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Liu Y, Li Y, Wu J, Zhang X, Nan P, Wang P, Sun D, Wang Y, Zhu J, Ge B, Francisco JS. Direct Visualization of Molecular Stacking in Quasi-2D Hexagonal Ice. J Am Chem Soc 2024; 146:23598-23605. [PMID: 39165248 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c08313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/22/2024]
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Understanding ice nucleation and growth is of great interest to researchers due to its importance in the biological, cryopreservation, and environmental fields. However, microstructural investigations of ice on the molecular scale are still lacking. In this paper, a simple method is proposed to prepare quasi-2-dimensional ice Ih films, which have been characterized via cryogenic transmission electron microscope. The intersecting stacking faults of basal (BSF) and prismatic (PSF) types have been directly visualized and resolved with a notable first-time report of PSF in ice Ih. Moreover, the possible growth pathways of BSF, namely, the Ic phase, were elucidated by the theoretical calculations and the chair conformation of H2O molecules. This study offers valuable insights that can enhance researchers' understanding of the growth kinetics of crystalline ice.
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- Yangrui Liu
- Information Materials and Intelligent Sensing Laboratory of Anhui Province, Leibniz International Joint Research Center of Materials Sciences of Anhui Province, Institutes of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Natural Gas Hydrate, Department of Physics & Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, Guangdong 511458, China
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- Cryo-EM Center, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Natural Gas Hydrate, Department of Physics & Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Information Materials and Intelligent Sensing Laboratory of Anhui Province, Leibniz International Joint Research Center of Materials Sciences of Anhui Province, Institutes of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Natural Gas Hydrate, Department of Physics & Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, Guangdong 511458, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Natural Gas Hydrate, Department of Physics & Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, Guangdong 511458, China
- Quantum Science Center of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Guangdong), Shenzhen 518045, China
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- Information Materials and Intelligent Sensing Laboratory of Anhui Province, Leibniz International Joint Research Center of Materials Sciences of Anhui Province, Institutes of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6316, United States
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Thoeny AV, Gasser TM, Hoffmann L, Keppler M, Böhmer R, Loerting T. Kinetic isotope effects on hydrogen/deuterium disordering and ordering in ice crystals: A Raman and dielectric study of ice VI, XV, and XIX. J Chem Phys 2024; 160:244504. [PMID: 38934633 DOI: 10.1063/5.0211427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2024] [Accepted: 06/03/2024] [Indexed: 06/28/2024] Open
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Ice XIX and ice XV are both partly hydrogen-ordered counterparts to disordered ice VI. The ice XIX → XV transition represents the only order-to-order transition in ice physics. Using Raman and dielectric spectroscopies, we investigate the ambient-pressure kinetics of the two individual steps in this transition in real time (of hours), that is, ice XIX → transient ice VI (the latter called VI‡) and ice VI‡ → ice XV. Hydrogen-disordered ice VI‡ appears intermittent between 101 and 120 K, as inferred from the appearance and subsequent disappearance of the ice VI Raman marker bands. A comparison of the rate constants for the H2O ices reported here with those from D2O samples [Thoeny et al., J. Chem. Phys. 156, 154507 (2022)] reveals a large kinetic isotope effect for the ice XIX decay, but a much smaller one for the ice XV buildup. An enhancement of the classical overbarrier rate through quantum tunneling for the former can provide a possible explanation for this finding. The activation barriers for both transitions are in the 18-24 kJ/mol range, which corresponds to the energy required to break a single hydrogen bond. These barriers do not show an H/D isotope effect and are the same, no matter whether they are derived from Raman scattering or from dielectric spectroscopy. These findings favor the notion that a dipolar reorientation, involving the breakage of a hydrogen bond, is the rate determining step at the order-to-order transition.
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- Alexander V Thoeny
- Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Fakultät Physik, Technische Universität Dortmund, 44221 Dortmund, Germany
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- Fakultät Physik, Technische Universität Dortmund, 44221 Dortmund, Germany
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- Fakultät Physik, Technische Universität Dortmund, 44221 Dortmund, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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Gasser TM, Thoeny AV, Fortes AD, Loerting T. Configurational entropy of ice XIX and its isotope effect. Sci Rep 2024; 14:10517. [PMID: 38714722 PMCID: PMC11076531 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-61250-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2024] [Accepted: 05/03/2024] [Indexed: 05/10/2024] Open
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Ice XIX is a partly hydrogen-ordered polymorph related to disordered ice VI, similar to ice XV. We here investigate the order-order-disorder sequence ice XIX→ice XV→ice VI based on calorimetry at ambient pressure both for D2O and H2O-ice XIX. From these data we extract configurational entropy differences between ice XIX, ice XV and ice VI. This task is complex because, unlike for all other ices, the order-disorder transition from ice XIX to ice VI takes place in two steps via ice XV. Even more challenging, these two steps take place in an overlapping manner, so that careful separation of slow kinetics is necessary. This is evidenced best by changing the heating rate in calorimetry experiments: For fast heating experiments the second step, disordering of ice XV, is suppressed because the first step, formation of ice XV from ice XIX, is too slow. The transient state ice VI‡ that is initially produced upon ice XIX decay then does not have enough time to convert to ice XV, but remains disordered all along. In order to tackle the challenge to determine the entropy difference between ice XIX and VI as well as the entropy difference between ice XV and VI we employ two different approaches that allow assessing the impact of kinetics on the entropy change. "Single peak integration" defines a kinetically limited result, but "combined peak integration" allows estimation of the true thermodynamic values. Our best estimate for the true value shows ice XIX to be much more ordered than ice XV (25 ± 3% vs 9 ± 4% of the Pauling entropy). For D2Oice XIX samples we obtain 28% of order, but only when a small number of fast H-isotope defects are used. In the second part we use these results to estimate the location of the ice XIX phase boundary both for protiated and deuterated ice XIX. The initial Clapeyron slope at ambient pressure is determined from the combination of neutron powder diffraction volume differences and calorimetry entropy differences data to be 21 K GPa-1 with an order-disorder transition temperature To-d(0.0 GPa) = 103 ± 1 K. An in situ bracketing experiment at 1.8 GPa yields To-d(1.8 GPa) = 116 ± 3 K, i.e., the phase boundary slope flattens at higher pressures. These data allow us to determine the region of thermodynamic stability of ice XIX in the phase diagram and to explain the surprising isotope shift reversal at 1.6 GPa compared to 0.0 GPa, i.e., why D2O-ice XIX disorders at lower temperatures than H2O-ice XIX at 1.6 GPa, but at higher temperatures at ambient pressures.
