An insight into the ice nucleation process via design of crystalline ice nucleators of variable size

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 101, Issue 44, 1997, Pages 8874-8877

  Majewski, Jaroslaw ^a,d   Popovitz Biro, Ronit ^a   Edgar, Ron ^a   Arbel Haddad, Michal ^a   Kjaer, Kristian ^b   Bouwman, Wim ^b   Als Nielsen, Jens ^c   Lahav, Meir ^a   Leiserowitz, Leslie ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; ALCOHOLS; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; ICE; MONOLAYERS; WATER;

ICE NUCLEATOR; PERFLUORO ALCOHOLS;

NUCLEATION;

EID: 0031245860     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp971295e     Document Type: Article

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