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准二维六角冰中分子堆叠的直接可视化

Direct visualization of molecular stacking in quasi-2D hexagonal ice

Yangrui Liu, Yun Li, Jing Wu, Xinyu Zhang, Pengfei Nan, Pengfei Wang, Dapeng Sun, Yumei Wang, Jinlong Zhu, Binghui Ge, Joseph S. Francisco

AI总结:

该研究利用冷冻透射电子显微镜首次直接可视化分辨准二维六角冰中的堆垛层错,结合理论计算阐明其形成机制,为原子尺度冰晶生长动力学研究提供重要支撑。

摘要:

水或冰的结构与性质因其在生物、冷冻保存及环境领域的重要性,受到研究人员的广泛关注。六角冰(Ih)是自然界中常见的冰相,已被开展大量研究,但目前仍缺乏原子或分子尺度的微观结构探究。本文利用冷冻透射电子显微镜直接观测了准二维冰Ih薄膜的精细结构。研究观测到两类薄Ih薄膜:沿[0001]方向生长的完美单晶,以及沿[11-20]取向存在堆垛层错(包括基面堆垛层错BSF和柱面堆垛层错PSF)的晶体,这些结果得到了理论计算的进一步证实。重要的是,本研究首次实现了冰Ih中堆垛层错的直接可视化与分辨。结合水分子构成的椅式构象的延伸行为,我们阐明了Ih中BSF的形成机制,即Ic相。本研究不仅在分子尺度上明确了冰结构的结构特征,还为研究人员更全面地理解原子尺度下冰晶的生长动力学提供了重要思路。

英文摘要:

The structure and properties of water or ice are of great interest to researchers due to their importance in the biological, cryopreservation and environmental fields. Hexagonal ice (Ih) is a common ice phase in nature and has been extensively studied; however, microstructural investigations at the atomic or molecular scale are still lacking. In this paper, the fine structure of quasi-2-dimensional ice Ih films was directly examined using cryogenic transmission electron microscopy. Two types of thin Ih films were observed: perfect single crystals growing along the [0001] direction and crystals with stacking faults, including both basal (BSF) and prismatic (PSF) ones, along the orientation of [11-20]; these results were further confirmed by theoretical calculations. Importantly, for the first time, the stacking faults in ice Ih were directly visualized and resolved. In light of the extension behavior of the chair conformation composed of the water molecules, we elucidated the formation mechanism of BSF in Ih, namely, the Ic phase. This study not only determined the structural characteristics of ice structure at the molecular scale but also provided important concepts for researchers to more fully understand the growth kinetics of ice crystals at the atomic scale.

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