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- Tobias M Gasser
- Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria
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- ISIS Neutron and Muon Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Chilton, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX, UK
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria.
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Li J, Zhu C, Zhao W, Gao Y, Bai J, Jiang J, Zeng XC. Formation of a two-dimensional helical square tube ice in hydrophobic nanoslit using the TIP5P water model. J Chem Phys 2024; 160:164716. [PMID: 38661200 DOI: 10.1063/5.0205343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2024] [Accepted: 04/09/2024] [Indexed: 04/26/2024] Open
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In extreme and nanoconfinement conditions, the tetrahedral arrangement of water molecules is challenged, resulting in a rich and new phase behavior unseen in bulk phases. The unique phase behavior of water confined in hydrophobic nanoslits has been previously observed, such as the formation of a variety of two-dimensional (2D) ices below the freezing temperature. The primary identified 2D ice phase, termed square tube ice (STI), represents a unique arrangement of water molecules in 2D ice, which can be viewed as an array of 1D ice nanotubes stacked in the direction parallel to the confinement plane. In this study, we report the molecular dynamics (MD) simulations evidence of a novel 2D ice phase, namely, helical square tube ice (H-STI). H-STI is characterized by the stacking of helical ice nanotubes in the direction parallel to the confinement plane. Its structural specificity is evident in the presence of helical square ice nanotubes, a configuration unseen in both STI and single-walled ice nanotubes. A detailed analysis of the hydrogen bonding strength showed that H-STI is a 2D ice phase diverging from the Bernal-Fowler-Pauling ice rules by forming only two strong hydrogen bonds between adjacent molecules along its helical ice chain. This arrangement of strong hydrogen bonds along ice nanotube and weak bonds between the ice nanotube shows a similarity to quasi-one-dimensional van der Waals materials. Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations (over a 30 ps) were employed to further verify H-STI's stability at 1 GPa and temperature up to 200 K.
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- Jiaxian Li
- Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588, USA
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- College of Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry of Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Physics, School of Physical Science and Technology, Ningbo University, 818 Fenghua Road, Ningbo 315211, People's Republic of China
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- Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Physics, University of Nebraska-Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska 68182, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588, USA
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, People's Republic of China
- Shenzhen Research Institute, City University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen 518057, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588, USA
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, People's Republic of China
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Matsumoto M, Yagasaki T, Tanaka H. GenIce-core: Efficient algorithm for generation of hydrogen-disordered ice structures. J Chem Phys 2024; 160:094101. [PMID: 38426513 DOI: 10.1063/5.0198056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2024] [Accepted: 02/09/2024] [Indexed: 03/02/2024] Open
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Ice is different from ordinary crystals because it contains randomness, which means that statistical treatment based on ensemble averaging is essential. Ice structures are constrained by topological rules known as the ice rules, which give them unique anomalous properties. These properties become more apparent when the system size is large. For this reason, there is a need to produce a large number of sufficiently large crystals that are homogeneously random and satisfy the ice rules. We have developed an algorithm to quickly generate ice structures containing ions and defects. This algorithm is provided as an independent software module that can be incorporated into crystal structure generation software. By doing so, it becomes possible to simulate ice crystals on a previously impossible scale.
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- Masakazu Matsumoto
- Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Science, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Science, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
- Toyota Physical and Chemical Research Institute, Nagakute 480-1192, Japan
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Yamashita K, Loerting T. Thermodynamically Stable Intermediate in the Course of Hydrogen Ordering from Ice V to Ice XIII. J Phys Chem Lett 2024; 15:1181-1187. [PMID: 38270372 PMCID: PMC10839903 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c03411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2023] [Revised: 01/07/2024] [Accepted: 01/09/2024] [Indexed: 01/26/2024]
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Even though many partially ordered ices are known, it remains elusive to understand and categorize them. In this study, we study the ordering from ice V to XIII using calorimetry at ambient pressure and discover that the transition takes place via an intermediate that is thermodynamically stable at 113-120 K. Our isothermal ordering approach allows us to highlight the distinction of this intermediate from ice V and XIII, where there are clear differences both in terms of enthalpy and ordering kinetics. We suggest that the approach developed in the present work can also reveal the nature of partially ordered forms in the hydrogen order-disorder series of other ice phases.
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- Keishiro Yamashita
- Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52c, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52c, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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Mochizuki K, Adachi Y, Koga K. Close-Packed Ices in Nanopores. ACS NANO 2024; 18:347-354. [PMID: 38109520 PMCID: PMC10786155 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c07084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2023] [Revised: 12/05/2023] [Accepted: 12/12/2023] [Indexed: 12/20/2023]
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Water molecules in any of the ice polymorphs organize themselves into a perfect four-coordinated hydrogen-bond network at the expense of dense packing. Even at high pressures, there seems to be no way to reconcile the ice rules with the close packing. Here, we report several close-packed ice phases in carbon nanotubes obtained from molecular dynamics simulations of two different water models. Typically they are in plastic states at high temperatures and are transformed into the hydrogen-ordered ice, keeping their close-packed structures at lower temperatures. The close-packed structures of water molecules in carbon nanotubes are identified with those of spheres in a cylinder. We present design principles of hydrogen-ordered, close-packed structures of ice in nanotubes, which suggest many possible dense ice forms with or without nonzero polarization. In fact, some of the simulated ices are found to exhibit ferroelectric ordering upon cooling.
