Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 115, No. 21 (May 22, 2018), pp. 5383-5388 (6 pages) In supercooled water, ice nucleation is a stochastic process ...

Heterogeneous nucleation at solid-liquid interfaces in liquid metals is a complex yet fundamentally important phenomenon that governs the initial stages of crystallisation in metallurgical processes.

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.

Researchers from IBM and Purdue University have discovered that tiny structures called silicon nanowires might be ideal for manufacturing in future computers and consumer electronics because they form ...

New research published in Science Advances documents for the first time ever the early processes of aerosol formation. Aerosols, which are suspensions of fine solid particles or liquid droplets in a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The process of solid-state nucleation in highly supersaturated solid solutions has been investigated on the atomic scale by a combination of ...

Crystals form in storm clouds, metals, drug molecules, and even in diseased tissues. Despite their ubiquity, scientists still don’t fully understand what happens when a liquid solution first starts to ...

Researchers conducted an experiment to investigate the initial steps in the formation of aerosols. Their findings are now aiding efforts to better understand and model that process - for example, the ...

Whether it is clouds or champagne bubbles forming, or the early onset of Alzheimer's disease or Type 2 diabetes, a common mechanism is at work: nucleation processes. Nucleation processes are a first ...