TY - JOUR
T1 - A liquid-liquid transition in supercooled aqueous solution related to the HDA-LDA transition
AU - Woutersen, Sander
AU - Ensing, Bernd
AU - Hilbers, Michiel
AU - Zhao, Zuofeng
AU - Angell, Charles
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 The Authors.
PY - 2018/3/9
Y1 - 2018/3/9
N2 - Simulations and theory suggest that the thermodynamic anomalies of water may be related to a phase transition between two supercooled liquid states, but so far this phase transition has not been observed experimentally because of preemptive ice crystallization. We used calorimetry, infrared spectroscopy, and molecular dynamics simulations to investigate a water-rich hydrazinium trifluoroacetate solution in which the local hydrogen bond structure surrounding a water molecule resembles that in neat water at elevated pressure, but which does not crystallize upon cooling. Instead, this solution underwent a sharp, reversible phase transition between two homogeneous liquid states. The hydrogen-bond structures of these two states are similar to those established for high- and low-density amorphous (HDA and LDA) water. Such structural similarity supports theories that predict a similar sharp transition in pure water under pressure if ice crystallization could be suppressed.
AB - Simulations and theory suggest that the thermodynamic anomalies of water may be related to a phase transition between two supercooled liquid states, but so far this phase transition has not been observed experimentally because of preemptive ice crystallization. We used calorimetry, infrared spectroscopy, and molecular dynamics simulations to investigate a water-rich hydrazinium trifluoroacetate solution in which the local hydrogen bond structure surrounding a water molecule resembles that in neat water at elevated pressure, but which does not crystallize upon cooling. Instead, this solution underwent a sharp, reversible phase transition between two homogeneous liquid states. The hydrogen-bond structures of these two states are similar to those established for high- and low-density amorphous (HDA and LDA) water. Such structural similarity supports theories that predict a similar sharp transition in pure water under pressure if ice crystallization could be suppressed.
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U2 - 10.1126/science.aao7049
DO - 10.1126/science.aao7049
M3 - Article
C2 - 29590040
AN - SCOPUS:85043277104
SN - 0036-8075
VL - 359
SP - 1127
EP - 1131
JO - Science
JF - Science
IS - 6380
ER -