How are water's material properties encoded within the structure of the water molecule? This
is pertinent to understanding Earth's living systems, its materials, its geochemistry and …

Hydrate research has expanded substantially over the past decade, resulting in more than
4,000 hydrate-related publications. Collating this vast amount of information into one source …

Conspectus Continuing efforts by many research groups have led to the discovery of∼ 240
species in the interstellar medium (ISM). Observatory-and laboratory-based astrochemical …

Gas hydrates are ice-like solids, in which guest molecules or atoms are trapped inside
cages formed within a crystalline host framework (clathrate) of hydrogen-bonded water …

A solid water phase commonly known as “cubic ice” or “ice Ic” is frequently encountered in
various transitions between the solid, liquid, and gaseous phases of the water substance. It …

Anomalous preservation is the well-established but little-understood phenomenon of a long-
term stability of gas hydrates outside their thermodynamic field of stability. It occurs after …

Gas hydrates can exhibit an anomalously slow decomposition outside their thermodynamic
stability field; the phenomenon is called “self-preservation” and is mostly studied at ambient …

Ice recrystallization is of great importance to both fundamental research and practical
applications, however understanding and controlling ice recrystallization processes remains …

Clathrate hydrates (CHs) are inclusion compounds in which “tetrahedrally” bonded H2O
forms a crystalline host lattice composed of a periodic array of cages. The structure is …

The major points in this paper concern:(a) physical and chemical properties and (b)
applications of those properties. Three questions are addressed: What are hydrates? What …