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In order to understand the role played by kaolinite in heterogeneous ice nucleation, an extensive density-functional theory study has been performed for water on its (001) basal plane. Water monomers at low coverage, water clusters, water bilayers and water multilayers have all been examined. The most important and interesting results from this study are: (i) water monomers bind strongly to kaolinite...
The long-standing belief that kaolinite is one of the most efficient natural ice nucleating agents because it provides a close lattice match to the basal plane of ice is called into question. Instead we show through an extensive series of first principles calculations that amphoterism is key to many of the interesting properties of kaolinite with regard to water adsorption and ice nucleation.
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