Critical Radius of Supercooled Water Droplets: On the Transition toward Dendritic Freezing.

@article{Buttersack2016CriticalRO,
  title={Critical Radius of Supercooled Water Droplets: On the Transition toward Dendritic Freezing.},
  author={Tillmann Buttersack and Sigurd Bauerecker},
  journal={The journal of physical chemistry. B},
  year={2016},
  volume={120 3},
  pages={
          504-12
        }
}
The freezing of freely suspended supercooled water droplets with a diameter of bigger than a few micrometers splits into two rather different freezing stages. Within the first very fast dendritic freezing stage a spongy network ice with an ice portion of less than one-third forms and more than two-thirds of liquid water remain. In the present work the distribution of the ice portion in the droplet directly after the dendritic freezing phase as well as the evolution of the ice and temperature… 
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