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 …

There has been uninterrupted interest in supercooled water ever since the pioneering
experiments of Speedy and Angell revealed sharp increases in this substance's response …

The sustenance of life depends on the high degree of organization that prevails through
different levels of living organisms, from subcellular structures such as biomolecular …

Rare events are processes that occur upon the emergence of unlikely fluctuations. Unlike
what their name suggests, rare events are fairly ubiquitous in nature, as the occurrence of …

Most ice in nature forms because of impurities which boost the exceedingly low nucleation
rate of pure supercooled water. However, the microscopic details of ice nucleation on these …

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 …

Some liquids, if cooled rapidly enough to avoid crystallization, can be frozen into a
nonergodic glassy state. The tendency for a material to form a glass when quenched is …

Ice nucleation is a crucial process in nature and industries; however, the role of the free
surface of water in this process remains unclear. To address this, we investigate the …

The formation of ice affects many aspects of our everyday life as well as important
technologies such as cryotherapy and cryopreservation. Foreign substances almost always …

We used molecular dynamics simulations and the path sampling technique known as
forward flux sampling to study homogeneous nucleation of NaCl crystals from …