Structural characterization of ice XIX as the second polymorph related to ice VI

Tobias M. Gasser; Alexander V. Thoeny; A. Dominic Fortes; Thomas Loerting

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-21161-z

Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Structural characterization of ice XIX as the second polymorph related to ice VI

Tobias M. Gasser,
Alexander V. Thoeny,
A. Dominic Fortes,
Thomas Loerting

Affiliations

Tobias M. Gasser: Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck
Alexander V. Thoeny: Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck
A. Dominic Fortes: ISIS Neutron and Muon Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus
Thomas Loerting: Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21161-z
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Water ice exhibits several hydrogen-disordered phases that become ordered upon lowering the temperature, but ordering of ice VI, one of the main ice phases, is not well understood. Here the authors identify and structurally refine a partially hydrogen-ordered phase, ice XIX, obtained from ice VI, and observe its transition to its partially hydrogen-ordered sibling ice XV.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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