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BP: Fachverband Biologische Physik
BP 27: Posters: Complex Fluids and Soft Matter
BP 27.6: Poster
Tuesday, March 17, 2015, 14:00–16:00, Poster A
Microscopic structure of supercooled water studied by x-ray Compton scattering and x-ray Raman scattering — •Juri Nyrow1, Felix Lehmkühler2, Mikko Hakala3, Thomas Büning1, Ingo Steinke2, Christoph J. Sahle4, Karin Julius1, Agnieszka Poulain4, Ali Al-Zein4, Thomas Buslaps4, Metin Tolan1 und Christian Sternemann1 — 1Fakultät Physik/DELTA, TU Dortmund, GE-44221 Dortmund — 2Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, GE-22607 Hamburg — 3Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, FI-00014 Helsinki — 4ESRF, FR-38043 Grenoble Cedex 9
The microscopic structure of water at ambient and in supercooled conditions is controversially discussed, e.g. with respect to a mixture of low and high density water phases [1]. Recently, x-ray absorption and diffraction studies reported an increasing contribution of tetrahedrally coordinated low density water on cost of a highly disturbed hydrogen bonding network at supercooled conditions [2,3]. We investigated changes of the molecular structure in supercooled water for temperatures down to 255 K by x-ray Compton scattering and x-ray Raman scattering. The results indicate a strengthening of the tetrahedral hydrogen bond network, accompanied by a shortening of the intramolecular OH bond length upon supercooling. These findings will be discussed using structural models with different local bonding configurations [4].
[1] C. Huang et al. PNAS 106, 15214 (2009).
[2] J. A. Sellberg et al. J. Chem. Phys. 141, 034507 (2014).
[3] J. A. Sellberg et al. Nature 510 (7505), 381-384 (2014).
[4] M. Hakala et al. Phys. Rev. B 73, 035432 (2006).