Nucleation and growth are critical steps in crystallization, which plays an important role in
determining crystal structure, size, morphology, and purity. Therefore, understanding the …

Nucleation in atomic crystallization remains poorly understood, despite advances in
classical nucleation theory. The nucleation process has been described to involve a …

Colloidal nanomaterials of metals, metal oxides, and metal chalcogenides have attracted
great attention in the past decade owing to their potential applications in optoelectronics …

With remarkable achievements in spatial resolution and its derived analytical techniques,
transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has been capable of probing enriched information …

Lithium metal has been considered an ideal anode for high-energy rechargeable Li
batteries, although its nucleation and growth process remains mysterious, especially at the …

The evolution of prenucleation clusters in the prenucleation stage of colloidal semiconductor
quantum dots (QDs) has remained unexplored. With CdTe as a model system, we show that …

Graphene liquid cell electron microscopy (GLC-EM), a cutting-edge liquid-phase EM
technique, has become a powerful tool to directly visualize wet biological samples and the …

Elucidating the water-induced degradation mechanism of quantum-sized semiconductor
nanocrystals is an important prerequisite for their practical application because they are …

Crystallization via phase transformation of a metastable precursor is a ubiquitous and
effective strategy used by living systems to direct the growth of crystalline nanomaterials with …

Ubiquitous crystals play an important role in our daily lives. Recent studies on the properties
and formation of crystals have proven the attachment of particles ranging from ion pairs to …