Ice Regelation: Hydrogen-bond extraordinary recoverability and water quasisolid-phase-boundary dispersivity

• Main Authors: Zhang, Xi, Huang, Yongli, Sun, Peng, Liu, Xinjuan, Ma, Zengsheng, Zhou, Yichun, Zhou, Ji, Zheng, Weitao, Sun, Chang Qing
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/103525; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/38766
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Regelation, i.e., ice melts under compression and freezes again when the pressure is relieved, remains puzzling since its discovery in 1850’s by Faraday. Here we show that hydrogen bond (O:H-O) cooperativity and its extraordinary recoverability resolve this anomaly. The H-O bond and the O:H nonbond...