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- Kenji Mochizuki
- Department
of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310028, People’s Republic of China
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- Graduate
School of Natural Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
- MEC
Company Ltd., Hyogo 660-0822, Japan
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- Department
of Chemistry, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
- Research Institute
for Interdisciplinary Science, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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Kobayashi H, Komatsu K, Ito H, Machida S, Hattori T, Kagi H. Slightly Hydrogen-Ordered State of Ice IV Evidenced by In Situ Neutron Diffraction. J Phys Chem Lett 2023; 14:10664-10669. [PMID: 37988084 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c02563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2023]
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Ice IV is a metastable high-pressure phase of ice in which the water molecules exhibit orientational disorder. Although orientational ordering is commonly observed for other ice phases, it has not been reported for ice IV. We conducted in situ powder neutron diffraction experiments for DCl-doped D2O ice IV to investigate its hydrogen ordering. We found abrupt changes in the temperature derivative of unit-cell volume, dV/dT, at ∼120 K, and revealed a slightly ordered structure at low temperatures based on the Rietveld method. The occupancy of the D1 site deviates from 0.5 in particular; it increased when samples were cooled at higher pressures and reached 0.174(14) at 2.38 GPa, 58 K. Our results evidence the presence of a low-symmetry hydrogen-ordered state corresponding to ice IV. It seems, however, difficult to experimentally access the completely ordered phase corresponding to ice IV by slow cooling at high pressure.
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- Hiroki Kobayashi
- Geochemical Research Center, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Geochemical Research Center, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Geochemical Research Center, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Neutron Science and Technology Center, Comprehensive Research Organization for Science and Society (CROSS), 162-1 Shirakata, Tokai, Naka, Ibaraki 319-1106, Japan
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- J-PARC Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata, Tokai, Naka, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan
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- Geochemical Research Center, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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Kim M, Kim YJ, Cho YC, Lee S, Kim S, Liermann HP, Lee YH, Lee GW. Simultaneous measurements of volume, pressure, optical images, and crystal structure with a dynamic diamond anvil cell: A real-time event monitoring system. THE REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS 2023; 94:113904. [PMID: 38015123 DOI: 10.1063/5.0166090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2023] [Accepted: 10/31/2023] [Indexed: 11/29/2023]
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The dynamic diamond anvil cell (dDAC) technique has attracted great interest because it possibly provides a bridge between static and dynamic compression studies with fast, repeatable, and controllable compression rates. The dDAC can be a particularly useful tool to study the pathways and kinetics of phase transitions under dynamic pressurization if simultaneous measurements of physical quantities are possible as a function of time. We here report the development of a real-time event monitoring (RTEM) system with dDAC, which can simultaneously record the volume, pressure, optical image, and structure of materials during dynamic compression runs. In particular, the volume measurement using both Fabry-Pérot interferogram and optical images facilitates the construction of an equation of state (EoS) using the dDAC in a home-laboratory. We also developed an in-line ruby pressure measurement (IRPM) system to be deployed at a synchrotron x-ray facility. This system provides simultaneous measurements of pressure and x-ray diffraction in low and narrow pressure ranges. The EoSs of ice VI obtained from the RTEM and the x-ray diffraction data with the IRPM are consistent with each other. The complementarity of both RTEM and IRPM systems will provide a great opportunity to scrutinize the detailed kinetic pathways of phase transitions using dDAC.
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- Minju Kim
- Frontier of Extreme Physics, Interdisciplinary Materials Measurement Institute, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Frontier of Extreme Physics, Interdisciplinary Materials Measurement Institute, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
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- Frontier of Extreme Physics, Interdisciplinary Materials Measurement Institute, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
- Applied Measurement Science, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
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- Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, POSTECH, Pohang 37673, Republic of Korea
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- Frontier of Extreme Physics, Interdisciplinary Materials Measurement Institute, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
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- Frontier of Extreme Physics, Interdisciplinary Materials Measurement Institute, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
- Applied Measurement Science, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
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Yamashita K, Nakayama K, Komatsu K, Ohhara T, Munakata K, Hattori T, Sano-Furukawa A, Kagi H. The hydrogen-bond network in sodium chloride tridecahydrate: analogy with ice VI. ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION B, STRUCTURAL SCIENCE, CRYSTAL ENGINEERING AND MATERIALS 2023; 79:414-426. [PMID: 37703290 DOI: 10.1107/s2052520623007199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2023] [Accepted: 08/16/2023] [Indexed: 09/15/2023]
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The structure of a recently found hyperhydrated form of sodium chloride (NaCl·13H2O and NaCl·13D2O) has been determined by in situ single-crystal neutron diffraction at 1.7 GPa and 298 K. It has large hydrogen-bond networks and some water molecules have distorted bonding features such as bifurcated hydrogen bonds and five-coordinated water molecules. The hydrogen-bond network has similarities to ice VI in terms of network topology and disordered hydrogen bonds. Assuming the equivalence of network components connected by pseudo-symmetries, the overall network structure of this hydrate can be expressed by breaking it down into smaller structural units which correspond to the ice VI network structure. This hydrogen-bond network contains orientational disorder of water molecules in contrast to the known salt hydrates. An example is presented here for further insights into a hydrogen-bond network containing ionic species.
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- Keishiro Yamashita
- Geochemical Research Center, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Geochemical Research Center, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Geochemical Research Center, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- J-PARC Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata, Tokai-mura, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan
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- Neutron Science and Technology Center, Comprehensive Research Organization for Science and Society (CROSS), IQBRC Building, 162-1 Shirakata, Tokai, Naka, Ibaraki 319-1106, Japan
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- J-PARC Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata, Tokai-mura, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan
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- J-PARC Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata, Tokai-mura, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan
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- Geochemical Research Center, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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Liu S, Liu X, Li Y, Guo Q, Yu X, Yin Y, Jing H, Zhang P. Theoretical Prediction of the Anti-Icing Activity of Two-Dimensional Ice I. Molecules 2023; 28:6145. [PMID: 37630397 PMCID: PMC10459863 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28166145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2023] [Revised: 08/13/2023] [Accepted: 08/18/2023] [Indexed: 08/27/2023] Open
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Two-dimensional (2D) ice I is atomic-level ice that is composed of two interlocked atomic layers saturated with hydrogen bonds. It has recently been experimentally observed, but its properties have yet to be clarified. Accordingly, we theoretically studied the hydrophobic properties of 2D ice I. On the contrary, a simulation of a hydrogen fluoride molecule on a 2D ice surface manifested that it destroyed the 2D ice structure and connected new hydrogen bonds with water molecules. Investigations of the interfacial effect between 2D and three-dimensional (3D) ice films indicated that the network structure of 2D ice was not destroyed by a 3D ice surface, as the former was saturated with hydrogen bonds. However, the surface of 3D ice reorganized to form as many hydrogen bonds as possible. Thus, the 2D ice film was hydrophobic and inhibited the growth of 3D ice. This shows that if 2D ice can be produced on an industrial scale, it can be used as an anti-3D-icing agent under low temperatures.
