FAST THERMAL DESORPTION SPECTROSCOPY AND MICROCALORIMETRY: NEW TOOLS TO UNCOVER MYSTERIES OF ICE

摘要

Due to the crucial role of aqueous chemistry in a variety of environmental, biological, and industrial processes, experimental studies of ice remain an important field of modern physical chemistry. Examples of applied areas, which require knowledge of the physics and chemistry of various solid forms of water, include: atmospheric chemistry and climate change, soil chemistry, planetary and interstellar chemistry, cryopreservation, and research into alternative energy sources. Furthermore, ice and water are uniquely accessible to computational modelling, due to the availability of extensive information on the intermolecular interactions in water-containing systems. Therefore, ice is often considered to be a model system for studies of fundamental properties of condensed molecular phases.