Search research articles

ABOUT JoVE

Overview Leadership Blog JoVE Help Center

AUTHORS

Publishing Process Editorial Board Scope & Policies Peer Review FAQ Submit

LIBRARIANS

Testimonials Subscriptions Access Resources Library Advisory Board FAQ

RESEARCH

JoVE Journal Methods Collections JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments Archive

EDUCATION

JoVE Core JoVE Business JoVE Science Education JoVE Lab Manual Faculty Resource Center Faculty Site

Terms & Conditions of Use

Related Concept Videos

Crystal Growth: Principles of Crystallization

Crystal Growth: Principles of Crystallization

Crystallization is a phase transformation process in which crystals are precipitated from a supersaturated solution or formed from other sources. During crystallization, atoms or molecules arrange themselves into a well-defined, rigid crystal lattice to minimize energy.
Initiating crystallization involves manipulating the concentration of the solute and the temperature of the solution. Since crystal growth occurs when the ratio of concentration and solubility of the solute in the solvent – the...

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by

Same author

Nanofluidic systems for ionic intelligence.

Nanoscale horizons·2026

Same author

Effect of asymmetry on frustrated crystallization.

Scientific reports·2026

Same author

Dynamical universality and vibrational divergence in 2D supercooled liquids, quasicrystals, and crystals.

Soft matter·2026

Same author

Dynamic bidirectional coupling of membrane morphology and rod organization in flexible vesicles.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·2026

Same author

Vacancy defects in square-triangle tilings and their implications for quasicrystals formed by square-shoulder particles.

The Journal of chemical physics·2026

Same author

Navigating Complex Phase Diagrams in Soft Matter Systems.

Physical review letters·2026

Same journal

Anharmonic phonons via quantum thermal bath simulations.

The Journal of chemical physics·2026

Same journal

Quantum simulation of alignment dependent differential cross sections in co-propagating molecular beams at cold collision energies.

The Journal of chemical physics·2026

Same journal

Non-additive ion effects on the coil-globule equilibrium of a generic polymer in aqueous salt solutions.

The Journal of chemical physics·2026

Same journal

Insights into the unexpected small reduction of the temperature of maximum density of water by lithium chloride addition.

The Journal of chemical physics·2026

Same journal

Optical frequency comb double-resonance spectroscopy of the 9030-9175 cm-1 states of ethylene.

The Journal of chemical physics·2026

Same journal

Time reversal breaking of colloidal particles in cells.

The Journal of chemical physics·2026

See all related articles

Search research articles

Related Experiment Video

Updated: May 21, 2026

Optimizing the Growth of Endothiapepsin Crystals for Serial Crystallography Experiments

Optimizing the Growth of Endothiapepsin Crystals for Serial Crystallography Experiments

Published on: February 4, 2021

Predicting patchy particle crystals: variable box shape simulations and evolutionary algorithms.

Emanuela Bianchi¹, Günther Doppelbauer, Laura Filion

¹Institut für Theoretische Physik and Center for Computational Materials Science (CMS), Technische Universität Wien, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10, A-1040 Vienna, Austria.

The Journal of Chemical Physics

|June 16, 2012

Summary

This summary is machine-generated.

This study systematically investigated crystal structures for patchy particle models. Both Monte Carlo simulations and evolutionary algorithms proved equally successful in predicting crystalline phases.

More Related Videos

$On-Chip Crystallization and Large-Scale Serial Diffraction at Room Temperature$

On-Chip Crystallization and Large-Scale Serial Diffraction at Room Temperature

Published on: March 11, 2022

Related Experiment Videos

Last Updated: May 21, 2026

Optimizing the Growth of Endothiapepsin Crystals for Serial Crystallography Experiments

Optimizing the Growth of Endothiapepsin Crystals for Serial Crystallography Experiments

Published on: February 4, 2021

$On-Chip Crystallization and Large-Scale Serial Diffraction at Room Temperature$

On-Chip Crystallization and Large-Scale Serial Diffraction at Room Temperature

Published on: March 11, 2022

Area of Science:

Computational physics and materials science, focusing on soft matter systems.

Background:

Patchy particle models are crucial for understanding self-assembly in complex fluids.
Predicting the emergent crystalline structures from these models is computationally challenging.

Purpose of the Study:

To systematically investigate candidate crystal structures for various patchy particle models.
To compare the efficacy of two distinct computational algorithms for crystal structure prediction.

Main Methods:

Utilized Monte Carlo simulations within the isobaric-isothermal (NPT) ensemble.
Employed an optimization technique inspired by evolutionary algorithms.

Main Results:

Both Monte Carlo simulations and evolutionary algorithms yielded consistent results for crystalline phases.
The systematic investigation identified stable crystalline structures for the considered patchy particle models.

Conclusions:

The study validates the reliability of both Monte Carlo and evolutionary algorithms for predicting patchy particle crystal structures.
Consistent findings across methods enhance confidence in the predicted crystalline phases.