The nucleation of crystals in liquids is one of nature's most ubiquitous phenomena, playing
an important role in areas such as climate change and the production of drugs. As the early …

Aerosol and aqueous particles are ubiquitous in Earth's atmosphere and play key roles in
geochemical processes such as natural chemical cycles, cloud and fog formation, air …

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 …

What makes a material a good ice nucleating agent? Despite the importance of
heterogeneous ice nucleation to a variety of fields, from cloud science to microbiology, major …

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

The heterogeneous ice nucleation rate coefficient (j het) of water droplets coated with a
monolayer of 1-nonadecanol was determined from multiple freezing/melting cycles …

The microscopic mechanisms controlling heterogeneous ice nucleation are complex and
remain poorly understood. Although good ice nucleators are generally believed to match ice …

Publications of recent years dealing with laboratory experiments of immersion freezing
reveal uncertainties about the fundamentals of heterogeneous freezing nucleation. While it …

High-speed monitoring of the freezing process of freely suspended supercooled pure and
salty water droplets is reported for the first time. Combined visual (VIS) and infrared (IR) …

Surfactants are surface-active molecules or ions that can often be found at the surface of
atmospheric aerosol particles. Some surfactants, such as biomolecules in marine aerosol …