Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Room temperature electrofreezing of water yields a missing dense ice phase in the phase diagram

  • Weiduo Zhu,
  • Yingying Huang,
  • Chongqin Zhu,
  • Hong-Hui Wu,
  • Lu Wang,
  • Jaeil Bai,
  • Jinlong Yang,
  • Joseph S. Francisco,
  • Jijun Zhao,
  • Lan-Feng Yuan,
  • Xiao Cheng Zeng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09950-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Water can crystallize in different ice polymorphs according to temperature and pressure conditions. Here the authors predict by molecular dynamics simulations a new ice phase spontaneously forming at room temperature under high pressure and high electric field.