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Nature Materials 8, 372 - 373 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nmat2428
Surface water: Pentagonal ice in chains
Peter J. Feibelman1
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Peter J. Feibelman is at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185-1415, USA.
e-mail: pjfeibe@sandia.gov
Abstract
One-dimensional islands that grow during ice nucleation at low temperatures on a copper(110) surface are identified as chains of water-molecule pentagons. This unexpected molecular arrangement optimizes oxygen-atom proximity to preferred bonding sites on the metal, while minimizing strain in the hydrogen-bond network.
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