Molecular simulation approaches to study crystal nucleation from solutions: Theoretical considerations and computational challenges

AR Finney, M Salvalaglio - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Nucleation is the initial step in the formation of crystalline materials from solutions. Various
factors, such as environmental conditions, composition, and external fields, can influence its …

[HTML][HTML] Simulations of activities, solubilities, transport properties, and nucleation rates for aqueous electrolyte solutions

AZ Panagiotopoulos - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
This article reviews recent molecular simulation studies of “collective” properties of aqueous
electrolyte solutions, specifically free energies and activity coefficients, solubilities …

[HTML][HTML] Ab initio phase diagram and nucleation of gallium

H Niu, L Bonati, PM Piaggi, M Parrinello - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Elemental gallium possesses several intriguing properties, such as a low melting point, a
density anomaly and an electronic structure in which covalent and metallic features coexist …

Role of stacking disorder in ice nucleation

L Lupi, A Hudait, B Peters, M Grünwald… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
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 …

Current state and future perspectives of printable organic and perovskite solar cells

F Li, FR Lin, AKY Jen - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Photovoltaic technology presents a sustainable solution to address the escalating global
energy consumption and a reliable strategy for achieving net‐zero carbon emissions by …

Ice nucleation efficiency of hydroxylated organic surfaces is controlled by their structural fluctuations and mismatch to ice

Y Qiu, N Odendahl, A Hudait, R Mason… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Heterogeneous nucleation of ice induced by organic materials is of fundamental importance
for climate, biology, and industry. Among organic ice-nucleating surfaces, monolayers of …

Solubility of methane in water: Some useful results for hydrate nucleation

J Grabowska, S Blazquez, E Sanz… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In this paper, the solubility of methane in water along the 400 bar isobar is determined by
computer simulations using the TIP4P/Ice force field for water and a simple LJ model for …

[HTML][HTML] Freezing point depression of salt aqueous solutions using the Madrid-2019 model

CP Lamas, C Vega, EG Noya - The Journal of chemical physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Salt aqueous solutions are relevant in many fields, ranging from biological systems to
seawater. Thus, the availability of a force-field that is able to reproduce the thermodynamic …

Double-Shock Compression Pathways from Diamond to BC8 Carbon

J Shi, Z Liang, J Wang, S Pan, C Ding, Y Wang… - Physical review …, 2023 - APS
Carbon is one of the most important elements for both industrial applications and
fundamental research, including life, physics, chemistry, materials, and even planetary …

[HTML][HTML] A physically constrained classical description of the homogeneous nucleation of ice in water

T Koop, BJ Murray - The Journal of chemical physics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Liquid water can persist in a supercooled state to below 238 K in the Earth's atmosphere, a
temperature range where homogeneous nucleation becomes increasingly probable …