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RESEARCH PRODUCT
Simulations clarify when supercooled water freezes into glassy structures
Kurt Bindersubject
Phase transitionMultidisciplinaryIce crystalsLiquid waterChemistryAmorphous iceThermodynamicsNon-equilibrium thermodynamicsSupercoolingPhase diagramdescription
Although liquid water is a ubiquitous substance and its properties are crucial for all living species, the precise understanding of these properties is still a matter of active scientific research. One rather mysterious aspect concerns the conditions when undercooled water freezes not into ice crystals but into glass-like structures. Based on a rather novel type of computer simulation approach, in PNAS, Limmer and Chandler (1) propose a nonequilibrium phase diagram that attempts to clarify the conditions (temperature, pressure, cooling protocol) under which one should observe transitions from undercooled water to different forms of amorphous ice.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-06-20 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |