A new take on sonocrystallization is showing industrial promise thanks to experimental investigations at Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron research facility. Joe McEntee reports ...

Crystal-like Si/O atoms are coloured as ... large system sizes (>100,000 atoms) to describe nucleation and growth processes free of artificial boundary condition effects; sufficiently accurate ...

A research team consisting of NIMS, AGC Inc., and JASRI has observed partial crystallization of a glass—an initial stage in ...

They systematically studied the nucleation and growth behavior ... Insight into the rapid growth of graphene single crystals on liquid metal via chemical vapor deposition, Science China Materials ...

A wide range of science and technology applications are reliant on the nucleation and growth of crystals via the self-organization of atoms or molecules. These phenomena have been studied for decades, ...

In this mode of crystal growth, called ""layer-by-layer," the ... One important consideration that Stephenson noted is that the nucleation of new islands was not influenced by defects in the ...

The meeting was organised by the RSC Faraday Division.The field of nucleation, growth, inhibition and dissolution of solids is a topic of enduring importance in physical chemistry, materials science, ...

Materials scientists have now studied nucleation and growth of this layer ... and atomic force microscopy to investigate the crystal growth until completion of the layer. They found that a smooth ...

while low levels favor less nucleation but more crystal growth. The Cave of Crystals, therefore, was just right for the few crystals that nucleated to grow to gigantic proportions. Understanding ...