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The study is published in the journal NPG Asia Materials. To investigate this crystal nucleation process, the team performed multiscale structural analysis mainly using synchrotron X-rays.

The formation of these seeds is called ice nucleation. Nucleation is so slow for pure water at zero degrees that it might as well not happen at all. But in nature, impurities provide surfaces for ...

Mineral crystals cannot just start forming spontaneously – they need special conditions and a nucleation site to grow on. A nucleation site can be a rough edge of rock or a speck of dust that a ...

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“The Pb dopants also provide nucleation sites to enable high-quality Sn-Pb perovskite film growth.” The group built the top ...

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