Anomalous behavior of the homogeneous ice nucleation rate in "no-man's land"

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 2826-2832

  Laksmono, Hartawan ^a   McQueen, Trevor A ^a,b   Sellberg, Jonas A ^a,c   Loh, N Duane ^a,d   Huang, Congcong ^e   Schlesinger, Daniel ^c   Sierra, Raymond G ^a   Hampton, Christina Y ^a   Nordlund, Dennis ^e   Beye, Martin ^a,f   Martin, Andrew V ^g   Barty, Anton ^g   Seibert, M Marvin ^a   Messerschmidt, Marc ^a,h   Williams, Garth J ^a   Boutet, Sébastien ^a   Amann Winkel, Katrin ^c,i   Loerting, Thomas ⁱ   Pettersson, Lars G M ^c   Bogan, Michael J ^a   Nilsson, Anders ^a,c,e   more..

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ALBANOVA UNIVERSITY CENTER   (Sweden)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^f HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^g DESY   (Germany)

^h NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

diffusivity; fragile to strong liquid transition; homogeneous ice nucleation; supercooled water; X ray free electron laser

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; ELECTRONS; FREE ELECTRON LASERS; LIGHT SOURCES; NUCLEATION; X RAY LASERS;

FRAGILE-TO-STRONG LIQUID TRANSITION; ICE NUCLEATION; ICE NUCLEATION RATES; LINAC COHERENT LIGHT SOURCE; SUPERCOOLED WATER; TEMPERATURE DECREASE; TRANSITION ANOMALIES; X-RAY FREE ELECTRON LASERS;

ICE;

EID: 84937159811     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01164     Document Type: Article

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