화학공학소재연구정보센터
Chemical Physics Letters, Vol.485, No.1-3, 133-136, 2010
Imaging two-dimensional ice-like structures at room temperature
In this Letter, we report scanning force microscopy images with sufficient lateral resolution to microscopically identify the distinct ice-like structures on mica at finite humidity. The pattern calculated by Odelius et al. (1997) [1] for bilayers, e. g. a 2D ice-like structure that coincides with the unit cell of mica, was observed at molecular clusters edges and an ice-like with a hexagonal structure at its center. Other regions showing structures with a periodicity of 0.76 +/- 0.07 nm, possibly associated with a rhombohedral structure, and 0.63 +/- 0.06 nm a cubic structure, may be described as regions with compactly bonded intermixed structures. (C) 2009 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.