Nuclei, Interfaces, and Metastability : Exploring ice formation via molecular simulation

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• Prof David Quigely, U. Warwick
• Wednesday 12 February 2020, 14:00-15:00
• Metallurgy and Materials, GA03.

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The formation of ice via freezing is key to many processes in atmospheric science, biology and other contexts. Even for an ostensibly simple process, many questions have arisen in recent years which hinder our ability to use predictive models for design of materials/processes which inhibit or control freezing. For instance, why does hexagonal ice form in preference to the cubic polytype? Are there metastable polymorphs of ice which can form in preference to common-or-garden ice 1, and what role to these play in determining how rapidly ice forms? This talk will discuss calculations which quantify parameters in classical theories of freezing and how these relate to the questions above for popular molecular models of water.

This talk is part of the Met and Mat Seminar Series series.

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