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- School of Space Science and Physics, Shandong University, Weihai 264209, China; (S.L.); (X.L.); (Y.L.); (Q.G.); (X.Y.); (Y.Y.); (H.J.)
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Piaggi PM, Gartner TE, Car R, Debenedetti PG. Melting curves of ice polymorphs in the vicinity of the liquid-liquid critical point. J Chem Phys 2023; 159:054502. [PMID: 37531247 DOI: 10.1063/5.0159288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2023] [Accepted: 07/14/2023] [Indexed: 08/04/2023] Open
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The possible existence of a liquid-liquid critical point in deeply supercooled water has been a subject of debate due to the challenges associated with providing definitive experimental evidence. The pioneering work by Mishima and Stanley [Nature 392, 164-168 (1998)] sought to shed light on this problem by studying the melting curves of different ice polymorphs and their metastable continuation in the vicinity of the expected liquid-liquid transition and its associated critical point. Based on the continuous or discontinuous changes in the slope of the melting curves, Mishima [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 334 (2000)] suggested that the liquid-liquid critical point lies between the melting curves of ice III and ice V. We explore this conjecture using molecular dynamics simulations with a machine learning model based on ab initio quantum-mechanical calculations. We study the melting curves of ices III, IV, V, VI, and XIII and find that all of them are supercritical and do not intersect the liquid-liquid transition locus. We also find a pronounced, yet continuous, change in the slope of the melting lines upon crossing of the liquid locus of maximum compressibility. Finally, we analyze the literature in light of our findings and conclude that the scenario in which the melting curves are supercritical is favored by the most recent computational and experimental evidence. Although the preponderance of evidence is consistent with the existence of a second critical point in water, the behavior of ice polymorph melting lines does not provide strong evidence in support of this viewpoint, according to our calculations.
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- Pablo M Piaggi
- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
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- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30318, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
- Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
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Rosu-Finsen A, Davies MB, Amon A, Wu H, Sella A, Michaelides A, Salzmann CG. Medium-density amorphous ice. Science 2023; 379:474-478. [PMID: 36730416 DOI: 10.1126/science.abq2105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Amorphous ices govern a range of cosmological processes and are potentially key materials for explaining the anomalies of liquid water. A substantial density gap between low-density and high-density amorphous ice with liquid water in the middle is a cornerstone of our current understanding of water. However, we show that ball milling "ordinary" ice Ih at low temperature gives a structurally distinct medium-density amorphous ice (MDA) within this density gap. These results raise the possibility that MDA is the true glassy state of liquid water or alternatively a heavily sheared crystalline state. Notably, the compression of MDA at low temperature leads to a sharp increase of its recrystallization enthalpy, highlighting that H2O can be a high-energy geophysical material.
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.,Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University College London, London WC1H 0AJ, UK
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London, London WC1E 7JE, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University College London, London WC1H 0AJ, UK
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.,Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
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Gao Y, Lu Y, Zhu X. Mateverse, the Future Materials Science Computation Platform Based on Metaverse. J Phys Chem Lett 2023; 14:148-157. [PMID: 36579474 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c03459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Currently, computational materials science involves human-computer interaction through coding in software or neural networks. There is still no direct way for human intelligence endorsement. The digitalization of human intelligence should be the ultimate goal for many disciplines. In materials science, human intelligence is still irreplaceable from machine learning techniques, where humans can deal with complex correlations in the real world. We design the framework of Mateverse, a materials science computation platform based on Metaverse, which unifies human intelligence, experiment data, and theoretical simulations. In Mateverse, we intensively study the properties of H2O, including the liquid and solid phases. We show that we can optimize a new water force field (which we name TIP4P-Meta) directly from the interactions between human and visible properties of H2O. This force field is validated to be better than the conventional water model, and new ice polymorphs can be generated. We believe our platform can provide valuable hints in the paradigm upgrade in future computational materials science development.
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- Yuechen Gao
- School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong518172, People's Republic of China
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- Fine-Fanta Technology, No. 527 Xixi Road, Qianjiang Zhejiang Merch Venture Capital Center, Xihu District, Hangzhou310013, People's Republic of China
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- School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong518172, People's Republic of China
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Liu Y, Pu Y, Zeng XC. Nanoporous ices: an emerging class in the water/ice family. NANOSCALE 2022; 15:92-100. [PMID: 36484320 DOI: 10.1039/d2nr05759j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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The history of scientific research on diverse ice structures dates back to more than a century. To date, 20 three-dimensional crystalline ice phases (ice I-ice XX) have been identified in the laboratory, among which ice XVI and ice XVII belong to a class of low-density nanoporous ices. Nanoporous ices can also be viewed as a special class of porous materials or water ice, as they possess a relatively high fraction of nano-cavities and/or nano-channels built into the hydrogen-bonded water framework. As such, like the prototypical class of porous materials (e.g., MOFs and COFs), nanoporous ices can be named as water oxygen-vertex frameworks (WOFs). Because of their large surface-to-volume ratio, WOFs may be potential media for gas storage, gas purification and separation. They may be applied to the biomedical field owing to their excellent biocompatibility. The field of porous ices is still emerging, as many porous ice structures that are predicted to be stable by computer simulations require future experimental confirmation. For future theoretical/computational studies, as the machine-learning method becomes an increasingly popular research tool in the material science and chemical science fields, more reliable porous ice structures and phase diagrams will be predicted with the development of more accurate machine-learning force fields.
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- Yuan Liu
- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai 519082, China.
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai 519082, China.
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- Department of Materials Science & Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, 999077, Hong Kong.
- Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
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Sokolov D, Yerezhep D, Vorobyova O, Golikov O, Aldiyarov AU. Infrared Analysis and Effect of Nitrogen and Nitrous Oxide on the Glass Transition of Methanol Cryofilms. ACS OMEGA 2022; 7:46402-46410. [PMID: 36570311 PMCID: PMC9773807 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.2c05090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2022] [Accepted: 11/18/2022] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Methanol plays an important role in studying the structure and dynamics of hydrogen bonds in alcohols and other physiologically important compounds in the condensed state. The physical vapor deposition method and two-beam interferometry make it possible to study the structure of polyatomic molecules, the nature and character of intermolecular interactions, and the internal structure of various compounds. Thus, it becomes possible to analyze changes in the internal structure of substances near the points of their phase transitions and glass transitions at ultralow temperatures. In this work, we have studied the effect of nitrogen and nitrous oxide on the dependence of refractive indices of methanol on temperature and on structural-phase transformations upon heating from 16 to 160 K.
