Electrofreezing

Electrofreezing is the tendency of a material to solidify upon being exposed to an external electric field. Electrofreezing was initially introduced by Dufour in 1892.^[1] Examples are the electrofreezing of liquid ammonia^[2] supposed to be naturally occurring during electrical storms in Jupiter-like planets,^[3] and ice χ supposedly being a form of high pressure ice.^[4]

Depending on the material, freezing occur only at certain field intensities, above which electric fields are strong enough to induce chemical reactions.^[5]

References

^ Dufour, L. (1862). "Ueber das gefrieren des wassers und über die bildung des hagels" (PDF). Annalen der Physik. 190 (12): 530–554. doi:10.1002/andp.18621901203.
^ ,Cassone, Giuseppe; Sponer, Jiri; Sponer, Judit; Saija, Franz (2022). "Electrofreezing of liquid ammonia". The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 13 (42): 9889–9894. doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c02576. PMC 9619927. PMID 36255376.
^ Becker, Heidi N.; Alexander, James W.; Atreya, Sushil K.; Bolton, Scott J.; Brennan, Martin J.; Brown, Shannon T.; Guillaume, Alexandre; Guillot, Tristan; Ingersoll, Andrew P.; Levin, Steven M.; Lunine, Jonathan I.; Aglyamov, Yury S.; Steffes, Paul G. (August 2020). "Small lightning flashes from shallow electrical storms on Jupiter". Nature. 584 (7819): 55–58. Bibcode:2020Natur.584...55B. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2532-1. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 32760043. S2CID 220980694.
^ Zhu, Weiduo; Huang, Yingying; Zhu, Chongqin; Wu, Hong-Hui; Wang, Lu; Bai, Jaeil; Yang, Jinlong; Francisco, Joseph S.; Zhao, Jijun; Yuan, Lan-Feng; Zeng, Xiao Cheng (2019-04-26). "Room temperature electrofreezing of water yields a missing dense ice phase in the phase diagram". Nature Communications. 10 (1): 1925. Bibcode:2019NatCo..10.1925Z. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-09950-z. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 6486617. PMID 31028288.
^ Saitta, A. Marco; Saija, Franz; Giaquinta, Paolo V. (2012-05-15). "Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Study of Dissociation of Water under an Electric Field". Physical Review Letters. 108 (20): 207801. arXiv:1204.1120. Bibcode:2012PhRvL.108t7801S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.207801. PMID 23003187. S2CID 3138408.

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[1] Dufour, L. (1862). "Ueber das gefrieren des wassers und über die bildung des hagels" (PDF). Annalen der Physik. 190 (12): 530–554. doi:10.1002/andp.18621901203.

[2] ,Cassone, Giuseppe; Sponer, Jiri; Sponer, Judit; Saija, Franz (2022). "Electrofreezing of liquid ammonia". The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 13 (42): 9889–9894. doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c02576. PMC 9619927. PMID 36255376.

[3] Becker, Heidi N.; Alexander, James W.; Atreya, Sushil K.; Bolton, Scott J.; Brennan, Martin J.; Brown, Shannon T.; Guillaume, Alexandre; Guillot, Tristan; Ingersoll, Andrew P.; Levin, Steven M.; Lunine, Jonathan I.; Aglyamov, Yury S.; Steffes, Paul G. (August 2020). "Small lightning flashes from shallow electrical storms on Jupiter". Nature. 584 (7819): 55–58. Bibcode:2020Natur.584...55B. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2532-1. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 32760043. S2CID 220980694.

[4] Zhu, Weiduo; Huang, Yingying; Zhu, Chongqin; Wu, Hong-Hui; Wang, Lu; Bai, Jaeil; Yang, Jinlong; Francisco, Joseph S.; Zhao, Jijun; Yuan, Lan-Feng; Zeng, Xiao Cheng (2019-04-26). "Room temperature electrofreezing of water yields a missing dense ice phase in the phase diagram". Nature Communications. 10 (1): 1925. Bibcode:2019NatCo..10.1925Z. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-09950-z. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 6486617. PMID 31028288.

[5] Saitta, A. Marco; Saija, Franz; Giaquinta, Paolo V. (2012-05-15). "Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Study of Dissociation of Water under an Electric Field". Physical Review Letters. 108 (20): 207801. arXiv:1204.1120. Bibcode:2012PhRvL.108t7801S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.207801. PMID 23003187. S2CID 3138408.

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