Ice nucleation at the nanoscale probes no man's land of water

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Li, Tianshu ^a   Donadio, Davide ^b   Galli, Giulia ^c  

^a George Washington University   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

CRYSTALLIZATION; DROPLET; ICE CRYSTAL; MAGNITUDE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NUCLEATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; CLOUD; CRYSTALLIZATION; DENSITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEATION; PRESSURE; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84878683183     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2918     Document Type: Article

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