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SUBMITTER: Bi Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5442314 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bi Yuanfei Y Cao Boxiao B Li Tianshu T
Nature communications 20170517
The freezing of water typically proceeds through impurity-mediated heterogeneous nucleation. Although non-planar geometry generically exists on the surfaces of ice nucleation centres, its role in nucleation remains poorly understood. Here we show that an atomically sharp, concave wedge can further promote ice nucleation with special wedge geometries. Our molecular analysis shows that significant enhancements of ice nucleation can emerge both when the geometry of a wedge matches the ice lattice a ...[more]