Nature Communications (Nov 2016)

New porous water ice metastable at atmospheric pressure obtained by emptying a hydrogen-filled ice

  • Leonardo del Rosso,
  • Milva Celli,
  • Lorenzo Ulivi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13394
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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By trapping guest molecules, solid water shows peculiar structures in addition to the known fifteen forms of ice at different conditions. Here, the authors report a new porous ice phase, termed ice XVII, which is metastable at ambient pressure and is able to adsorb and release hydrogen reversibly.