Breaking local symmetry—why water freezes but silica forms a glass

Everyone knows that water freezes at 0 degrees C. Life on Earth would be vastly different if this were not so. However, water
Everyone knows that water freezes at 0 degrees C. Life on Earth would be vastly different if this were not so. However, water's cousin, silica, exhibits wayward behavior when cooled that has long puzzled scientists.

Freezing-induced wetting transitions on superhydrophobic surfaces

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Dehydration of a crystal hydrate at subglacial temperatures

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Significance of the high-pressure properties and structural evolution of gas hydrates for inferring the interior of icy bodies, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science

Understanding the strange behavior of water

Entropically engineered formation of fivefold and icosahedral twinned clusters of colloidal shapes

Theoretical computation of the solidification front propagation

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The viscosities of several substances plotted as functions of the

Breaking translational symmetry via polymer chain overcrowding in molecular bottlebrush crystallization

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Freezing life within refractory, amorphous silicon dioxide

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