Micrometre-sized colloidal particles can be viewed as large atoms with tailorable size,
shape and interactions. These building blocks can assemble into extremely rich structures …

Conspectus Understanding phase behavior of highly confined water, ice, amorphous ice,
and clathrate hydrates (or gas hydrates), not only enriches our view of phase transitions and …

Understanding the phase behaviour of nanoconfined water films is of fundamental
importance in broad fields of science and engineering. However, the phase behaviour of the …

Despite relevance to disparate areas such as cloud microphysics and tribology, major gaps
in the understanding of the structures and phase transitions of low-dimensional water ice …

Water exhibits rich phase behaviors in nanoscale confinement. Since the simulation
evidence of the formation of single-walled ice nanotubes (INTs) in single-walled carbon …

The adsorption of guest and kinetic inhibitor molecules on the surface of methane hydrate is
investigated by using molecular dynamics simulations. We calculate the free energy profile …

When polypeptide chains fold into a protein, hydrophobic groups are compacted in the
center with exclusion of water. We report the crystal structure of an alanine-rich antifreeze …

Evaluation of the tensile/compression limit of a solid under conditions of tension or
compression is often performed to provide mechanical properties that are critical for …

A distinctive physical property of bulk water is its rich solid-state phase behavior, which
includes 15 crystalline (ice I–ice XIV) and at least 3 glassy forms of water, namely, low …

Ice and ice clathrate are not only omnipresent across polar regions of Earth or under
terrestrial oceans but also ubiquitous in the solar system such as on comets, asteroids, or icy …