Conspectus The visualization of data is indispensable in scientific research, from the early
stages when human insight forms to the final step of communicating results. In …

There are at least three fundamental states of matter, depending upon temperature and
pressure: gas, liquid, and solid (crystal). These states are separated by first-order phase …

We present a study of homogeneous crystal nucleation from metastable fluids via the
seeding technique for four different systems: mW water, Tosi-Fumi NaCl, Lennard-Jones …

When a system undergoes a transition from a liquid to a solid phase, it passes through
multiple intermediate structures before reaching the final state. However, our knowledge on …

This review describes some important physical characteristics of the pathways (ie,
dynamical processes) by which molecular, nanoscale, and micrometer-scale self-assembly …

Despite its fundamental and technological importance, a microscopic understanding of the
crystallization process is still elusive. By computer simulations of the hard-sphere model we …

We introduce a new fingerprint that allows distinguishing between liquid-like and solid-like
atomic environments. This fingerprint is based on an approximate expression for the entropy …

We introduce a simple, fast, and easy to implement unsupervised learning algorithm for
detecting different local environments on a single-particle level in colloidal systems. In this …

Colloidal model systems allow studying crystallization kinetics under fairly ideal conditions,
with rather well-characterized pair interactions and minimized external influences. In …

Rare events are processes that occur upon the emergence of unlikely fluctuations. Unlike
what their name suggests, rare events are fairly ubiquitous in nature, as the occurrence of …