The interfaces of neat water and aqueous solutions play a prominent role in many
technological processes and in the environment. Examples of aqueous interfaces are …

Frozen water has a quasi-liquid layer at its surface that exists even well below the bulk
melting temperature; the formation of this layer is termed premelting. The nature of the …

The freezing of water affects the processes that determine Earth's climate. Therefore,
accurate weather and climate forecasts hinge on good predictions of ice nucleation rates …

Clathrate hydrates and ice I are the most abundant crystals of water. The study of their
nucleation, growth, and decomposition using molecular simulations requires an accurate …

Heterogeneous nucleation of ice induced by organic materials is of fundamental importance
for climate, biology, and industry. Among organic ice-nucleating surfaces, monolayers of …

Identifying local structure in molecular simulations is of utmost importance. The most
common existing approach to identify local structure is to calculate some geometrical …

Experiments and computer simulations have established that liquid water's surfaces can
deviate in important ways from familiar bulk behavior. Even in the simplest case of an air …

Since the pioneering prediction of surface melting by Michael Faraday, it has been widely
accepted that thin water layers, called quasi-liquid layers (QLLs), homogeneously and …

Crystallization of ice from deeply supercooled water and amorphous ices–a process of
fundamental importance in the atmosphere, interstellar space, and cryobiology–results in …

The freezing of water is greatly influenced by the ice–water interfacial free energy. Yet, no
consistent experimental measures of this thermodynamic parameter can be found. In this …