Cooling crystallization of small organic molecules from solution is an important operation for
the separation and purification of drug products. In this research, shear-induced nucleation …

Crystallization represents a long-standing problem in statistical physics and is of great
relevance for many practical and industrial applications. It often occurs in the presence of …

Crystallization is one of the major steps in industrial production and environmental settings.
According to thermodynamics and nucleation theories, the crystallization kinetics can be …

We study the effect of shear flow on homogeneous crystal nucleation, using Brownian
dynamics simulations in combination with an umbrella sampling-like technique. The …

An experimental set-up where a polymer sample is being sheared between two parallel
planes has been studied. Numerical simulations of the development up to the crystallite …

Large, oriented single crystals may be obtained from shear melts of colloidal particles after
nucleation at the container walls. We are here interested in the processes occurring during …

Shear-induced melting and crystallization were investigated by confocal microscopy in
concentrated colloidal suspensions of hard-sphere-like particles. Both silica and …

We use Brownian dynamics simulations in combination with the umbrella sampling
technique to study the effect of shear flow on homogeneous crystal nucleation. We find that a …

Hard sphere colloids crystallise at large volume fractions. However, crystallisation is
suppressed in the presence of large polydispersities. We investigate the effect of …

We studied the competition between heterogeneous and homogeneous nucleation of an
aqueous suspension of charged colloidal spheres close to the container walls. Samples of …