Brief Overview of Ice Nucleation
Molecules, 2021 The nucleation of ice is vital in cloud physics and impacts on a broad range of matters from the cryopreservation of food, tissues, organs, and stem cells to the prevention of icing on aircraft wings, bridge cables, wind turbines, and other structures ...
Nobuo Maeda
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Ice nucleation on microcline (001) in the absence of active sites [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsOf the many different ice-nucleating mineral particles, dust from feldspar mineral microcline stands out as being particularly active. However, why microcline outperforms other particles remains a puzzle.
Florian Schneider +7 more
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Biochemical characterization of a fungal ice nucleation protein from Podila clonocystis [PDF]
Scientific ReportsBiological ice nucleation plays a pivotal role in atmospheric processes, yet the molecular basis of fungal ice nucleation remains poorly understood. We report the biochemical characterization of an ice nucleation protein (PcINP) from the soil-dwelling ...
Brenna J. C. Walsh +7 more
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Atomistic and coarse-grained simulations reveal increased ice nucleation activity on silver iodide surfaces in slit and wedge geometries [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2022 Ice clouds can form at low and moderate supercooling through heterogeneous ice nucleation on atmospheric particles. Typically, the nucleation requires active sites with special chemical and physical properties, including surface topology and roughness ...
G. Roudsari +3 more
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Experimental methodology and procedure for SAPPHIRE: a Semi-automatic APParatus for High-voltage Ice nucleation REsearch [PDF]
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2021 Ice nucleation is of great interest for various processes such as cloud formation in the scope of atmospheric physics, and icing of airplanes, ships, or structures.
J.-M. Löwe +3 more
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Ice nucleating properties of the sea ice diatom Fragilariopsis cylindrus and its exudates [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2023 In this study, we investigated the ice nucleation activity of the Antarctic sea ice diatom Fragilariopsis cylindrus. Diatoms are the main primary producers of organic carbon in the Southern Ocean, and the Antarctic sea ice diatom F.
L. Eickhoff +5 more
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Technical note: Fundamental aspects of ice nucleation via pore condensation and freezing including Laplace pressure and growth into macroscopic ice [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2020 Pore condensation and freezing (PCF) is an ice nucleation mechanism that explains ice formation at low ice supersaturation. It assumes that liquid water condenses in pores of solid aerosol particles below water saturation, as described by the Kelvin ...
C. Marcolli
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On the ice nucleation spectrum [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2012 This work presents a novel formulation of the ice nucleation spectrum, i.e. the function relating the ice crystal concentration to cloud formation conditions and aerosol properties.
D. Barahona
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Primary and secondary ice production: interactions and their relative importance [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2022 A discrepancy of up to 5 orders of magnitude between ice crystal and ice nucleating particle (INP) number concentrations was found in the measurements, indicating the potentially important role of secondary ice production (SIP) in the clouds.
X. Zhao, X. Liu
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On the thermodynamic and kinetic aspects of immersion ice nucleation [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2018 Heterogeneous ice nucleation initiated by particles immersed within droplets is likely the main pathway of ice formation in the atmosphere. Theoretical models commonly used to describe this process assume that it mimics ice formation from the vapor ...
D. Barahona
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