Melting the ice: On the relation between melting temperature and size for nanoscale ice crystals

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 4562-4569

  Pan, Ding ^a,d   Liu, Li Min ^b   Slater, Ben ^b   Michaelides, Angelos ^b   Wang, Enge ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

finite size effects; ice; melting; molecular dynamics; nanocrystal; premelting; water

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; BULK ICE; CRYSTAL SIZE AND MORPHOLOGY; DEGREE OF COORDINATION; FINITE SIZE EFFECT; FLAT SURFACES; HEXAGONAL ICE; ICE CRYSTALS; ICE MELTING; ICE NANOCRYSTALS; ICE PARTICLES; NANO SCALE; NANO-SIZED; PRE-MELTING; SIZE DEPENDENCE; SIZE RANGES; SMALL PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE REACTIVITY;

CRYSTALS; MELTING POINT; METAL MELTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

ICE;

EID: 79959795257     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn200252w     Document Type: Article

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