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- Dmitriy
Yurievich Sokolov
- Al-Farabi
Kazakh National University, Al-Farabi Avenue, 71, Almaty050040, Kazakhstan
- Almaty
Technological University, Tole Bi Avenue, 100, Almaty050012, Kazakhstan
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- Al-Farabi
Kazakh National University, Al-Farabi Avenue, 71, Almaty050040, Kazakhstan
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- Al-Farabi
Kazakh National University, Al-Farabi Avenue, 71, Almaty050040, Kazakhstan
- Almaty
Technological University, Tole Bi Avenue, 100, Almaty050012, Kazakhstan
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- Al-Farabi
Kazakh National University, Al-Farabi Avenue, 71, Almaty050040, Kazakhstan
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Sacchi M, Tamtögl A. Water adsorption and dynamics on graphene and other 2D materials: Computational and experimental advances. ADVANCES IN PHYSICS: X 2022; 8:2134051. [PMID: 36816858 PMCID: PMC7614201 DOI: 10.1080/23746149.2022.2134051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2022] [Revised: 09/26/2022] [Accepted: 09/27/2022] [Indexed: 06/18/2023] Open
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The interaction of water and surfaces, at molecular level, is of critical importance for understanding processes such as corrosion, friction, catalysis and mass transport. The significant literature on interactions with single crystal metal surfaces should not obscure unknowns in the unique behaviour of ice and the complex relationships between adsorption, diffusion and long-range inter-molecular interactions. Even less is known about the atomic-scale behaviour of water on novel, non-metallic interfaces, in particular on graphene and other 2D materials. In this manuscript, we review recent progress in the characterisation of water adsorption on 2D materials, with a focus on the nano-material graphene and graphitic nanostructures; materials which are of paramount importance for separation technologies, electrochemistry and catalysis, to name a few. The adsorption of water on graphene has also become one of the benchmark systems for modern computational methods, in particular dispersion-corrected density functional theory (DFT). We then review recent experimental and theoretical advances in studying the single-molecular motion of water at surfaces, with a special emphasis on scattering approaches as they allow an unparalleled window of observation to water surface motion, including diffusion, vibration and self-assembly.
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- M. Sacchi
- Department of Chemistry, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK
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- Institute of Experimental Physics, Graz University of Technology, 8010 Graz, Austria
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Sokolov DY, Yerezhep D, Vorobyova O, Ramos MA, Shinbayeva A. Optical Studies of Thin Films of Cryocondensed Mixtures of Water and Admixture of Nitrogen and Argon. MATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 15:ma15217441. [PMID: 36363035 PMCID: PMC9658122 DOI: 10.3390/ma15217441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2022] [Revised: 10/18/2022] [Accepted: 10/21/2022] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The interaction of host molecules with water molecules is of primary importance in astrophysical and atmospheric studies. Water-binding interactions continue to attract a broad interest in various fields, especially those related to the formation of assembly structures. Using the physical vapor deposition (PVD) method and a two-beam interferometer with a wavelength of 406 nm, the refractive indices of thin films of a water and nitrogen (argon) mixture were calculated in the range from 15 to 35 K. The results of temperature transformations of the obtained films from a two-beam interferometer, and thermal desorption characteristics from the temperature of condensation to the temperature of evaporation of water (15-180 K), are presented. The relationship between the signal of the interferometer, the refractive index, and the film thickness during glass transition is demonstrated.
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- Dmitriy Y. Sokolov
- Department of Thermal Physics and Technical Physics, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Al-Farabi Av. 71, Almaty 050040, Kazakhstan
- Department of Machines and Devices of Manufacturing Processes, Almaty Technological University, Tole Bi Av. 100, Almaty 050012, Kazakhstan
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- Department of Thermal Physics and Technical Physics, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Al-Farabi Av. 71, Almaty 050040, Kazakhstan
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- Department of Thermal Physics and Technical Physics, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Al-Farabi Av. 71, Almaty 050040, Kazakhstan
- Department of Machines and Devices of Manufacturing Processes, Almaty Technological University, Tole Bi Av. 100, Almaty 050012, Kazakhstan
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- Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Instituto “Nicolás Cabrera”, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
- Centro de Micro-Análisis de Materiales (CMAM), Campus de Cantoblanco, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Thermal Physics and Technical Physics, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Al-Farabi Av. 71, Almaty 050040, Kazakhstan
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Komatsu K. Neutrons meet ice polymorphs. CRYSTALLOGR REV 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/0889311x.2022.2127148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/10/2022]
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- Kazuki Komatsu
- Geochemical Research Center, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Chodkiewicz ML, Gajda R, Lavina B, Tkachev S, Prakapenka VB, Dera P, Wozniak K. Accurate crystal structure of ice VI from X-ray diffraction with Hirshfeld atom refinement. IUCRJ 2022; 9:573-579. [PMID: 36071798 PMCID: PMC9438488 DOI: 10.1107/s2052252522006662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2022] [Accepted: 06/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Water is an essential chemical compound for living organisms, and twenty of its different crystal solid forms (ices) are known. Still, there are many fundamental problems with these structures such as establishing the correct positions and thermal motions of hydrogen atoms. The list of ice structures is not yet complete as DFT calculations have suggested the existence of additional and - to date - unknown phases. In many ice structures, neither neutron diffraction nor DFT calculations nor X-ray diffraction methods can easily solve the problem of hydrogen atom disorder or accurately determine their anisotropic displacement parameters (ADPs). Here, accurate crystal structures of H2O, D2O and mixed (50%H2O/50%D2O) ice VI obtained by Hirshfeld atom refinement (HAR) of high-pressure single-crystal synchrotron and laboratory X-ray diffraction data are presented. It was possible to obtain O-H/D bond lengths and ADPs for disordered hydrogen atoms which are in good agreement with the corresponding single-crystal neutron diffraction data. These results show that HAR combined with X-ray diffraction can compete with neutron diffraction in detailed studies of polymorphic forms of ice and crystals of other hydrogen-rich compounds. As neutron diffraction is relatively expensive, requires larger crystals which can be difficult to obtain and access to neutron facilities is restricted, cheaper and more accessible X-ray measurements combined with HAR can facilitate the verification of the existing ice polymorphs and the quest for new ones.
