ArticleNature communications2015
Mechanical instability of monocrystalline and polycrystalline methane hydrates.
Article in Nature communications, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed.
- Stress-Induced Melting Controlled Failure Mechanisms of Methane Hydrate.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- A mechanistic study of CONature communications · 2025Article
- Molecular insights into the interactions between PEG carriers and drug molecules from Celastrus hindsii: a multi-scale simulation study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Atomistic-geometric simulations to investigate the mechanical stability of monocrystalline sI methane hydrates under pressure.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Unraveling Adhesion Strength between Gas Hydrate and Solid Surfaces.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2021Article
- Crustal fingering facilitates free-gas methane migration through the hydrate stability zone.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Unraveling nucleation pathway in methane clathrate formation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Contactless probing of polycrystalline methane hydrate at pore scale suggests weaker tensile properties than thought.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Molecular Simulation Study on the Microscopic Structure and Mechanical Property of Defect-Containing sI Methane Hydrate.International journal of molecular sciences · 2019Article
- Understanding the Pathway of Gas Hydrate Formation with Porous Materials for Enhanced Gas Separation.Research (Washington, D.C.) · 2019Article
- Influence of temperature on methane hydrate formation.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Elasticity and Stability of Clathrate Hydrate: Role of Guest Molecule Motions.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Inhibition of methane and natural gas hydrate formation by altering the structure of water with amino acids.Scientific reports · 2016Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Despite observations of massive methane release and geohazards associated with gas hydrate instability in nature, as well as ductile flow accompanying hydrate dissociation in artificial polycrystalline methane hydrates in the laboratory, the destabilising mechanisms of gas hydrates under deformation and their grain-boundary structures have not yet been elucidated at the molecular level. Here we report direct molecular dynamics simulations of the material instability of monocrystalline and polycrystalline methane hydrates under mechanical loading. The results show dislocation-free brittle failure in monocrystalline hydrates and an unexpected crossover from strengthening to weakening in polycrystals. Upon uniaxial depressurisation, strain-induced hydrate dissociation accompanied by grain-boundary decohesion and sliding destabilises the polycrystals. In contrast, upon compression, appreciable solid-state structural transformation dominates the response. These findings provide molecular insight not only into the metastable structures of grain boundaries, but also into unusual ductile flow with hydrate dissociation as observed during macroscopic compression experiments.
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.