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Crystallization and vitrification in aqueous systems
Author(s) -
Angell C. A.,
Choi Y.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of microscopy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.569
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1365-2818
pISSN - 0022-2720
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2818.1986.tb02720.x
Subject(s) - vitrification , crystallization , supercooling , cryoprotectant , thermodynamics , binary number , aqueous solution , materials science , statistical physics , chemistry , physics , cryopreservation , mathematics , nuclear physics , embryo , arithmetic , biology , microbiology and biotechnology
SUMMARY Some key ideas and experimental findings concerning the probability that crystallization of a liquid or its binary solutions will occur at moderate cooling rates are discussed. The use of cryoprotectants and of pressure to favourably influence these probabilities is rationalized, and some of the newer findings on small sample supercooling phenomena are reviewed.