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SUBMITTER: Lohmann AK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4267372 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Löhmann Ann-Kristin AK Henze Thomas T Thurn-Albrecht Thomas T
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20141124 49
Crystallization is almost always initiated at an interface to a solid. This observation is classically explained by the assumption of a reduced barrier for crystal nucleation at the interface. However, an interface can also induce crystallization by prefreezing (i.e., the formation of a crystalline layer that is already stable above the bulk melting temperature). We present an atomic force microscopy (AFM)-based in situ observation of a prefreezing process at the interface of a polymeric model s ...[more]