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Physics and Chemistry of Ice is an authoritative summary of state-of the-art research contributions from the world's leading scientists. A key selection of submissions from the 11th International Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Ice, 2006 are presented here with a foreword by Werner F. Kuhs. An invaluable resource, this book provides researchers and professionals with up-to-date coverage on a wide range of areas in ice science including: *Spectroscopic and diffraction studies *Molecular dynamics simulations *Studies of Ice Mechanics *Quantum mechanical ab initio calculations *Ice and hydrate crystal growth and inhibition studies *Bulk and surface properties of ice and gas hydrates *Snow physics and chemistry This insight into topical aspects of ice research is a key point of reference for physicists, chemists, glaciologists, cryo-biologists and professionals working in the fields of ice and hydrogen bonding.

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Author:   Prof. Werner Kuhs (Universität Gottingen, Germany)
Publisher:   Royal Society of Chemistry
Imprint:   Royal Society of Chemistry
Volume:   v. 311
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.208kg
ISBN:  

9780854043507

ISBN 10:   0854043500
Pages:   718
Publication Date:   08 May 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Invited Papers: MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS OF GAS HYDRATE NUCLEATION; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ICE WITH EMPHASIS ON AGGREGATION/ INTERACTION WITH ORGANIC MATTER: COLLISIONAL AND ACCRETIONAL PROPERTIES OF MODEL PARTICLES; INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SNOW METAMORPHISM AND CLIMATE: PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL ASPECTS; ICE ADHESION AND ICE FRICTION MODIFICATION USING PULSED THERMAL POWER; IMPROVING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF GAS HYDRATE FORMATION PROCESSES: THE IMPORTANCE OF MULTI-TECHNIQUE APPROACHES; FAST THERMAL DESORPTION SPECTROSCOPY AND MICROCALORIMETRY: NEW TOOLS TO UNCOVER MYSTERIES OF ICE; SELECTION FOR 'ICE RESISTANCE', ANTIFREEZE PROTEINS AND ICE OR HYDRATE INHIBITION; Contributed Papers: RAMAN SCATTERING STUDY OF PROTON ORDERED ICE-XI SINGLE CRYSTAL; ON THE PERFORMANCE OF SIMPLE PLANAR MODELS OF WATER IN THE VAPOR AND THE ICE PHASES; PHASES OF SUPERCOOLED LIQUID WATER; USING GAUSSIAN CURVATURE FOR THE 3D SEGMENTATION OF SNOW GRAINS FROM MICROTOMOGRAPHIC DATA; ETHANOL HYDRATES FORMED BY GAS CONDENSATION: INVESTIGATIONS BY RAMAN SCATTERING AND X-RAY DIFFRACTION; DISLOCATION PATTERNING AND DEFORMATION PROCESSES IN ICE SINGLE CRYSTALS DEFORMED BY TORSION;FORMATION OF CARBON DIOXIDE GAS HYDRATES IN FREEZING SEDIMENTS AND DECOMPOSITION KINETICS OF THE HYDRATES FORMED; FIRST-PRINCIPLES STUDY OF BJERRUM DEFECTS IN ICE Ih: AN ANALYSIS OF FORMATION AND MIGRATION PROPERTIES; FIRST-PRINCIPLES STUDY OF MOLECULAR POINT DEFECTS IN ICE Ih: INTERSTITIAL VS. VACANCY; FROM ICE TO CO2 HYDRATES AND BACK - STUDY OF NUCLEATION AND INITIAL GROWTH USING SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THE TEMPERATURE GRADIENT METAMORPHISM OF SNOW: MODEL AND FIRST VALIDATIONS USING X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; SUM FREQUENCY GENERATION ON SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE ICE Ih; MODELLING ICE Ic OF DIFFERENT ORIGIN AND STACKING-FAULTED HEXAGONAL ICE USING NEUTRON POWDER DIFFRACTION DATA; FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES FOR A NEW H2 SEPARATION METHOD USING GAS HYDRATES; SEGREGATION OF SALT IONS AT AMORPHOUS SOLID AND LIQUID SURFACES; THEORETICAL STUDY ON GASES IN HEXAGONAL ICE INVESTIGATED BY THE MOLECULAR ORBITAL METHOD; DEVELOPMENT OF IN SITU LOW TEMPERATURE INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY FOR A STUDY OF METHANE HYDRATE; A MECHANISM FOR PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS IN THE QUASI-LIQUID LAYER OF SNOW CRYSTALS IN POLAR REGIONS; TOPOLOGICAL TRANSITIONS BETWEEN ICE PHASES; THE IMPORTANCE OF O-O BONDING INTERACTIONS IN VARIOUS PHASES OF ICE; THE CHEMICAL CHARACTER OF VERY HIGH PRESSURE ICE PHASES; REAL-SPACE STUDY OF MECHANICAL INSTABILITY OF ICE XI ON A 'BOND-BY-BOND' BASIS; WATER-VAPOR TRANSPORT IN SNOW WITH HIGH TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; EXPERIMENTAL GEOSCIENCE IN A FREEZER: ICE AND ICY COMPOUNDS AS USEFUL EDUCATIONAL ANALOGUES FOR TEACHING EARTH AND PLANETARY MATERIALS SCIENCE AND THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES; CLASSIFICATION OF LOW-ENERGY CONFIGURATIONS OF POLYHEDRAL WATER CLUSTERS FROM CUBE UP TO BACKMINSTERFULLERENE; ENERGY OPTIMIZATION OF GAS HYDRATE FRAMEWORKS ON THE BASIS OF DISCRETE MODELS OF INTER-MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; MICROSTRUCTURE OF GAS HYDRATES IN POROUS MEDIA; TACKLING THE PROBLEM OF HYDROGEN BOND ORDER AND DISORDER IN ICE; THEORETICAL STUDY OF A HYDROXIDE ION WITHIN THE ICE-Ih LATTICE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY OF REARRANGING ICE SURFACES; IONISATION OF HCl ON ICE AT VERY LOW TEMPERATURE; EFFECTS OF LARGE GUEST SPECIES ON THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF STRUCTURE-H HYDRATES; PREDICTION OF THE CELLULAR MICROSTRUCTURE OF SEA ICE BY MORPHOLOGICAL STABILITY THEORY; THE PLANAR-CELLULAR TRANSITION DURING FREEZING OF NATURAL WATERS; CRYSTAL GROWTH OF ICE-I/HYDRATE EUTECTIC BINARY SOLUTIONS; X-RAY TOMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERIZATION OF IMPURITIES IN POLYCRYSTALLINE ICE; EFFECTS OF ADDITIVES AND COOLING RATES ON CRYOPRESERVATION PROCESS OF RAT CORTICAL CELLS; LABORATORY STUDIES OF THE FORMATION OF CUBIC ICE IN AQUEOUS DROPLETS; HYDRATE PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS IMPOSED BY GAS EXCHANGE; MECHANISM OF CAGE FORMATION DURING GROWTH OF CH4 AND Xe CLATHRATE HYDRATES: A MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDY; GROWTH KINETICS ON INTERFACE BETWEEN { } PLANE OF ICE AND WATER INVESTIGATED BY A MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; CHOOSING AN APPROPRIATE WATER MODEL FOR USE IN BIOMOLECULAR SIMULATIONS; MICRO-RAMAN STUDY OF AIR CLATHRATE HYDRATES IN POLAR ICE FROM DOME FUJI, ANTARCTICA; HIGH PRESSURE NMR OF HYDROGEN-FILLED ICES BY DIAMOND ANVIL CELL; ON THE USE OF THE KIHARA POTENTIAL FOR HYDRATE EQUILIBRIUM CALCULATIONS; A NEW STRUCTURE OF AMORPHOUS ICE PROMOTED BY RADIATIONS; THE RADICAL CHEMISTRY IN IRRADIATED ICE; SPEEDSKATE ICE FRICTION: REVIEW AND NUMERICAL MODEL - FAST 1.0; FIRST PRINCIPLES COMPUTATIONAL STUDY OF HYDROGEN BONDS IN ICE Ih; FREEZING OF WATER ON ?-Al2O3 SURFACES; NEW HYDROGEN ORDERED PHASES OF ICE; MICROSCOPIC OBSERVATION AND IN-SITU RAMAN STUDIES ON SOME SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE GAS HYDRATES UNDER HIGH PRESSURE; CLATHRATE HYDRATE FORMATION AND GROWTH: EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATIONS VERSUS PREDICTED BEHAVIOUR; EFFECT OF SNOW ACCRETION TO THE GPS ANTENNA ON POSITIONING PERFORMANCE; GAS HYDRATES IN THE SYSTEM H2-CH4 - H2O AT PRESSURES OF 4.5 TO 220 ??? AND CONCENTRATIONS OF 0 TO 70 MOL % ?2; CHEMISTRY INDUCED BY IMPLANTATION OF REACTIVE IONS IN WATER ICE; STRUCTURE H HYDRATE KINETICS STUDIED BY NMR SPECTROSCOPY; DIELECTRIC RELAXATION OF ICE SAMPLES GROWN FROM VAPOR-PHASE OR LIQUID-PHASE WATER; ESR OBSERVATION OF SELF-PRESERVATION EFFECT OF METHANE HYDRATE; INVESTIGATION OF THE STRUCTURAL DISORDER IN ICE Ih USING NEUTRON DIFFRACTION AND REVERSE MONTE CARLO MODELLING; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION OF STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICAL PROPERTIES OF ORIENTATIONAL DEFECTS IN ICE; EFFECTS OF ADDITIVES ON FORMATION RATES OF CO2 HYDRATE FILMS; RIPPLE FORMATION MECHANISM ON ICICLES UNDER A THIN SHEAR FLOW; MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS OF WATER FREEZING: BRINE REJECTION AND HOMOGENEOUS NUCLEATION; IMPLICATIONS FOR AND FINDINGS FROM DEEP ICE CORE DRILLINGS - AN EXAMPLE: THE ULTIMATE TENSILE STRENGTH OF ICE AT HIGH STRAIN RATES; ISOTHERMAL AMORPHOUS-AMORPHOUS-AMORPHOUS TRANSITIONS IN WATER; MECHANICAL STRENGTH AND FLOW PROPERTIES OF ICE-SILICATE MIXTURE DEPENDING ON THE SILICATE CONTENTS AND THE SILICATE PARTICLE SIZES; ADSORPTION OF ANTIFREEZE PROTEIN AND A COMMERCIAL LOW DOSAGE HYDRATE INHIBITIOR ON HYDROPHILIC AND HYDROPHOBIC SURFACES; DIFFUSION, INCORPORATION, AND SEGREGATION OF ANTIFREEZE GLYCOPROTEINS AT THE ICE/SOLUTION INTERFACE; Subject Index

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The Editor Werner F. Kuhs is a Professor of Crystallography at the University of G÷ttingen, Germany and has a career spanning 25 years of research in the field of water ices and gas hydrates using diffraction methods, neutron and Raman spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, atomic force and molecular dynamics simulations. He was the Chair of the 11th International Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Ice.

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