The aim of the present study was to develop an automatic and reliable ice nucleation method by using silver iodide (AgI) as the ice nucleating agent. The effect of the introduction of ice nucleation by AgI was examined by observing the temperature rise due to the release of latent heat of fusion at temperatures where spontaneous freezing did not yet occur. AgI in distilled water was loaded into...

Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) were used to study the effect of talc on crystallization properties morphology PVA/talc composite films from perspective heterogeneous nucleation effect. The Mo Zhishen equation Avrami kinetics behavior, successive self-nucleation annealing (SSA) method was analyze wafer thickness at various ...

What makes a material a good ice nucleating agent? Despite the importance of heterogeneous ice nucleation to a variety of fields, from cloud science to microbiology, major gaps in our understanding of this ubiquitous process still prevent us from answering this question. In this work, we have examined the ability of generic crystalline substrates to promote ice nucleation as a function of the h...