Most metallic elements have a crystal structure that is either body-centered cubic (bcc), face-
centered close packed, or hexagonal close packed. If the bcc lattice is the …

Rapid advances in atomistic and phase-field modeling techniques as well as new
experiments have led to major progress in solidification science during the first years of this …

Hard-sphere crystallization has been widely investigated over the last six decades by means
of colloidal suspensions and numerical methods. However, some aspects of its nucleation …

The effect of the cooling rate on the solidification process of liquid aluminium is studied
using a large-scale molecular dynamics method. It is found that there are various types of …

Just over ninety years ago, the first edition of D'Arcy Thompson's book On Growth and Form
appeared. 1 Much of it is long out of date, but D'Arcy Thompson makes a point of …

Several enhanced sampling methods, such as umbrella sampling or metadynamics, rely on
the identification of an appropriate set of collective variables. Recently two methods have …

The solidification of pure aluminum has been studied by a large-scale molecular dynamic
simulation. The potential energy, position D, height H, and width W of the first peak and …

Nucleation is a key step during crystallization, but a complete understanding of the
fundamental atomistic processes remains elusive. We investigate the mechanism of …

The demonstration of high entropy alloys (HEAs), or more generally multi-principal-element
alloys (MPEAs), which display a greater resistance to softening at elevated temperatures …

Crystallization often proceeds through successive stages that lead to a gradual increase in
organization. Using molecular simulation, we determine the nucleation pathway for solid …