ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Data Journal

Investigation of the single proton dynamics in light water and ice-Ih applying an external electrostatic field

Abstract: Due to the partially covalent nature of water?s hydrogen bonding, electrons are not held by individual molecules but are easily distributed amongst water clusters. This gives rise to coherent regions capable of interacting with local electric and magnetic fields, as well as with electromagnetic radiation. Water, being dipolar, can be partly aligned by an electric field and this can be easily shown by the movement of a stream of water close to an electrostatic source. high field strengths (5E9 V/m) are required to reorient water in ice such that freezing is inhibited, with lower fields (1E5 V/m) encouraging ice formation in supercooled water by weakening the hydrogen bonding.This experiment is a first attempt to measure the microscopic dynamical effects induced at the level of the single atoms when an external physical perturbation modify the structural and chemico-physical environment.

Principal Investigator: Dr Antonino Pietropaolo
Experimenter: Professor Fabio Bruni
Experimenter: Dr Daniele Colognesi
Local Contact: Dr Matthew Krzystyniak
Experimenter: Dr Alessandra Filabozzi

DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1520357

ISIS Experiment Number: RB1520357

Publisher: STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

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