4 papers
An Ice Christmas Tree: Fast Three-Dimensional Printing of Ice Structures via Evaporative Cooling in Vacuum
Menno Demmenie, Stefan Kooij, Daniel Bonn
We demonstrate a novel approach to three-dimensional (3D) printing of freeform ice structures by exploiting evaporative cooling. A micrometer-sized water jet is used to 3D print in…
Damage due to Ice Crystallization
Menno Demmenie, Paul Kolpakov, Boaz van Casteren +3
The freezing of water is one of the major causes of mechanical damage in materials during wintertime; surprisingly this happens even in situations where water only partially satura…
Floppy hydrated salt microcrystals
Rozeline Wijnhorst, Menno Demmenie, Etienne Jambon-Puillet +3
The crystalline structure of minerals due to the highly ordered assembly of its constituent atoms, ions or molecules confers a considerable hardness and brittleness to the material…
Self-Healing Behavior of Ice
Menno Demmenie, Paul Kolpakov, Yuki Nagata +2
We show that the surface of ice is self-healing: micrometer deep scratches in the ice surface spontaneously disappear by relaxation on a time scale of roughly an hour. Following th…