Freezing can prolong the shelf life of muscle foods and is widely used in their preservation.
However, inevitable quality deterioration can occur during freezing, frozen storage, and …

The notion of asymmetrical Hydrogen Bond (O: HO) Cooperativity and Polarizability (HBCP)
has enabled exploration of the core physics behind irregularities of water and ice …

Existing polyamide (PA) membrane synthesis protocols are underpinned by controlling
diffusion-dominant liquid-phase reactions that yield subpar spatial architectures and …

From a glass of water to glaciers in Antarctica, water–air and ice–air interfaces are abundant
on Earth. Molecular-level structure and dynamics at these interfaces are key for …

Ice adhesion plays a crucial role in the performance of materials under outdoor conditions,
where the mitigation of snow and ice accumulation or spontaneous shedding of solid water …

Water-solid interfaces play important roles across a broad range of scientific and application
fields. In the past decades, atomic force microscopy (AFM) has significantly deepened our …

The slipperiness of ice is an everyday-life phenomenon, which, surprisingly, remains
controversial despite a long scientific history. The very small friction measured on ice is …

Nanoconfined waters exhibit low static permittivity mainly due to interfacial effects that span
about one nanometer. The characteristic length scale may be much longer in the terahertz …

Since two major criteria for melting were proposed by Lindemann and Born in the early
1900s, many simulations and observations have been carried out to elucidate the …

Experiments and computer simulations have established that liquid water's surfaces can
deviate in important ways from familiar bulk behavior. Even in the simplest case of an air …