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Pore-collapse in amorphous solid water: A dynamics study

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2026
American Institute of Physics Melville, NY

The journal of chemical physics 164(1), 014501 () [10.1063/5.0305153]
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Abstract: Vapor-deposited amorphous ice, so-called amorphous solid water, exhibits complex structural and morphological transformations upon heating. A network of micropores, present at the deposition temperature (80 K), collapses at 100–145 K, and a glass transition takes place simultaneously above 120 K. Here, we separate the two processes by allowing the micropores to collapse upon heating, which is monitored by small-angle x-ray scattering experiments. The combined micropore collapse and glass transition dynamics are studied using x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy. After cooling back down and heating a second time, we see remaining pores collapsing only near $T$$_g$⁠. Our analysis reveals both diffusive and ballistic processes attributed to pore collapse dynamics. Fast processes (∼100 Å$^2$/s) occur only when both micropore collapse and glass transition are simultaneously at play. In other words, both processes impact on each other and lead to a speed-up. The glass transition dynamics mainly features a slow diffusive process with a diffusion coefficient of around 1 Å$^2$/s and lower. This value is in nice agreement with other work on thin and on bulk samples.

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Note: Funded by PIER Seed Project (Grant No. PIF-2024-05), the city of Hamburg in the research project “Control of the special properties of water in nanopores” (Grant No. LFF-FV68).

Contributing Institute(s):
  1. Spectroscopy of molecular processes (FS-SMP)
  2. European XFEL Projekt Team (Eur.XFEL)
  3. DOOR-User (DOOR ; HAS-User)
Research Program(s):
  1. 633 - Life Sciences – Building Blocks of Life: Structure and Function (POF4-633) (POF4-633)
  2. 6G3 - PETRA III (DESY) (POF4-6G3) (POF4-6G3)
  3. FS-Proposal: I-20211355 EC (I-20211355-EC) (I-20211355-EC)
  4. FS-Proposal: T-20220749 EC (T-20220749-EC) (T-20220749-EC)
  5. SWEDEN-DESY - SWEDEN-DESY Collaboration (2020_Join2-SWEDEN-DESY) (2020_Join2-SWEDEN-DESY)
Experiment(s):
  1. PETRA Beamline P10 (PETRA III)

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