Vitrification and glass transition of water : Insights from spin probe ESR

Three long-standing problems related to the physics of water, viz., the possibility of vitrifying bulk water by rapid quenching, its glass transition, and the supposed impossibility of obtaining supercooled water between 150 and 233 K, the so-called "no man's land" of its phase diagra...

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Published in:Physical review letters 2005-12, Vol.95 (23), p.235702.1-235702.4, Article 235702
Main Authors: BHAT, Shrivalli N, SHARMA, Ajay, BHAT, S. V
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Condensed matter: structure, mechanical and thermal properties
Equations of state, phase equilibria, and phase transitions
Exact sciences and technology
Glass transitions
Physics
Specific phase transitions
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Summary:Three long-standing problems related to the physics of water, viz., the possibility of vitrifying bulk water by rapid quenching, its glass transition, and the supposed impossibility of obtaining supercooled water between 150 and 233 K, the so-called "no man's land" of its phase diagram, are studied using the highly sensitive technique of spin probe ESR. Our results suggest that water can indeed be vitrified by rapid quenching; it undergoes a glass transition at approximately 135 K, and the relaxation behavior studied using this method between 165 K and 233 K closely follows the predictions of the Adam-Gibbs model.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.235702