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SUBMITTER: Sun Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3421189 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sun Zhaoru Z Pan Ding D Xu Limei L Wang Enge E
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120725 33
Adsorption of polar monomers on ice surface, relevant to the physical/chemical reaction in ice clouds as well as growth of ice, remains an open issue partially due to the unusual surface characteristics with protons at the top layer of ice. Using first-principle calculations, we explore the adsorption properties of ice surface in terms of a surface proton order parameter, which characterizes the inhomogeneity of the dangling atoms on ice surface. We show that, due to an effective electric field ...[more]