How water's properties are encoded in its molecular structure and energies

E Brini, CJ Fennell, M Fernandez-Serra… - Chemical …, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
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 …

A review on freeze-thaw action and weathering of rocks

M Deprez, T De Kock, G De Schutter, V Cnudde - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Freeze-thaw weathering is an important surface process and the complex underlying
processes can be understood as an interplay between rock properties and its dynamic …

Second critical point in two realistic models of water

PG Debenedetti, F Sciortino, GH Zerze - Science, 2020‏ - science.org
The hypothesis that water has a second critical point at deeply supercooled conditions was
formulated to provide a thermodynamically consistent interpretation of numerous …

Medium-density amorphous ice

A Rosu-Finsen, MB Davies, A Amon, H Wu, A Sella… - Science, 2023‏ - science.org
Amorphous ices govern a range of cosmological processes and are potentially key materials
for explaining the anomalies of liquid water. A substantial density gap between low-density …

Maxima in the thermodynamic response and correlation functions of deeply supercooled water

KH Kim, A Späh, H Pathak, F Perakis, D Mariedahl… - Science, 2017‏ - science.org
Femtosecond x-ray laser pulses were used to probe micrometer-sized water droplets that
were cooled down to 227 kelvin in vacuum. Isothermal compressibility and correlation length …

Signatures of a liquid–liquid transition in an ab initio deep neural network model for water

TE Gartner III, L Zhang, PM Piaggi, R Car… - Proceedings of the …, 2020‏ - pnas.org
The possible existence of a metastable liquid–liquid transition (LLT) and a corresponding
liquid–liquid critical point (LLCP) in supercooled liquid water remains a topic of much …

The structural origin of anomalous properties of liquid water

A Nilsson, LGM Pettersson - Nature communications, 2015‏ - nature.com
Water is unique in its number of unusual, often called anomalous, properties. When hot it is
a normal simple liquid; however, close to ambient temperatures properties, such as the …

Liquid-liquid transition in water from first principles

TE Gartner III, PM Piaggi, R Car, AZ Panagiotopoulos… - Physical review …, 2022‏ - APS
A long-standing question in water research is the possibility that supercooled liquid water
can undergo a liquid-liquid phase transition (LLT) into high-and low-density liquids. We …

Topological nature of the liquid–liquid phase transition in tetrahedral liquids

A Neophytou, D Chakrabarti, F Sciortino - Nature Physics, 2022‏ - nature.com
The first-order phase transition between two tetrahedral networks of different density—
introduced as a hypothesis to account for the anomalous behaviour of certain …

Water: A tale of two liquids

P Gallo, K Amann-Winkel, CA Angell… - Chemical …, 2016‏ - ACS Publications
Water is the most abundant liquid on earth and also the substance with the largest number
of anomalies in its properties. It is a prerequisite for life and as such a most important subject …