Freezing of few nanometers water droplets

Ice nucleation in confined geometries is a ubiquitous phenomenon, but difficult to characterize. Here the authors investigate experimentally the freezing of water nanodroplets surrounded by octane in nanopores down to 2 nm, and demonstrate that the soft curved oil-water interface suppresses heteroge...

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Main Authors: Alireza Hakimian, Mohammadjavad Mohebinia, Masoumeh Nazari, Ali Davoodabadi, Sina Nazifi, Zixu Huang, Jiming Bao, Hadi Ghasemi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27346-w