A multitude of phenomena—such as the chemical enrichment of the Universe, the mass
spectrum of planetary nebulae, white dwarfs and gravitational wave progenitors, the …

Gas phase nucleation is a universal phenomenon that plays a crucial role in both natural
settings and industrial processes. Despite more than 100 years' work to decipher this highly …

This overview paper presents ATOMIUM, a Large Programme in Cycle 6 with the Atacama
Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The goal of ATOMIUM is to understand the …

Context. Aluminium oxide (alumina; Al 2 O 3) is a promising candidate as a primary dust
condensate in the atmospheres of oxygen-rich evolved stars. Therefore, alumina …

Silica grains are ubiquitous in both circumstellar media and rocky bodies and are vital to
cosmic chemical processes, such as surface-catalyzed reactions and lunar water …

Reactions of SiO molecules have been postulated to initiate efficient formation of silicate
dust particles in outflows around dying (AGB) stars. Both OH radicals and H2O molecules …

We present a universal method for the large-scale prediction of the atomic structure of
clusters. Our algorithm performs the joint evolutionary search for all clusters in a given area …

Context. The formation of inorganic cloud particles takes place in several atmospheric
environments, including those of warm, hot, rocky, and gaseous exoplanets, brown dwarfs …

This paper reports on computational studies of gas-phase reactions of SiO and Si2O2. The
oxidation of SiO can initiate efficient formation of silica or silicate dust particles in a wide …

Magnesium-rich silicates are ubiquitous both terrestrially and astronomically, where they are
often present as small particles. Nanosized Mg-rich silicate particles are likely to be …