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- Michal L. Chodkiewicz
- Biological and Chemical Research Centre, Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Żwirki i Wigury, Warszawa 02-089, Poland
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- Biological and Chemical Research Centre, Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Żwirki i Wigury, Warszawa 02-089, Poland
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- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Lemont, IL 60439, USA
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- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Lemont, IL 60439, USA
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- Hawai’i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Université d’hawaï à mānoa, 1680 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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- Hawai’i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Université d’hawaï à mānoa, 1680 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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- Biological and Chemical Research Centre, Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Żwirki i Wigury, Warszawa 02-089, Poland
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Sharma S, Thompson M, Laefer D, Lawler M, McIlhany K, Pauluis O, Trinkle DR, Chatterjee S. Machine Learning Methods for Multiscale Physics and Urban Engineering Problems. ENTROPY (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 24:1134. [PMID: 36010800 PMCID: PMC9407195 DOI: 10.3390/e24081134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2022] [Revised: 08/04/2022] [Accepted: 08/11/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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We present an overview of four challenging research areas in multiscale physics and engineering as well as four data science topics that may be developed for addressing these challenges. We focus on multiscale spatiotemporal problems in light of the importance of understanding the accompanying scientific processes and engineering ideas, where "multiscale" refers to concurrent, non-trivial and coupled models over scales separated by orders of magnitude in either space, time, energy, momenta, or any other relevant parameter. Specifically, we consider problems where the data may be obtained at various resolutions; analyzing such data and constructing coupled models led to open research questions in various applications of data science. Numeric studies are reported for one of the data science techniques discussed here for illustration, namely, on approximate Bayesian computations.
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- Somya Sharma
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 200 Union Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- School of Statistics, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 313 Ford Hall, 224 Church St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Civil and Urban Engineering, New York University, Rogers Hall RH 411, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA
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- Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy, Binghamton University, 4400 Vestal Parkway East, Binghamton, NY 13902, USA
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- Physics Department, United States Naval Academy, 572 Holloway Rd. m/s 9c, Annapolis, MD 21402, USA
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- Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, 251 Mercer Street, New York, NY 10012, USA
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- Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Illinois, 201 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green St. MC 246, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- School of Statistics, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 313 Ford Hall, 224 Church St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Javed MS, Mateen A, Ali S, Zhang X, Hussain I, Imran M, Shah SSA, Han W. The Emergence of 2D MXenes Based Zn-Ion Batteries: Recent Development and Prospects. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2022; 18:e2201989. [PMID: 35620957 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202201989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2022] [Revised: 04/29/2022] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Rechargeable zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) with exceptional theoretical capacity have garnered significant interest in large-scale electrochemical energy storage devices due to their low cost, abundant material, inherent safety, high specific energy, and ecofriendly nature. Metal carbides/nitrides, known as MXenes, have emerged as a large family of 2D transition metal carbides or carbonitrides with excellent properties, e.g., high electrical conductivity, large surface functional groups (e.g., F, O, and OH), low energy barriers for the diffusion of electrolyte ions with wide interlayer spaces. After a decade of effort, significant development has been achieved in the synthesis, properties, and applications of MXenes. Thus, it has opened up various exciting opportunities to construct advanced MXene-based nanostructures for ZIBs with excellent specific energy and power. Herein, this review summarizes the advances across multiple synthesis routes, related properties, morphological and structural characteristics, and chemistries of MXenes for ZIBs. The recent development of MXene-based electrodes is introduced, and electrolytes for ZIBs are elucidated in detail. MXene-based rocking chair ZIBs, strategies to enhance the performance of MXene-based cathodes, suppress the dendrites in MXene-based anodes, and MXene-based flexible ZIBs are pointed out. A rational design and modification of the MXenes as well as the production of composites with metal oxides exhibits promise in solving issues and enhancing the electrochemical performance of ZIBs. Finally, the present challenges and future prospects for MXene-based ZIBs are discussed.
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- Muhammad Sufyan Javed
- School of Physical Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- Department of Physics and Beijing Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion and Storage Materials, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- School of Materials and Energy, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- School of Physical Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, King Khalid University, Abha, 61413, Saudi Arabia
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- Key Laboratory of Luminescence Analysis and Molecular Sensing, Ministry of Education, School of Materials and Energy, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, P. R. China
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- School of Physical Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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Thoeny AV, Parrichini IS, Gasser TM, Loerting T. Raman Spectroscopy Study of the Slow Order-Order Transformation of Deuterium Atoms: Ice XIX Decay and Ice XV Formation. J Chem Phys 2022; 156:154507. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0087592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The novel ice polymorph ice XIX was discovered recently. We here investigate deuterated samples containing 5% H2O using Raman spectroscopy to probe for transitions associated with rearrangement of H-atoms in ice XIX. The protocol involving heating at subambient pressure (10 mbar) in this study follows closely the one used in our earlier neutron diffraction study. Heating of ice XIX induces a complex cascade of processes involving both hydrogen ordering and disordering. Our Raman spectra demonstrate that the transition sequence is ice XIX à ice VI‡ à ice XV, in accordance with our earlier neutron diffraction result. First signs for ice XIX decay are evident at 100 K, while ice XV build-up is seen only at 108 K and above. Between 100 and 108 K a transiently disordered H-substructure appears, where at 108 K ice VI‡ forms from ice XIX and simultaneously decays to produce ice XV - thereby establishing a dynamic equilibrium. Using isothermal, time-resolved Raman spectroscopy we here determine rate constants, Avrami exponents and activation energies for both slow processes, ice XIX decay and ice XV build-up. The first transition in this sequence, ice XIX decay, is faster than the second transition, ice XV build-up, so that ice VI‡ accumulates. On the basis of the data obtained from the Raman experiment we additionally report a kinetic model for the development of fractions of ices XIX, XV and VI‡ in heating experiments. This is important information to be used in understanding observations in slowly or rapidly heated ice XIX samples.
