Interfacial melting of ice in contact with SiO2 has been studied with a novel high-energy x-ray microbeam diffraction scheme. Ice and water are abundant on Earth, of paramount importance for the biosphere, and part of our everyday life. Despite the apparent simplicity of the water molecule, H2O has astonishing and often anomalous properties of which many are still not completely understood. The melting of ice is of particular interest and is known to show surface melting, i.e. the appearance of a thin (quasi)liquid layer at the surface of ice at temperatures below the bulk melting point. In this study, the melting of ice in contact with another solid material, SiO2, has been investigated. This system might serve as a model for ice-rock inte...
Considering ice-premelting on a quartz rock surface (i.e. silica) we calculate the Lifshitz excess p...
Amorphous ices govern a range of cosmological processes and are potentially key materials for explai...
We present measurements of the growth rates of the principal facet surfaces of ice from water vapor...
In this work, the interfacial structure of water in contact with hydrophobic substrates has been stu...
Ice is ubiquitous in nature and all around us. Of particular interest is the surface, where interact...
By exploiting the potential of highly brilliant Synchrotron X-radiation, and taking advantage of oxy...
The structure of the water layer between the ice interface and the hydroxylated amorphous/crystallin...
This thesis presents experimental studies of water and ice at near-atmospheric pressures using inten...
A vast amount of ice exists on the earth, and surface melting of ice forms thin liquid water layers,...
In this thesis, the interfacial melting phenomenon of ice in nanocomposite materials is studied by h...
The direct observation of the structure of micrometer-sized vapor-deposited ice is performed at Poha...
Amorphous solid water plays an important role in our overall understanding of water's phase dia...
The effect of crystal growth conditions on the O K-edge x-ray absorption spectra of ice is investiga...
This dissertation studies the silica/water interface using sum frequency generation spectroscopy. Th...
The nucleation, growth, structure and melting of ice in 3 nm diameter hydrophilic nanopores are stud...
Considering ice-premelting on a quartz rock surface (i.e. silica) we calculate the Lifshitz excess p...
Amorphous ices govern a range of cosmological processes and are potentially key materials for explai...
We present measurements of the growth rates of the principal facet surfaces of ice from water vapor...
In this work, the interfacial structure of water in contact with hydrophobic substrates has been stu...
Ice is ubiquitous in nature and all around us. Of particular interest is the surface, where interact...
By exploiting the potential of highly brilliant Synchrotron X-radiation, and taking advantage of oxy...
The structure of the water layer between the ice interface and the hydroxylated amorphous/crystallin...
This thesis presents experimental studies of water and ice at near-atmospheric pressures using inten...
A vast amount of ice exists on the earth, and surface melting of ice forms thin liquid water layers,...
In this thesis, the interfacial melting phenomenon of ice in nanocomposite materials is studied by h...
The direct observation of the structure of micrometer-sized vapor-deposited ice is performed at Poha...
Amorphous solid water plays an important role in our overall understanding of water's phase dia...
The effect of crystal growth conditions on the O K-edge x-ray absorption spectra of ice is investiga...
This dissertation studies the silica/water interface using sum frequency generation spectroscopy. Th...
The nucleation, growth, structure and melting of ice in 3 nm diameter hydrophilic nanopores are stud...
Considering ice-premelting on a quartz rock surface (i.e. silica) we calculate the Lifshitz excess p...
Amorphous ices govern a range of cosmological processes and are potentially key materials for explai...
We present measurements of the growth rates of the principal facet surfaces of ice from water vapor...