Metadynamics studies of crystal nucleation

Crystallization processes are characterized by activated events, thus the application of enhanced sampling techniques such as metadynamics in order to study phenomena occurring at the molecular scale through molecular modelling. This paper provides an introduction to metadynamics and an overview of its applications in the context of crystal nucleation.

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