Water proton's environment in Low Density and Very High Density Amorphous Ices

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Amorphous polymorphism is one of the key concepts in our understanding of water, its structure, physical properties and anomalies. The basic idea is that liquid water at ambient conditions is constantly fluctuating between high-density and low-density domains. The high- and low-density domains cannot be isolated at ambient conditions, but it is possible to obtain phase segregation in the deeply supercooled regime at temperatures below 233 K. Here we want to look at the proton's environment in Very High Density and Low Density Amorphous ices, in term of proton mean kinetic energy and momentum distribution. The relatively large density difference between these two polymorphs, should have clear and measurable signatures in a DINS experiment. In particular, the proton mean kinetic energy could shed light on the unsolved puzzle related to the kinetic energy excess in supercooled water.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24085970
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24085970
Provenance
Creator Professor Maria Antonietta Ricci; Professor Fabio Bruni; Dr Rosaria Mancinelli; Dr Alessia Giuliani; Dr Katrin Winkel; Professor Thomas Loerting
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2014
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 Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2011-06-03T08:41:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-06-13T02:23:45Z