Water, Paper, Glass

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Heating-induced glass-glass and glass-liquid transformations in computer simulations of water.

Water exists in at least two families of glassy states, broadly categorized as the low-density (LDA) and high-density amorphous ice (HDA). Remarkably, LDA and HDA can be reversibly interconverted via appropriate thermodynamic paths, such as isothermal compression and isobaric heating, exhibiting first-order-like phase transitions. We perform out-of-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations of ...

Acoustics of water saturated packed glass spheres

2014 We have measured the velocity and attenuation of sound in a pack of water saturated glass spheres. The frequency range spreads from 200 kHz to 10 MHz and the diameter of the spheres is varied from 50 03BCm to 500 03BCm. Our experimental data clearly confirm the validity of Biot’s theory of the propagation of sound in porous medium. J. Physique LETTRES 42 (1981) L-477-L-480 Classification P...

Water and Sanitation Program: Technical PaPer

Glass transition dynamics in water and other tetrahedral liquids: ‘order–disorder’ transitions versus ‘normal’ glass transitions

We review some aspects of the confusion concerning the glass transition in water, and then show that it must be of a quite different character from that in other molecular liquids, and in fact is the kinetically controlled part of a classical order–disorder transition. (This is the conclusion reached in a review of the low temperature phenomenology of amorphous water currently being published i...