Structural and dynamical properties of nanoconfined supercooled water
Soft Condensed Matter
2011-02-15 v1
Abstract
Bulk water presents a large number of crystalline and amorphous ices. Hydrophobic nanoconfinement is known to affect the tendency of water to form ice and to reduce the melting temperature. However, a systematic study of the ice phases in nanoconfinement is hampered by the computational cost of simulations at very low temperatures. Here we develop a coarse-grained model for a water monolayer in hydrophobic nanoconfinement and study the formation of ice by Mote Carlo simulations. We find two ice phases: low-density-crystal ice at low pressure and high-density hexatic ice at high pressure, an intermediate phase between liquid and high-density-crystal ice.
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@article{arxiv.1102.2864,
title = {Structural and dynamical properties of nanoconfined supercooled water},
author = {Oriol Vilanova and Giancarlo Franzese},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.2864},
year = {2011}
}