Variation of Critical Crystallization Pressure for the Formation of Square Ice in Graphene Nanocapillaries
arXiv:2307.03450 · doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c00619
Abstract
Two-dimensional square ice in graphene nanocapillaries at room temperature is a fascinating phenomenon and has been confirmed experimentally. Instead of temperature for bulk ice, the high van der Waals pressure becomes an all-important factor to induce the formation of square ice and needs to be studied further. By all-atom molecular dynamics simulations of water confined between two parallel graphene sheets, which are changed in size (the length and the width of the graphene sheets) over a wide range, we find that the critical crystallization pressure for the formation of square ice in nanocapillary strongly depends on the size of the graphene sheet. The critical crystallization pressure slowly decreases as the graphene size increases, converging to approximately macroscopic crystallization pressure. The unfreezable threshold for graphene size is obtained by estimating the actual pressure and it is difficult to form the square ice spontaneously in practice when the graphene sheet is smaller than the threshold. Moreover, the critical crystallization pressure fluctuates when the graphene size is minuscule, and the range of oscillation narrows as the sheet size increases, converging to the macroscopic behavior of a single critical icing pressure for large sheets. The graphene size also affects the stability and crystallization time of square ice.
arXiv comment11 pages, 6 figures
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