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Sep 2026
Liquid-state orientational precursors bias crystal polymorph nucleation.
How crystals emerge from supercooled liquids remains a central problem in condensed-matter physics and a paradigm of first-order phase transitions under metastable conditions. Supercooled liquids often form crystal nuclei that are not the thermodynamically most stable solid, in a manner that cannot be attributed solely...
Si-Min An, Peng-Fei Guan, Xian Zhang et al.
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