Lee Hsun Lecture Series 

Topic: Cold water and ice: Insights from computer simulations 

Speaker: Dr. AngelosMichaelides 

　　     Thomas Young Centre, UCL, London, UK  

Abstract: 

Recent work from our research group in which we are trying to understand the intimate molecular level details of water freezing will be discussed. A particular emphasis will be placed on the role the surfaces of foreign materials play in accelerating the nucleation process [1-4] and on the dynamical nature of the nucleation event.    

1. M. Fitzner, G. C. Sosso, S. J. Cox and A. Michaelides, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 137, 13658 (2015)

2. G. Sosso et al., J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 7, 2350 (2015)  

3. A. Kiselev et al, Science 355, 367 (2017) 

4. M. Fitzner et al., Nature Comm. 8, 2257 (2017)