Heterogeneous nucleation at solid-liquid interfaces in liquid metals is a complex yet fundamentally important phenomenon that governs the initial stages of crystallisation in metallurgical processes.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 115, No. 21 (May 22, 2018), pp. 5383-5388 (6 pages) In supercooled water, ice nucleation is a stochastic process ...