3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Ostwald's Rule of Stages in One-Dimension
Jiajun Chen, Ying Xia, Mingyi Zhang +2
Ostwald's Rule of Stages, which is one of the most widely observed phenomena associated with crystallization of polymorphs, follows naturally from the thermodynamics of nucleation.…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025
Achieving electrode smoothing by controlling the nucleation phase of metal deposition through polymer-substrate binding
Ying Xia, Duo Song, Mingyi Zhang +11
Polymer additives [like polyethylene oxide (PEO)] are widely used for smooth electrode deposition in aqueous zinc and a number of other battery systems currently investigated for e…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024
Molecular-Resolution Imaging of Ice Crystallized from Liquid Water
Jingshan S. Du, Suvo Banik, Henry Chan +6
Despite the ubiquity of ice, a molecular-resolution image of ice crystallized from liquid water or the resulting defect structure has never been obtained. Here, we report the stabi…