Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Fast methane diffusion at the interface of two clathrate structures

  • Umbertoluca Ranieri,
  • Michael Marek Koza,
  • Werner F. Kuhs,
  • Stefan Klotz,
  • Andrzej Falenty,
  • Philippe Gillet,
  • Livia E. Bove

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01167-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Methane dynamics at the interface of ice clathrate structures is expected to play a role in phenomena ranging from gas exchange to methane mobility in planetary cryospheres. Here, the authors observe extremely fast methane diffusion at the interface of the two most common clathrate hydrate structures.