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Crystal nucleation

Nucleus in a droplet

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Real-time transmission electron microscopy shows that the formation of crystal nuclei of organic molecules in solution occurs inside dense liquid nanoclusters.

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Figure 1: Schematic of the two-step mechanism of nucleation of crystals of tribromide-Y on single-molecule hooks9.

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  1. Peter G. Vekilov is in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and the Department of Chemistry, University of Houston, 4800 Calhoun Boulevard, Houston, Texas 77204-4004, USA,

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