Scientists from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have recently discovered a non-classical nucleation process that can greatly facilitate ice formation on foreign surfaces.

Crystals form in storm clouds, metals, drug molecules, and even in diseased tissues. Despite their ubiquity, scientists still don’t fully understand what happens when a liquid solution first starts to ...

A team based at Princeton University has accurately simulated the initial steps of ice formation by applying artificial intelligence (AI) to solving equations that govern the quantum behavior of ...

For an oyster growing a shell, a food scientist striving for the perfect ice cream, or a pharmaceutical operator isolating a drug, crystallization is king. Even though the crystal growth process is ...

In pharmaceutical manufacturing, freeze-drying (lyophilisation) plays a pivotal role in ensuring product stability, especially for biologics and injectable formulations. Yet, uncontrolled ice ...

Whether it is clouds or champagne bubbles forming, or the early onset of Alzheimer's disease or Type 2 diabetes, a common mechanism is at work: nucleation processes. Nucleation processes are a first ...

Researchers conducted an experiment to investigate the initial steps in the formation of aerosols. Their findings are now aiding efforts to better understand and model that process - for example, the ...

Secoya Technologies has developed a crystallization technology that relies on the control of spontaneous nucleation inside small tubular reactors of molecules in solution. Thanks to an excellent ...