Jan 7 – 12, 2018
ETH Zürich, centre
Europe/Zurich timezone

Modeling Elementary Heterogeneous Atmospheric and Interstellar (Photo)chemical Processes on Ice and their Dynamics using Amorphous Solid Water

Jan 11, 2018, 11:30 AM
20m
NO Building, Room C 60 (ETH Zürich, centre)

NO Building, Room C 60

ETH Zürich, centre

Sonneggstrasse 5 8092 Zürich
Talk Chemistry

Speaker

Prof. Patrick Ayotte (Université de Sherbrooke)

Description

A thermodynamically reversible path was suggested to exist linking the low density forms of amorphous ice (LDA) and deeply supercooled liquid water (LDL), through the so-called no man’s land and finally onto normal liquid water.(1) Furthermore, at temperatures below its calorimetric glass transition temperature (Tg ~ 136K), transport kinetics are exceedingly slow in amorphous solid water (ASW). Therefore, it might provide a convenient model system to study elementary heterogeneous atmospheric and interstellar chemistry processes that occur on the quasi-liquid layer (QLL) that forms at the air-ice interface in the atmosphere at T

Significance statement

Modeling of ice surface Chemistry using advanced spectroscopic tools and ASW allows slow interfacial dynamic processes to be studied with surface science approaches.

Primary author

Prof. Patrick Ayotte (Université de Sherbrooke)

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