Transformation process of ice crystallized from a glassy dilute trehalose aqueous solution

Abstract

Metastable forms of ice and their crystal growth play an important role in meteorology, cryobiology, and planetary science. However, it is difficult to investigate the effects of solute on the...

Polarized Neutrons Observed Nanometer-Thick Crystalline Ice Plates in Frozen Glucose Solution

“…The structure of nanoice crystals is slightly different from that of bulk ice crystal, because the surface energy of nanoice crystal is non-negligibly small compared with the volumetric intermolecular energy. − Ice crystals in pure water grow so fast that it had been difficult to measure the nanoice crystals experimentally. Instead, the growth rate of the basal face of in such nanosized hexagonal ice crystal in supercooled pure water was calculated at most to be lower than that of the prism face by 31% and the secondary prism face by 41% .…”