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Freezing on a sphere

Freezing on a sphere

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Freezing on a sphere

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Full title

Freezing on a sphere

Publisher

London: Nature Publishing Group UK

Journal title

Nature (London), 2018-02, Vol.554 (7692), p.346-350

Language

English

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Publisher

London: Nature Publishing Group UK

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Contents

Freezing on a spherical surface is shown to proceed by the sequestration of defects into 12 icosahedrally coordinated ‘seas’ that enable the formation of a crystalline ‘continent’ with long-range orientational order.
Crystal healing
Crystallization of a liquid in two dimensions can be understood as arising from the annihilation of pairs of st...

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Freezing on a sphere

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_2002480876

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_2002480876

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ISSN

0028-0836

E-ISSN

1476-4687

DOI

10.1038/nature25468

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