Understanding the thermodynamic stability and metastability of materials can help us to, for
example, gauge whether crystalline polymorphs in pharmaceutical formulations are likely to …

Icosahedral quasicrystals (IQCs) are materials that exhibit long-range order but lack
periodicity in any direction. Although IQCs were the first reported quasicrystals, they have …

For many years, quasicrystals were observed only as solid-state metallic alloys, yet current
research is now actively exploring their formation in a variety of soft materials, including …

Particles interacting via isotropic, multiwell pair potentials have been shown to self-
assemble into a range of crystal structures, yet how the characteristics of the underlying …

Hard spheres are one of the most fundamental model systems in soft matter physics, and
have been instrumental in shedding light on nearly every aspect of classical condensed …

The rigid constraints of chemistry—dictated by quantum mechanics and the discrete nature
of the atom—limit the set of observable atomic crystal structures. What structures are …

Model patchy particles have been shown to be able to form a wide variety of structures,
including symmetric clusters, complex crystals, and even two-dimensional quasicrystals …

The generation of vacancies at a crystal-liquid interface propagating under conditions of
undercooling below the equilibrium melting temperature is investigated in molecular …

Using computer simulations, we investigate the phase behavior of a system of particles
interacting with a remarkably simple repulsive square-shoulder pair potential and report the …

In this work, we report results of extensive computer simulations regarding the phase
behavior of a core-softened system. By using structural and thermodynamic descriptors, as …