Amorphous ices: experiments and numerical simulations

T Loerting, N Giovambattista - Journal of physics: Condensed …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
Polyamorphism, ie the presence of more than one amorphous state, was observed for the
first time in amorphous ice or glassy water. In addition to LDA (low-density amorphous ice), a …

Pressure-induced amorphization and polyamorphism: Inorganic and biochemical systems

D Machon, F Meersman, MC Wilding, M Wilson… - Progress in Materials …, 2014 - Elsevier
Pressure-induced amorphization (PIA) is a phenomenon that involves an abrupt transition
between a crystalline material and an amorphous solid through application of pressure at …

How many amorphous ices are there?

T Loerting, K Winkel, M Seidl, M Bauer… - Physical Chemistry …, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Many acronyms are used in the literature for describing different kinds of amorphous ice,
mainly because many different preparation routes and many different sample histories need …

Annealed high-density amorphous ice under pressure

RJ Nelmes, JS Loveday, T Strässle, CL Bull, M Guthrie… - Nature Physics, 2006 - nature.com
The well-known expansion of water on cooling below 277 K is one of several peculiar
properties that could signal a second critical point near 220 K and 0.1 GPa in pressure, deep …

Equilibrated high-density amorphous ice and its first-order transition to the low-density form

K Winkel, E Mayer, T Loerting - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2011 - ACS Publications
We investigate the downstroke transition from high-(HDA) to low-density amorphous ice
(LDA) at 140 (H2O) and 143 K (D2O). The visual observation of sudden phase separation at …

X-ray scattering and O–O pair-distribution functions of amorphous ices

D Mariedahl, F Perakis, A Späh… - The Journal of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The structure factor and oxygen–oxygen pair-distribution functions of amorphous ices at
liquid nitrogen temperature (T= 77 K) have been derived from wide-angle X-ray scattering …

Structural studies and polymorphism in amorphous solids and liquids at high pressure

MC Wilding, M Wilson, PF McMillan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2006 - pubs.rsc.org
When amorphous materials are compressed their structures are expected to change in
response to densification. In some cases, the changes in amorphous structure can be …

Nature of the polyamorphic transition in ice under pressure

S Klotz, T Strässle, RJ Nelmes, JS Loveday, G Hamel… - Physical review …, 2005 - APS
We present a neutron diffraction study of the transition between low-density and high-density
amorphous ice (LDA and HDA, respectively) under pressure at∼ 0.3 GP a, at 130 K. All the …

A review of high‐energy X‐ray diffraction from glasses and liquids

CJ Benmore - International Scholarly Research Notices, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This paper summarizes the scientific trends associated with the rapid development of the
technique of high‐energy X‐ray diffraction over the past decade pertaining to the field of …

Evidence for liquid water during the high-density to low-density amorphous ice transition

CU Kim, B Barstow, MW Tate… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
Polymorphism of water has been extensively studied, but controversy still exists over the
phase transition between high-density amorphous (HDA) and low-density amorphous (LDA) …