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck, Austria
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Nanayakkara S, Tao Y, Kraka E. Capturing Individual Hydrogen Bond Strengths in Ices via Periodic Local Vibrational Mode Theory: Beyond the Lattice Energy Picture. J Chem Theory Comput 2021; 18:562-579. [PMID: 34928619 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.1c00357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Local stretching force constants derived from periodic local vibrational modes at the vdW-DF2 density functional level have been employed to quantify the intrinsic hydrogen bond strength of 16 ice polymorphs, ices Ih, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVII, and XIX, that are stable under ambient to elevated pressures. Based on this characterization on 1820 hydrogen bonds, relationships between local stretching force constants and structural parameters such as hydrogen bond length and angle were identified. Moreover, different bond strength distributions, from uniform to inhomogeneous, were observed for the 16 ices and could be explained in relation to different local structural elements within ices, that is, rings, that consist of different hydrogen bond types. In addition, criteria for the classification of hydrogen bonds as strong, intermediate, and weak were introduced. The latter was used to explore a different dimension of the water-ice phase diagram. These findings will provide important guidelines for assessing the credibility of new ice structures.
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- Sadisha Nanayakkara
- Computational and Theoretical Chemistry Group (CATCO), Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University, 3215 Daniel Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75275-0314, United States
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- Computational and Theoretical Chemistry Group (CATCO), Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University, 3215 Daniel Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75275-0314, United States
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- Computational and Theoretical Chemistry Group (CATCO), Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University, 3215 Daniel Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75275-0314, United States
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Gasser TM, Thoeny AV, Greussing V, Loerting T. Calorimetric Investigation of Hydrogen-Atom Sublattice Transitions in the Ice VI/XV/XIX Trio. J Phys Chem B 2021; 125:11777-11783. [PMID: 34647740 PMCID: PMC8558864 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c07508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Ice XIX represents
the latest discovery of ice polymorphs and exists
in the medium pressure range near 1–2 GPa. Ice XIX is a partially
hydrogen-ordered phase, by contrast to its disordered mother phase
ice VI, which shares the same oxygen-atom network with ice XIX. Ice
XIX differs in terms of the ordering of the hydrogen-atom sublattice,
and hence the space group, from its hydrogen-ordered sibling ice XV,
which also features the same type of oxygen network. Together, ice
VI, XV, and XIX form the only known trio of ice polymorphs, where
polymorphic transformations from order to order, order to disorder,
and disorder to order are possible, which also compete with each other
depending on the thermodynamic path taken and the cooling/heating
rates employed. These transitions in the H-sublattice have barely
been investigated, so we study here the unique triangular relation
in the ice VI/XV/XIX trio based on calorimetry experiments. We reveal
the following key features for H-sublattice transitions: (i) upon
cooling ice VI, domains of ice XV and XIX develop simultaneously,
where pure ice XV forms at ≤0.85 GPa and pure ice XIX forms
at ≥1.60 GPa, (ii) ice XIX transforms into ice XV via a transient
disordered state, (iii) ice XV recooled at ambient pressure features
a complex domain structure, possibly containing an unknown H-ordered
polymorph, (iv) recooled ice XV partly transforms back into ice XIX
at 1.80 GPa, and (v) partial deuteration slows down domain reordering
strongly. These findings not only are of interest in understanding
possible hydrogen-ordering and -disordering processes in the interior
of icy moons and planets but, more importantly, also provide a challenging
benchmark for our understanding and parameterizing many-body interactions
in H-bonded networks.
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- Tobias M Gasser
- Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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Marshall MC, Millot M, Fratanduono DE, Sterbentz DM, Myint PC, Belof JL, Kim YJ, Coppari F, Ali SJ, Eggert JH, Smith RF, McNaney JM. Metastability of Liquid Water Freezing into Ice VII under Dynamic Compression. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 127:135701. [PMID: 34623849 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.135701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2021] [Revised: 07/23/2021] [Accepted: 08/30/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The ubiquitous nature and unusual properties of water have motivated many studies on its metastability under temperature- or pressure-induced phase transformations. Here, nanosecond compression by a high-power laser is used to create the nonequilibrium conditions where liquid water persists well into the stable region of ice VII. Through our experiments, as well as a complementary theoretical-computational analysis based on classical nucleation theory, we report that the metastability limit of liquid water under nearly isentropic compression from ambient conditions is at least 8 GPa, higher than the 7 GPa previously reported for lower loading rates.
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- M C Marshall
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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Cao D, Song Y, Tang B, Xu L. Advances in Atomic Force Microscopy: Imaging of Two- and Three-Dimensional Interfacial Water. Front Chem 2021; 9:745446. [PMID: 34631666 PMCID: PMC8493245 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2021.745446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2021] [Accepted: 09/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Interfacial water is closely related to many core scientific and technological issues, covering a broad range of fields, such as material science, geochemistry, electrochemistry and biology. The understanding of the structure and dynamics of interfacial water is the basis of dealing with a series of issues in science and technology. In recent years, atomic force microscopy (AFM) with ultrahigh resolution has become a very powerful option for the understanding of the complex structural and dynamic properties of interfacial water on solid surfaces. In this perspective, we provide an overview of the application of AFM in the study of two dimensional (2D) or three dimensional (3D) interfacial water, and present the prospect and challenges of the AFM-related techniques in experiments and simulations, in order to gain a better understanding of the physicochemical properties of interfacial water.
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- Duanyun Cao
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Environmental Science and Engineering, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
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- International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing, China
- Interdisciplinary Institute of Light-Element Quantum Materials and Research Center for Light-Element Advanced Materials, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Bartók AP, Hantal G, Pártay LB. Insight into Liquid Polymorphism from the Complex Phase Behavior of a Simple Model. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 127:015701. [PMID: 34270313 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.015701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2021] [Revised: 05/08/2021] [Accepted: 05/26/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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We systematically explored the phase behavior of the hard-core two-scale ramp model suggested by Jagla [Phys. Rev. E 63, 061501 (2001)PRESCM1539-375510.1103/PhysRevE.63.061501] using a combination of the nested sampling and free energy methods. The sampling revealed that the phase diagram of the Jagla potential is significantly richer than previously anticipated, and we identified a family of new crystalline structures, which is stable over vast regions in the phase diagram. We showed that the new melting line is located at considerably higher temperature than the boundary between the low- and high-density liquid phases, which was previously suggested to lie in a thermodynamically stable region. The newly identified crystalline phases show unexpectedly complex structural features, some of which are shared with the high-pressure ice VI phase.
