Crystal nucleation is a ubiquitous phenomenon and highly relevant to many industrial and technological applications (e.g., bone formation, pharmaceuticals, meteorology, and metallurgy) 1,2,3. In glass ...
Fig. 3: Experimental observation of the same nuclei undergoing growth, fluctuation, dissolution, merging and/or division at 4D atomic resolution. Next, we analysed the order parameter distribution in ...
Scientists from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have recently discovered a non-classical nucleation process that can greatly facilitate ice formation on foreign surfaces.