If a rough surface disrupts the crystalline ordering of solids, ... Matsumoto, M., Saito, S. & Ohmine, I. Molecular dynamics simulation of the ice nucleation and growth process leading to water ...

There is much evidence that nucleation of liquid droplets from vapor as well as nucleation of crystals from both solution and vapor occurs preferentially in surface defects such as pits and grooves.

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.

Water freezes and turns to ice when brought in contact with a cold surface -- a well-known fact. However, the exact process and its microscopic details remained elusive up to know.

Deposition of water on aerosol particles contributes to ice cloud formation in the atmosphere with implications for the water cycle and climate on Earth. The heterogeneous ice nucleation process is ...

Additionally, based on analyzing of freezing of water droplets with the solid surface, other part of our study is to investigate of how the surface characteristics including the surface wettability, ...

Heterogeneous Nucleation: The process by which ice formation is initiated on a foreign surface or particle, in contrast to homogeneous nucleation which occurs in pure water.

At atmospheric pressure, pure liquid water can supercool to temperatures below -40 0 C before freezing. However, most naturally-occurring ice nucleation, such as in cloud water droplets, occurs ...

The team witnessed a process known as ice nucleation in unprecedented detail, taking time-lapse movies of the first few seconds when a particle attracts water vapor, forming ice crystals that ...

The appearance of ice crystals in the atmosphere is an important component of our planet’s climate. Ice crystals usually form on solid particles suspended in the atmosphere, where a water droplet can ...