How ice grows from premelting films and water droplets

DN Sibley, P Llombart, EG Noya, AJ Archer… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
… Here, we develop a mesoscopic model of liquid-film mediated ice growth, and identify the …
In particular, our results demonstrate that the complex dynamics of a buried solid surface …

Premelting layer during ice growth: role of clusters

S Cui, H Chen, Z Zhao - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
… QLL is usually considered as something between ice and water). We find that the co-existence
of … surfaces though, due to the complex structure and dynamics of the QLL. By utilizing the …

Surface premelting of ice far below the triple point

Y Lin, T Zhou, ND Rosenmann, L Yu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
… nanocrystals grown on the amorphous carbon film, it is difficult to study when and how ice
2E), we find the T s for these grains to be 148 K, where a sharp decrease in the projected area …

Transition dynamics and metastable states during premelting and freezing of ice surfaces

S Cui, H Chen - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
… and solid surfaces, and none have provided a microscopic description as far as we know. …
However, currently it is difficult to remove this ambiguity, as we have to rely on empirical …

Biolocomotion and premelting in ice

J Vachier, JS Wettlaufer - Frontiers in Physics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… When this ratio is large we find a complex modulation of regelation by chemotaxis, and
when small, due to increased surface impurity concentration, leads to regelation dominated …

Premelting of ice adsorbed on a rock surface

V Esteso, S Carretero-Palacios… - Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
premelting layer on ice surfaces predicted by Elbaum and Schick. Our study reveals a more
complex and … we find two families of solutions corresponding to a water growth mode and an …

Prediction of the unfrozen water content in soils based on premelting theory

X Wan, W Pei, J Lu, X Zhang, Z Yan, N Pirhadi - Journal of Hydrology, 2022 - Elsevier
premelting of contact ice, the soil particles, the melting of the … Impurities and surface charge
measurement can determine … It is more difficult for the pore water of soil particles with a …

Intermolecular forces at ice and water interfaces: Premelting, surface freezing, and regelation

J Luengo-Márquez, F Izquierdo-Ruiz… - The Journal of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
… In view of these difficulties, here we revisit the role of van der … Not unexpectedly, we find that
the understanding gained in … results to the understanding of ice premelting, regelation, and …

Rounded layering transitions on the surface of ice

P Llombart, EG Noya, DN Sibley, AJ Archer… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
… structure of the underlying ice lattice. To show this, we describe the premelting liquid layer in
terms of … Molinero, Why is it so difficult to identify the onset of ice premelting, J. Phys. Chem. …

Edge premelting of two-dimensional ices

H Qiu, W Zhao, W Zhou, W Guo - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
… work is the first one concentrating on the water/ice phases involving complex hydrogen
bond networks. … In addition, we find that the fluctuations of two interfaces on two sides of the …