2 papers
cond-mat.stat-mech2025
Interfacial Free Energy as the Key to the Pressure-Induced Deceleration of Ice Nucleation
Jorge R. Espinosa, Alberto Zaragoza, Pablo Rosales-Peláez +4
The avoidance of water freezing is the holy grail in the cryopreservation of biological samples, food, and organs. Fast cooling rates are used to beat ice nucleation and avoid cell…
cond-mat.soft2024
Variational Umbrella Seeding for Calculating Nucleation Barriers
Willem Gispen, Jorge R. Espinosa, Eduardo Sanz +2
In this work, we introduce Variational Umbrella Seeding, a novel technique for computing nucleation barriers. This new method, a refinement of the original seeding approach, is far…