TY - JOUR
T1 - The glass transition of water, based on hyperquenching experiments
AU - Velikov, V.
AU - Borick, S.
AU - Angell, Charles
PY - 2001/12/14
Y1 - 2001/12/14
N2 - The glass transition temperature (Tg) in water is still uncertain, with conflicting values reported in the literature. As with other hyperquenched glasses, water exhibits a large relaxation exotherm on reheating at the normal rate of 10 kelvin (K) per minute. This release of heat indicates the transformation of a high enthalpy state to a lower one found in slow-cooled glasses. When the exotherm temperature is scaled by Tg, the good glass-formers show a common pattern. However, for hyperquenched water, when this analysis is performed using the commonly accepted Tg = 136 K, its behavior appears completely different, but this should not be the case because enthalpy relaxation is fundamental to the calorimetric glass transition. With Tg = 165 ± 5 K, normal behavior is restored in comparison with other hyperquenched glasses and with the binary solution behavior of network-former systems (H2O, ZnCl2, or BeF2 plus asecond component). This revised value has relevance to the understanding of waterbiomolecule interactions.
AB - The glass transition temperature (Tg) in water is still uncertain, with conflicting values reported in the literature. As with other hyperquenched glasses, water exhibits a large relaxation exotherm on reheating at the normal rate of 10 kelvin (K) per minute. This release of heat indicates the transformation of a high enthalpy state to a lower one found in slow-cooled glasses. When the exotherm temperature is scaled by Tg, the good glass-formers show a common pattern. However, for hyperquenched water, when this analysis is performed using the commonly accepted Tg = 136 K, its behavior appears completely different, but this should not be the case because enthalpy relaxation is fundamental to the calorimetric glass transition. With Tg = 165 ± 5 K, normal behavior is restored in comparison with other hyperquenched glasses and with the binary solution behavior of network-former systems (H2O, ZnCl2, or BeF2 plus asecond component). This revised value has relevance to the understanding of waterbiomolecule interactions.
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U2 - 10.1126/science.1061757
DO - 10.1126/science.1061757
M3 - Article
C2 - 11743196
AN - SCOPUS:0035861453
SN - 0036-8075
VL - 294
SP - 2335
EP - 2338
JO - Science
JF - Science
IS - 5550
ER -