Water subjected to high confinement pressures undergoes phase changes into high-density ice polymorphs
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Water subjected to high confinement pressures undergoes phase changes into high-density ice polymorphs, as supported by molecular dynamics simulations.
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Polymorphism and polyamorphism in bilayer water confined to slit nanopore under high pressure
2012 · cited by 140
Paper [0] demonstrates through computer simulation that water confined in slit nanopores undergoes phase transitions and amorphization into high-density and very-high-density bilayer ice polymorphs under high pressure.
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Microsecond-Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Phase Transition of a Bilayer Ice: Kinetic Constraints in Confined Water.
2025 · cited by 0
Paper [7] shows that nanoconfined water under high lateral pressures forms distinct high-density bilayer crystalline ice phases such as bilayer very high-density ice.