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ArticleNature communications2018

Thermodynamic and structural anomalies of water nanodroplets.

Shahrazad M A Malek, Peter H Poole, Ivan Saika-Voivod

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Article in Nature communications, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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  2. Advances in the study of supercooled water.The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2021
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  3. How coronavirus survives for hours in aerosols.Physics of fluids (Woodbury, N.Y. : 1994) · 2021
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  4. Confining a Protein-Containing Water Nanodroplet inside Silica Nanochannels.International journal of molecular sciences · 2019
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Shahrazad M A MalekDepartment of Physics and Physical Oceanography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, A1B 3X7, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4071-3107
Peter H PooleDepartment of Physics, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, B2G 2W5, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5985-0585
Ivan Saika-VoivodDepartment of Physics and Physical Oceanography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, A1B 3X7, Canada. saika@mun.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3945-7003

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Abstract

Liquid water nanodroplets are important in earth's climate, and are valuable for studying supercooled water because they resist crystallisation well below the bulk freezing temperature. Bulk liquid water has well-known thermodynamic anomalies, such as a density maximum, and when supercooled is hypothesised to exhibit a liquid-liquid phase transition (LLPT) at elevated pressure. However, it is not known how these bulk anomalies might manifest themselves in nanodroplets. Here we show, using simulations of the TIP4P/2005 water model, that bulk anomalies occur in nanodroplets as small as 360 molecules. We also show that the Laplace pressure inside small droplets reaches 220 MPa at 180 K, conditions close to the LLPT of TIP4P/2005. While the density and pressure inside nanodroplets coincide with bulk values at moderate supercooling, we show that deviations emerge at lower temperature, as well as significant radial density gradients, which arise from and signal the approach to the LLPT.

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