Monolayer Ice
- 8 July 2003
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 91 (2), 025502
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.91.025502
Abstract
We report results from molecular dynamics simulations of water under confinement and at ambient conditions that predict a first-order freezing transition from a monolayer of liquid water to a monolayer of ice induced by increasing the distance between the confining parallel plates. Since a slab geometry is incompatible with a tetrahedral arrangement of the hybridized oxygen of water, the freezing is coupled to a linear buckling transition. By exploiting the ordered out-of-plane displacement of the molecules in the buckled phase the distortion of the hydrogen bonds is minimized.
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