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SUBMITTER: Murata KI
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5098609 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Murata Ken-Ichiro KI Asakawa Harutoshi H Nagashima Ken K Furukawa Yoshinori Y Sazaki Gen G
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20161017 44
Since the pioneering prediction of surface melting by Michael Faraday, it has been widely accepted that thin water layers, called quasi-liquid layers (QLLs), homogeneously and completely wet ice surfaces. Contrary to this conventional wisdom, here we both theoretically and experimentally demonstrate that QLLs have more than two wetting states and that there is a first-order wetting transition between them. Furthermore, we find that QLLs are born not only under supersaturated conditions, as recen ...[more]