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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…
Heterogeneous versus homogeneous crystal nucleation in hard spheres
Jorge R. Espinosa, Carlos Vega, Chantal Valeriani +2
Hard-sphere model systems are well-suited in both experiment and simulations to investigate fundamental aspects of the crystallization of fluids. In experiments on colloidal models…
Seeding Approach to Bubble Nucleation in Superheated Lennard Jones Fluids
Pablo Rosales-Pelaez, Marta Irene Garcia-Cid, Chantal Valeriani +2
We investigate vapor homogeneous nucleation in a superheated Lennard Jones liquid with computer simulations. Special simulation techniques are required to address this study since…
Seeding Approach to nucleation in the NVT ensemble: the case of bubble cavitation in overstretched Lennard Jones fluids
Pablo Rosales-Pelaez, Ignacio Sanchez-Burgos, Chantal Valeriani +2
Simulations are widely used to study nucleation in first order phase transitions due to the fact that they have access to the relevant length and time scales. However, simulations…
Homogeneous ice nucleation evaluated for several water models
J. R. Espinosa, E. Sanz, C. Valeriani +1
In this work, we evaluate by means of computer simulations the rate for ice homogeneous nucleation for several water models such as TIP4P, TIP4P/2005,TIP4P/ICE, and mW (following t…
Avalanches mediate crystallization in a hard-sphere glass
Eduardo Sanz, Chantal Valeriani, Emanuela Zaccarelli +3
By molecular-dynamics simulations, we have studied the devitrification (or crystallization) of aged hard-sphere glasses. First, we find that the dynamics of the particles are inter…