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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| author | Alireza Hakimian Mohammadjavad Mohebinia Masoumeh Nazari Ali Davoodabadi Sina Nazifi Zixu Huang Jiming Bao Hadi Ghasemi |
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| description | 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 heterogeneous ice nucleation, which occurs at a lower temperature than homogenous bulk nucleation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-93b3228db4fa47b8b73e22baf9b74b502022-12-21T20:39:23ZengNature PortfolioNature Communications2041-17232021-11-011211810.1038/s41467-021-27346-wFreezing of few nanometers water dropletsAlireza Hakimian0Mohammadjavad Mohebinia1Masoumeh Nazari2Ali Davoodabadi3Sina Nazifi4Zixu Huang5Jiming Bao6Hadi Ghasemi7Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of HoustonDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of HoustonDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of HoustonDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of HoustonDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of HoustonDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of HoustonDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of HoustonDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of HoustonIce 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 heterogeneous ice nucleation, which occurs at a lower temperature than homogenous bulk nucleation.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27346-w |
| spellingShingle | Alireza Hakimian Mohammadjavad Mohebinia Masoumeh Nazari Ali Davoodabadi Sina Nazifi Zixu Huang Jiming Bao Hadi Ghasemi Freezing of few nanometers water droplets Nature Communications |
| title | Freezing of few nanometers water droplets |
| title_full | Freezing of few nanometers water droplets |
| title_fullStr | Freezing of few nanometers water droplets |
| title_full_unstemmed | Freezing of few nanometers water droplets |
| title_short | Freezing of few nanometers water droplets |
| title_sort | freezing of few nanometers water droplets |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27346-w |
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