Producing desired ice faces
Producing desired ice faces
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制作所需的冰面
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发表时间:
2015
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
Ryan Shultz
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作者:
M. Shultz;Alexandra Brumberg;P. Bisson;Ryan Shultz
Significance The molecular-level structure of ice––bonding patterns, binding sites, and molecular mobility––is difficult to probe experimentally due to challenges preparing faces of neat ice. One approach is to grow ice on a substrate. However, ice is held together by hydrogen bonds; a substrate perturbs the connections and radically alters the surface properties. This work shows how to quantitatively specify orientation of the ice lattice with respect to a surface. More importantly, based on recent success growing large single crystals, it shows how to prepare any desired face from the initial crystal surface orientation. A general procedure for preparing any arbitrary face is described. The procedure is used to prepare all three major faces from various initial orientations. The ability to prepare single-crystal faces has become central to developing and testing models for chemistry at interfaces, spectacularly demonstrated by heterogeneous catalysis and nanoscience. This ability has been hampered for hexagonal ice, Ih––a fundamental hydrogen-bonded surface––due to two characteristics of ice: ice does not readily cleave along a crystal lattice plane and properties of ice grown on a substrate can differ significantly from those of neat ice. This work describes laboratory-based methods both to determine the Ih crystal lattice orientation relative to a surface and to use that orientation to prepare any desired face. The work builds on previous results attaining nearly 100% yield of high-quality, single-crystal boules. With these methods, researchers can prepare authentic, single-crystal ice surfaces for numerous studies including uptake measurements, surface reactivity, and catalytic activity of this ubiquitous, fundamental solid.
影响因子:
3.4
作者:
Miyamoto;Weikusat;Hondoh
通讯作者:
Hondoh