Gas hydrates in confined space of nanoporous materials: new frontier in gas storage technology

AK Both, Y Gao, XC Zeng, CL Cheung - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Gas hydrates (clathrate hydrates, clathrates, or hydrates) are crystalline inclusion
compounds composed of water and gas molecules. Methane hydrates, the most well-known …

Nanoporous ices: an emerging class in the water/ice family

Y Liu, Y Pu, XC Zeng - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The history of scientific research on diverse ice structures dates back to more than a century.
To date, 20 three-dimensional crystalline ice phases (ice I-ice XX) have been identified in …

Application of nanofluids in rapid methane hydrate formation: a review

Y Qin, L Shang, L Zhou, J Zhu, S Yuan, C Zang… - Energy & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The use of hydrate-based technologies for gas storage and transportation, carbon capture
and sequestration, desalination, and cold energy utilization is gaining popularity …

Computational prediction of novel ice phases: A perspective

C Zhu, Y Gao, W Zhu, Y Liu, JS Francisco… - The journal of physical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Although computational prediction of new ice phases is a niche field in water science, the
scientific subject itself is representative of two important areas in physical chemistry, namely …

Dielectric profile and electromelting of a monolayer of water confined in graphene slit pore

J Majumdar, M Moid, C Dasgupta… - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
A monolayer of water confined between two parallel graphene sheets exists in many
different phases and exhibits fascinating dielectric properties that have been studied in …

Tunable Surface Wettability via Terahertz Electrowave Controlled Vicinal Subnanoscale Water Layer

Z Zhu, J Zhu, C Chang, C Qi, Z Zhu, H Zhao… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Achieving timely, reversible, and long-range remote tunability over surface wettability is
highly demanded across diverse fields, including nanofluidic systems, drug delivery, and …

Two-dimensional ice-like water adlayers on a mica surface with and without a graphene coating under ambient conditions

X Li, YG Fang, Q Bai, J Jiang, XC Zeng, JS Francisco… - Nanoscale, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Water tends to wet all hydrophilic surfaces under ambient conditions, and the first water
adlayers on solids are important for a broad range of physicochemical phenomena and …

Rich Phase Behaviors of One-Dimensional Interfacial Water via Tuning Interfacial Water–Solid Interaction

Y Liu, Y Pu, J Jiang, XC Zeng - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2025 - ACS Publications
Despite numerous studies of water structures at the two-dimensional water–solid interfaces,
much less is known about the phase behaviors of water at the one-dimensional (1D) liquid …

A helical monolayer ice

Y Xu, X Xuan, Z Zhang, W Guo - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Understanding water wetting layers on solid surfaces is essential for many natural and
industrial processes. Here we find a helical ice monolayer with every six water molecules …