Abstract
The relative stability of water clusters of two different morphologies has been examined with the size N ranging from 54 to 864; the first one is a circular fragment of bilayer ice (a disk-like cluster), and the second one is a spherical fragment of normal cubic ice (a droplet-like cluster). We found a crossover at Nc ≃ 1000, below which the disk-like cluster becomes more energetically favorable. The crossover arises because the potential energy (per molecule) for the droplet-like cluster decreases linearly with N-1/3 whereas it decreases by N-1/2 for the disk-like cluster. © 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 378-384 |
| Journal | Chemical Physics Letters |
| Volume | 304 |
| Issue number | 5-6 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 7 May 1999 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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