Two-step nucleation mechanism in solid–solid phase transitions

Visualizing kinetic pathways of homogeneous nucleation in colloidal crystallization

(2013) Peng Tan et al.   Nature Physics

Imaging the Homogeneous Nucleation During the Melting of Superheated Colloidal Crystals

(2012) Z. Wang et al.   SCIENCE

Driving diffusionless transformations in colloidal crystals using DNA handshaking

(2012) Marie T. Casey et al.   Nature Communications

Nucleation mechanism for the direct graphite-to-diamond phase transition

(2011) Rustam Z. Khaliullin et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Melting of multilayer colloidal crystals confined between two walls

(2011) Y. Peng et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Hard spheres revisited: Accurate calculation of the solid–liquid interfacial free energy

(2010) Ruslan L. Davidchack   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Melting of Colloidal Crystal Films

(2010) Y. Peng et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Test of classical nucleation theory and mean first-passage time formalism on crystallization in the Lennard-Jones liquid

(2009) Sarah E. M. Lundrigan et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Thermal vestige of the zero-temperature jamming transition

(2009) Zexin Zhang et al.   NATURE

Manipulation of Colloids by a Nonequilibrium Depletion Force in a Temperature Gradient

(2009) Hong-Ren Jiang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Ultrafast transformation of graphite to diamond: An ab initio study of graphite under shock compression

(2008) Christopher J. Mundy et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Ring-diffusion mediated homogeneous melting in the superheating regime

(2008) Xian-Ming Bai et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B