• 文献标题:   Effect of Graphene on Ice Polymorph
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHENG CB, LU H, XU QM, LIU TY, PATIL A, WU JY, DE VRIES R, ZUILHOF H, ZHANG ZS
  • 作者关键词:   heterogeneous nucleation, ice polymorph, stacking disorder, phase selectivity
  • 出版物名称:   CRYSTALS
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  • 被引频次:   3
  • DOI:   10.3390/cryst11091134
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

Recently, ice with stacking disorder structure, consisting of random sequences of cubic ice (I-c) and hexagonal ice (I-h) layers, was reported to be more stable than pure I-h/I-c. Due to a much lower free energy barrier of heterogeneous nucleation, in practice, the freezing process of water is controlled by heterogeneous nucleation triggered by an external medium. Therefore, we carry out molecular dynamic simulations to explore how ice polymorphism depends on the lattice structure of the crystalline substrates on which the ice is grown, focusing on the primary source of atmospheric aerosols, carbon materials. It turns out that, during the nucleation stage, the polymorph of ice nuclei is strongly affected by graphene substrates. For ice nucleation on graphene, we find I-h is the dominant polymorph. This can be attributed to structural similarities between graphene and basal face of I-h. Our results also suggest that the substrate only affects the polymorph of ice close to the graphene surface, with the preference for I-h diminishing as the ice layer grows.