Shi, Jihong;
Fulford, Maxwell;
Salvalaglio, Matteo;
Molteni, Carla;
(2025)
Unveiling the face-dependent ice growth kinetics: Insights from molecular dynamics on the basal and prism surfaces.
The Journal of Chemical Physics
, 162
(5)
, Article 054714. 10.1063/5.0240795.
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Abstract
Ice nucleation and growth are critical in many fields, including atmospheric science, cryobiology, and aviation. However, understanding the detailed mechanisms of ice crystal growth remains challenging. In this work, crystallization at the ice/quasi-liquid layer (QLL) interface of the basal and primary prism (prism1) surfaces of hexagonal ice (Ih) was investigated using molecular dynamics simulations across a wide range of temperatures for the TIP4P/Ice model, with comparisons to the mW coarse-grained model. Together with elucidating the temperature-dependent mechanisms of crystallization, face-specific growth rates were systematically estimated. While the prism surface generally exhibits faster growth rates than the basal surface, a temperature-dependent crossover in growth rates between the basal and prism surfaces is observed in TIP4P/Ice simulations, which correlates with crossovers in QLL thickness and properties and with the well-known column to platelets transition in ice-crystal habits at low vapor pressure. This observation helps decode the complex dependence between crystal morphology and temperature in ice crystals.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Unveiling the face-dependent ice growth kinetics: Insights from molecular dynamics on the basal and prism surfaces |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1063/5.0240795 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0240795 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2025 Author(s). All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0240795 |
| Keywords: | Water model, Molecular dynamics, Coarse-grain model, Crystallization, Kinetics and dynamics, Supercooling, Atmospheric science, Polymorphism, Prisms, Surface dynamics |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Chemical Engineering |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10204971 |
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