What processes dominate porosity and structure evolution in Amorphous Solid Water (ASW)?

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This experiment will measure the microstructure of Amorphous Solid Water (ASW), a porous material that can be formed by vapour-depositing water onto a cold plate, an excellent analogue of the ice found in star- and planet-forming regions of our galaxy. The thermal and temporal evolution of this metastable condensed-matter material has major implications in the physical and chemical role ices play in astrophysical environments. Our previous work on ISIS NIMROD has shown that the ASW has very small-scale porosity, and hints at larger scale structure of the material. With NIMROD data alone we are unable to elucidate whether the pores collapse or aggregate, a "hot" debate in the ice literature. This experiment tests ASW porosity scales and exploits the broad Q-range of SANS2d, with higher Q data providing a direct overlap to our earlier results obtained on NIMROD.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.101137104
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/101137104
Provenance
Creator Dr Sarah Rogers; Dr Pierre Ghesquiere; Dr Ragesh Kumar TP; Dr Helen Fraser
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2022
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-02-06T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-02-11T09:02:36Z