Is ice nucleation from supercooled water insensitive to surface roughness?

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1164-1169

  Campbell, James M ^a   Meldrum, Fiona C ^a   Christenson, Hugo K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREEZING; GLASS; ICE; LIQUIDS; MICA; SILICATE MINERALS; SILICON; SUBSTRATES; SUPERCOOLING; SURFACE DEFECTS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CRYSTAL NUCLEATION; FREEZING TEMPERATURES; INTERFACIAL FREE ENERGY; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; SMOOTH SUBSTRATES; SUPERCOOLED WATER; SURFACE-ROUGHENING; TWO-STEP MECHANISMS;

NUCLEATION;

EID: 84921260624     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp5113729     Document Type: Article

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