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- Albert P Bartók
- Department of Physics and Warwick Centre for Predictive Modelling, School of Engineering, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Physics and Materials Science, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Peter-Jordan-Strasse 82, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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Wang XC, Zhu XL, Gu Y, Wang HC, Qin XL, Cao JW, Yu XH, Yuan XQ, Zhang P. Comparative Analysis of Hydrogen-Bonding Vibrations of Ice VI. ACS OMEGA 2021; 6:14442-14446. [PMID: 34124466 PMCID: PMC8190920 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c01315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2021] [Accepted: 05/13/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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It is difficult to investigate the hydrogen-bonding dynamics of hydrogen-disordered ice VI. Here, we present a comparative method based on our previous study of its counterpart hydrogen-ordered phase, ice XV. The primitive cell of ice XV is a 10 molecule unit, and the vibrational normal modes were analyzed individually. We constructed an 80 molecule supercell of ice VI to mimic the periodic unit and performed first-principles density functional theory calculations. As the two vibrational spectra show almost identical features, we compared the molecular translation vibrations. Inspired by the phonon analysis of ice XV, we found that the vibrational modes in the translation band of ice VI are classifiable into three groups. The lowest-strength vibration modes represent vibrations between two sublattices that lack hydrogen bonding. The highest-strength vibration modes represent the vibration of four hydrogen bonds of one molecule. The middle-strength vibration modes mainly represent the molecular vibrations of only two hydrogen bonds. Although there are many overlapping stronger and middle modes, there are only two main peaks in the inelastic neutron scattering (INS) spectra. This work explains the origin of the two main peaks in the far-infrared region of ice VI and illustrates how to analyze a hydrogen-disordered ice structure.
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Water ice exists in hugely different environments, artificially or naturally occurring ones across the universe. The phase diagram of crystalline phases of ice is still under construction: a high-pressure phase, ice XIX, has just been reported but its structure remains ambiguous.
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- Thomas C Hansen
- Institut Max von Laue-Paul Langevin, Grenoble Cedex, France.
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Salzmann CG, Loveday JS, Rosu-Finsen A, Bull CL. Structure and nature of ice XIX. Nat Commun 2021; 12:3162. [PMID: 34039987 PMCID: PMC8155070 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23399-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2020] [Accepted: 04/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Ice is a material of fundamental importance for a wide range of scientific disciplines including physics, chemistry, and biology, as well as space and materials science. A well-known feature of its phase diagram is that high-temperature phases of ice with orientational disorder of the hydrogen-bonded water molecules undergo phase transitions to their ordered counterparts upon cooling. Here, we present an example where this trend is broken. Instead, hydrochloric-acid-doped ice VI undergoes an alternative type of phase transition upon cooling at high pressure as the orientationally disordered ice remains disordered but undergoes structural distortions. As seen with in-situ neutron diffraction, the resulting phase of ice, ice XIX, forms through a Pbcn-type distortion which includes the tilting and squishing of hexameric clusters. This type of phase transition may provide an explanation for previously observed ferroelectric signatures in dielectric spectroscopy of ice VI and could be relevant for other icy materials.
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- School of Physics and Astronomy and Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- ISIS Neutron and Muon Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK
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Drużbicki K, Gaboardi M, Fernandez-Alonso F. Dynamics & Spectroscopy with Neutrons-Recent Developments & Emerging Opportunities. Polymers (Basel) 2021; 13:1440. [PMID: 33947108 PMCID: PMC8125526 DOI: 10.3390/polym13091440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2021] [Accepted: 04/27/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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This work provides an up-to-date overview of recent developments in neutron spectroscopic techniques and associated computational tools to interrogate the structural properties and dynamical behavior of complex and disordered materials, with a focus on those of a soft and polymeric nature. These have and continue to pave the way for new scientific opportunities simply thought unthinkable not so long ago, and have particularly benefited from advances in high-resolution, broadband techniques spanning energy transfers from the meV to the eV. Topical areas include the identification and robust assignment of low-energy modes underpinning functionality in soft solids and supramolecular frameworks, or the quantification in the laboratory of hitherto unexplored nuclear quantum effects dictating thermodynamic properties. In addition to novel classes of materials, we also discuss recent discoveries around water and its phase diagram, which continue to surprise us. All throughout, emphasis is placed on linking these ongoing and exciting experimental and computational developments to specific scientific questions in the context of the discovery of new materials for sustainable technologies.
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- Kacper Drużbicki
- Materials Physics Center, CSIC-UPV/EHU, Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 5, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain;
- Polish Academy of Sciences, Center of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Sienkiewicza 112, 90-363 Lodz, Poland
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- Elettra—Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., S.S. 14 km 163.5 in Area Science Park, 34149 Trieste, Italy;
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- Materials Physics Center, CSIC-UPV/EHU, Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 5, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain;
- Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 4, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
- IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Plaza Euskadi 5, 48009 Bilbao, Spain
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Experimental evidence for the existence of a second partially-ordered phase of ice VI. Nat Commun 2021; 12:1129. [PMID: 33602936 PMCID: PMC7893076 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21351-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2020] [Accepted: 01/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Ice exhibits extraordinary structural variety in its polymorphic structures. The existence of a new form of diversity in ice polymorphism has recently been debated in both experimental and theoretical studies, questioning whether hydrogen-disordered ice can transform into multiple hydrogen-ordered phases, contrary to the known one-to-one correspondence between disordered ice and its ordered phase. Here, we report a high-pressure phase, ice XIX, which is a second hydrogen-partially-ordered phase of ice VI. We demonstrate that disordered ice undergoes different manners of hydrogen ordering, which are thermodynamically controlled by pressure in the case of ice VI. Such multiplicity can appear in all disordered ice, and it widely provides a research approach to deepen our knowledge, for example of the crucial issues of ice: the centrosymmetry of hydrogen-ordered configurations and potentially induced (anti-)ferroelectricity. Ultimately, this research opens up the possibility of completing the phase diagram of ice.
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