grow by vapor
uptake. The structure of the ice polymorph grown has strong impact on the morphology and …

The microscopic mechanisms controlling heterogeneous ice nucleation are complex and
remain poorly understood. Although good ice nucleators are generally believed to match ice …

We present a molecular dynamics simulation study of ice growth from supercooled water in
contact with:(i) the basal plane of hexagonal ice and (ii) the (111) plane of cubic ice. We …