Non-Melting Phenomena of Snowflakes Observed in Subsaturated Air below Freezing Level

Freezing and melting criteria in non-equilibrium

Using non-equilibrium computer simulations, it is shown that various phenomenological criteria for melting and freezing hold not only in equilibrium but in steady-state non-equilibrium as well. In particular, we study the steady state of charge-polydisperse Brownian particles shaken by a time-dependent oscillatory electric field. Among these criteria are the Lindemann melting rule, the Hansen–V...

Thermodynamics of freezing and melting

Although the freezing of liquids and melting of crystals are fundamental for many areas of the sciences, even simple properties like the temperature-pressure relation along the melting line cannot be predicted today. Here we present a theory in which properties of the coexisting crystal and liquid phases at a single thermodynamic state point provide the basis for calculating the pressure, densi...

Pre-freezing and Pre-melting

When attempts are made to interpret the solid-liquid transition in terms of molecular structure, highly significant information can emerge from phemomena of pre-melting and pre-freezing. Empirically, on approaching the transition between solid and liquid, characteristic parameters of the phase under examination may show an accelerated rate of change, in the sense of a premonition of the change ...

Asymmetric melting and freezing kinetics in silicon.

Effects of confinement on freezing and melting.

We present a review of experimental, theoretical, and molecular simulation studies of confinement effects on freezing and melting. We consider both simple and more complex adsorbates that are confined in various environments (slit or cylindrical pores and also disordered porous materials). The most commonly used molecular simulation, theoretical and experimental methods are first presented. We ...