Nucleation triggering methods in supercooled phase change materials (PCM), a review

N Beaupere, U Soupremanien, L Zalewski - Thermochimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
Supercooling is an undesired property of phase change materials due to the poorly
predictable occurrence of crystallization during cooling. For such situations, the stored latent …

Review on the control of ice nucleation by ultrasound waves, electric and magnetic fields

M Dalvi-Isfahan, N Hamdami, E Xanthakis… - Journal of Food …, 2017 - Elsevier
Freezing is the most popular and widely used food preservation method of the modern
times. The freezing process of food matrices is related to their high water content and its …

Ion‐aerosol‐cloud processes in the lower atmosphere

RG Harrison, KS Carslaw - Reviews of Geophysics, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Natural terrestrial radioactivity and cosmic ray ionization lead to the formation of air ions and
charged aerosol particles even away from regions of active charge separation, such as in …

Winter is coming: the future of cryopreservation

S Bojic, A Murray, BL Bentley, R Spindler, P Pawlik… - BMC biology, 2021 - Springer
The preservative effects of low temperature on biological materials have been long
recognised, and cryopreservation is now widely used in biomedicine, including in organ …

Effects of dipole polarization of water molecules on ice formation under an electrostatic field

S Wei, X Xiaobin, Z Hong, X Chuanxiang - Cryobiology, 2008 - Elsevier
Experiments were carried out to clarify the effects of an electrostatic field on ice formation.
Distilled water was used as the test sample and was kept in a special container and cooled …

Electro-Freezing of Supercooled Water Is Induced by Hydrated Al3+ and Mg2+ Ions: Experimental and Theoretical Studies

L Fuhrman Javitt, S Kalita, KD Dubey… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
This work reports that the octahedral hydrated Al3+ and Mg2+ ions operate within
electrolytic cells as kosmotropic (long-range order-making)“ice makers” of supercooled …

Heterogeneous ice nucleation induced by electric fields

JY Yan, GN Patey - The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2011 - ACS Publications
Heterogeneous ice nucleation is an important phenomenon in the physical environment
influencing atmospheric and biological processes. Despite this relevance, the mechanism of …

Electric-field induced entropic effects in liquid water

V Conti Nibali, S Maiti, F Saija, M Heyden… - The Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Externally applied electric fields in liquid water can induce a plethora of effects with wide
implications in electrochemistry and hydrogenbased technologies. Although some effort has …

Externally Applied Electric Fields up to 1.6 × 105 V/m Do Not Affect the Homogeneous Nucleation of Ice in Supercooled Water

CA Stan, SKY Tang, KJM Bishop… - The Journal of Physical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
The freezing of water can initiate at electrically conducting electrodes kept at a high electric
potential or at charged electrically insulating surfaces. The microscopic mechanisms of …

Tuning ice nucleation with supercharged polypeptides

H Yang, C Ma, K Li, K Liu, M Loznik, R Teeuwen… - Advanced …, 2016 - research.rug.nl
Supercharged unfolded polypeptides (SUPs) are exploited for controlling ice nucleation via
tuning the nature of charge and charge density of SUPs. The results show that positively …