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Figure 1
Concept of the flow-induced cascading reduction of a free energy barrier from A to B via cascading evolutions of a series of dissipative structures 1 to 4 for ordering from an initially homogeneous structure I into an ordered structure F. External fields assist to suppress an excessively large barrier A in the absence of the fields into a free energy landscape B, which enables the ordering from I to F that can be hardly attained in the absence of the fields.

IUCrJ
Volume 2| Part 1| January 2015| Pages 59-73
ISSN: 2052-2525
doi:10.1107/S205225251402288X