Ice accumulation on solid surfaces can incur irretrievable losses and catastrophic affairs in
daily life. These issues can be addressed and strategically alleviated by adopting effective …

Freezing can maintain a low‐temperature environment inside food, reducing water activity
and preventing microorganism growth. However, when ice crystals are large, present in high …

Antifreeze molecules allow organisms to survive in subzero environments. Antifreeze
glycoproteins (AFGPs), produced by polar fish, are the most potent inhibitors of ice …

Organisms that thrive at cold temperatures produce ice-binding proteins to manage the
nucleation and growth of ice. Bacterial ice-nucleating proteins (INP) are typically large and …

When an ice crystal is born from liquid water, two key changes occur:(i) The molecules order
and (ii) the mobility of the molecules drops as they adopt their lattice positions. Most …

In this work, we use large-scale molecular dynamics simulations coupled to free energy
calculations to identify for the first time a limit of stability (spinodal) and a change in the …

Ice recrystallization inhibitors (IRI) are of critical importance in biology, cryopreservation of
cells and organs, and frozen foods. Antifreeze glycoproteins (AFGPs) are the most potent …

Clathrate hydrates can spontaneously form under typical conditions found in oil and gas
pipelines. The agglomeration of clathrates into large solid masses plugs the pipelines …

Cold acclimatized organisms produce antifreeze proteins that prevent ice growth and
recrystallization at subfreezing conditions. Flatness and rigidity of the ice-binding sites of …

The nucleation of ice is vital in cloud physics and impacts on a broad range of matters from
the cryopreservation of food, tissues, organs, and stem cells to the prevention of icing on …