In Situ Kinetic Observations on Crystal Nucleation and Growth

J Li, FL Deepak - Chemical reviews, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Nucleation and growth are critical steps in crystallization, which plays an important role in
determining crystal structure, size, morphology, and purity. Therefore, understanding the …

Assembly and phase transitions of colloidal crystals

B Li, D Zhou, Y Han - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016‏ - nature.com
Micrometre-sized colloidal particles can be viewed as large atoms with tailorable size,
shape and interactions. These building blocks can assemble into extremely rich structures …

Complex crystalline structures in a two-dimensional core-softened system

NP Kryuchkov, SO Yurchenko, YD Fomin, EN Tsiok… - Soft Matter, 2018‏ - pubs.rsc.org
A transition from a square to a hexagonal lattice is studied in a 2D system of particles
interacting via a core-softened potential. Due to the presence of two length scales of …

[HTML][HTML] The seven deadly sins: When computing crystal nucleation rates, the devil is in the details

KE Blow, D Quigley, GC Sosso - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2021‏ - pubs.aip.org
The formation of crystals has proven to be one of the most challenging phase
transformations to quantitatively model—let alone to actually understand—be it by means of …

Responsive hydrogel colloids: Structure, interactions, phase behavior, and equilibrium and nonequilibrium transitions of microgel dispersions

J Brijitta, P Schurtenberger - Current opinion in colloid & interface science, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Soft and responsive colloids based on polymer hydrogels have moved into the focus of the
colloid community. This review gives a brief overview of the recent literature on the structure …

[HTML][HTML] Tunable two-dimensional assembly of colloidal particles in rotating electric fields

EV Yakovlev, KA Komarov, KI Zaytsev, NP Kryuchkov… - Scientific reports, 2017‏ - nature.com
Tunable interparticle interactions in colloidal suspensions are of great interest because of
their fundamental and practical significance. In this paper we present a new experimental …

Melting is well-known, but is it also well-understood?

G de With - Chemical Reviews, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Contrary to continuous phase transitions, where renormalization group theory provides a
general framework, for discontinuous phase transitions such a framework seems to be …

Atomic insights into heterogeneous nucleation and growth kinetics of Al on TiB2 particles in undercooled Al-5Ti-1B melt

J Feng, Y Han, X Han, X Wang, S Song, B Sun… - Journal of Materials …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Titanium diboride (TiB 2) is an effective grain refiner of Al alloys in the industry that facilitates
casting processes by forming uniformly refined microstructures. Although our understanding …

Machine learning-assisted MD simulation of melting in superheated AlCu validates the Classical Nucleation Theory

AO Tipeev, RE Ryltsev, NM Chtchelkatchev… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The validity of the Classical Nucleation Theory (CNT), the standard tool for describing and
predicting nucleation kinetics in metastable systems, has been under scrutiny for almost a …

Multistep nucleation of anisotropic molecules

KZ Takahashi, T Aoyagi, J Fukuda - Nature communications, 2021‏ - nature.com
Phase transition of anisotropic materials is ubiquitously observed in physics, biology,
materials science, and engineering. Nevertheless, how anisotropy of constituent molecules …