Physics:Electrofreezing

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Electrofreezing is the tendency of a material to solidify upon being exposed to an external electric field. Electrofreezing was initially introduced by Dufour in 1892.[1] Examples are the electrofreezing of liquid ammonia[2] supposed to be naturally occurring during electrical storms in Jupiter-like planets,[3] and ice χ supposedly being a form of high pressure ice.[4]

Depending on the material, freezing occur only at certain field intensities, above which electric fields are strong enough to induce chemical reactions.[5]

References

  1. Dufour, L. (1862). "Ueber das gefrieren des wassers und über die bildung des hagels". Annalen der Physik 190 (12): 530–554. doi:10.1002/andp.18621901203. https://ia800708.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/22/items/crossref-pre-1909-scholarly-works/10.1002%252Fandp.18601850208.zip&file=10.1002%252Fandp.18621901203.pdf. 
  2. ,Cassone, Giuseppe; Sponer, Jiri; Sponer, Judit; Saija, Franz (2022). "Electrofreezing of liquid ammonia". The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 13 (42): 9889–9894. doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c02576. PMID 36255376. 
  3. Becker, Heidi N.; Alexander, James W.; Atreya, Sushil K.; Bolton, Scott J.; Brennan, Martin J.; Brown, Shannon T.; Guillaume, Alexandre; Guillot, Tristan et al. (August 2020). "Small lightning flashes from shallow electrical storms on Jupiter" (in en). Nature 584 (7819): 55–58. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2532-1. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 32760043. Bibcode2020Natur.584...55B. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2532-1. 
  4. Zhu, Weiduo; Huang, Yingying; Zhu, Chongqin; Wu, Hong-Hui; Wang, Lu; Bai, Jaeil; Yang, Jinlong; Francisco, Joseph S. et al. (2019-04-26). "Room temperature electrofreezing of water yields a missing dense ice phase in the phase diagram" (in en). Nature Communications 10 (1): 1925. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-09950-z. ISSN 2041-1723. PMID 31028288. Bibcode2019NatCo..10.1925Z. 
  5. Saitta, A. Marco; Saija, Franz; Giaquinta, Paolo V. (2012-05-15). "Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Study of Dissociation of Water under an Electric Field". Physical Review Letters 108 (20). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.207801. PMID 23003187. Bibcode2012PhRvL.108t7801S. https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.207801.