Interfacial reactions drive all elemental cycling on Earth and play pivotal roles in human
activities such as agriculture, water purification, energy production and storage …

The interaction between minerals and water is manifold and complex: the mineral surface
can be (de) protonated by water, thereby changing its charge; mineral ions dissolved into …

Predicting the formation of ice in the atmosphere presents one of the great challenges in
physical sciences with important implications for the chemistry and composition of the …

Bacterial ice nucleators (INs) are among the most effective ice nucleators known and are
relevant for freezing processes in agriculture, the atmosphere, and the biosphere. Their …

Understanding the formation of ice from supercooled water on a surface is a matter of
fundamental importance and general use. Kinetics of ice nucleation and ice growth on solid …

Potassium-containing feldspars (K-feldspars) have been considered as key mineral dusts for
ice nucleation (IN) in mixed-phase clouds. To investigate the effect of solutes on their IN …

Aluminosilicates and quartz constitute the majority of airborne mineral dust. Despite
similarities in structures and surfaces they differ greatly in terms of their ice nucleation (IN) …

Ice-nucleating particles (INPs) are of atmospheric importance because they catalyse the
freezing of supercooled cloud droplets, strongly affecting the lifetime and radiative properties …

Heterogeneous ice nucleation (HIN) triggered by mineral surfaces typically exposed to
various ions can have a significant impact on the regional atmosphere and climate …

Divergent ice nucleation (IN) efficiencies of quartz, an important component of atmospheric
mineral dust, have been reported in previous studies. We show here that quartz particles …