Controlled nucleation and quasi-ordered growth of ice crystals from low temperature electrolyte solutions

ABSTRACT The process by which ice forms during the cooling of water and aqueous solutions has been studied intensively mostly in conditions where the nucleation occurs heterogeneously—on

some particulate impurity surface. When the more fundamental homogeneous process has been deliberately investigated1–3 it has nearly always been in conditions in which the crystallization

process, once initiated, occurs with great rapidity1,2. Seeking an additional ‘degree of freedom’ in the investigation of this important phenomenon, we have initiated the crystallization in

conditions where the growth is extremely slow and the nucleation events can be controlled. Our observations are described below. Access through your institution Buy or subscribe This is a

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AFFILIATIONS * Laboratoire de Physique des Materiaux, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France J. Dupuy, J. F. Jal & C. Ferradou * Institut Laue-Langevin, Avenue des Martyrs, Grenoble

Cedex, 38042, France P. Chieux & A. F. Wright * Service des Basses Temperatures, Laboratoire de Cryophysique, Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Grenoble, Grenoble Cedex, 85 X, 38041,

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