In the absence of the electric field vector, the system is undersaturated, evidenced by the dissolution of the nanocrystals in the no field case in figure . Furthermore, in the case of 𝛼and 𝛽glycine, it is observed that the solid-state glycine molecules are not able to reorient sufficiently to adopt an orientation more favorable (larger < cos(𝜃) >) than the liquid glycine molecules for electric field intensities less than 0.3 V/nm over the course of the simulation. The more favorable alignment of liquid phase glycine molecules enhances the stability of the liquid relative the solid, as conveyed by equation ( ), thereby increasing the rate of dissolution for electric field intensities less than 0.3 V/nm relative to the no field case. For the 0.2 V/nm case, the differences in alignment between solid and liquid molecules at the start of the simulation is largest, rationalizing the maximization of the dissolution rate observed for 𝛼and 𝛽-glycine at this electric field intensity. For electric field intensities above 0.5 V/nm, there is a reversal in the phase stability ranking, as crystal growth is observed. Here, solid glycine molecules reorient on a timescale similar to the liquid glycine molecules, and adopt a more favorable orientation, making the solid-state increasingly the preferred phase with increasing electric field intensity, hence facilitating crystal growth. In all cases, initially 𝛾-glycine molecules are able to reorient to a more favorable orientation than the liquid glycine molecules, rationalizing how the 𝛾 -glycine nanocrystal was only stabilized by the application of the electric field, and the dissolution kinetics did not increase with increasing field intensity. These results provide the prediction that the observed crystallization behavior of glycine as a function of applied electric field intensity is a result of a solid-state and liquid phase glycine competition over preferential alignment with the electric field vector on the fastest timescale. This finding, namely the competition between solid-state and liquid phase alignment driving electric field dependent growth or dissolution, is equivalent to our previous findings in the case of paracetamol from aqueous solution , suggesting that this may be a general finding displayed in seeded electric field crystallization MD simulations.