Classical nucleation and crystal growth theories describe how nuclei form, become stable
after reaching a critical size and then enlarge through monomer attachment. More than two …

Crystallization abounds in nature and industrial practice. A plethora of indispensable
products ranging from agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals to battery materials are …

Crystal nucleation is relevant across the domains of fundamental and applied sciences.
However, in many cases, its mechanism remains unclear due to a lack of temporal or spatial …

Optoelectronic properties of anisotropic crystals vary with direction requiring that the
orientation of molecular organic semiconductor crystals is controlled in optoelectronic device …

Many chemical reactions go through a cascade of events in which a series of metastable
intermediates appear, and crystal nucleation is no exception. Although the consensus on the …

Focused irradiation with ultrashort laser pulses realized the fine spatiotemporal control of ice
crystallization in supercooled water. An effective multiphoton excitation at the laser focus …

There is mounting evidence that crystal nucleation from supersaturated solution involves the
formation and reorganization of prenucleation clusters, contradicting classical nucleation …

Laser-induced crystallization through optical trapping offers precise and spatiotemporal
control of crystallization kinetics at the microscale region. Here, we demonstrate the optical …

Urquidi et al.(1) describe the use of a laser to induce nucleation through a process referred
to as optical trapping induced crystallization, while simultaneously measuring Raman …

A frozen aqueous solution was integrated into a microfluidic device as a size-tunable
separation field for the size-selective separation of micro/nanospheres. The width of the ice …