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 …

Frozen water has a quasi-liquid layer at its surface that exists even well below the bulk
melting temperature; the formation of this layer is termed premelting. The nature of the …

Liquid water's isothermal compressibility and isobaric heat capacity, and the magnitude of its
thermal expansion coefficient, increase sharply on cooling below the equilibrium freezing …

One of water's unsolved puzzles is the question of what determines the lowest temperature
to which it can be cooled before freezing to ice. The supercooled liquid has been probed …

Ice is present everywhere on Earth and has an essential role in several areas, such as cloud
physics, climate change and cryopreservation. The role of ice is determined by its formation …

Among all of the freezing transitions, that of water into ice is probably the most relevant to
biology, physics, geology, or atmospheric science. In this work, we investigate …

The nucleation and growth of clathrate hydrates of a hydrophobic guest comparable to
methane or carbon dioxide are studied by molecular dynamics simulations of two-phase …

Atmospheric aerosols can promote the heterogeneous nucleation of ice, impacting the
radiative properties of clouds and Earth's climate. The experimental investigation of …

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 …

Clathrate hydrates and ice I are the most abundant crystals of water. The study of their
nucleation, growth, and decomposition using molecular simulations requires an accurate …