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Inside Back Cover: Room‐Temperature Ice Growth on Graphite Seeded by Nano‐Graphene Oxide (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 33/2013)
Author(s) -
Zheng Yi,
Su Chenliang,
Lu Jiong,
Loh Kian Ping
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201305678
Subject(s) - graphene , nucleation , ostwald ripening , graphite , materials science , oxide , nanotechnology , graphene oxide paper , nano , substrate (aquarium) , crystal growth , chemical engineering , nanocrystal , composite material , crystallography , chemistry , metallurgy , organic chemistry , geology , oceanography , engineering
A sprinkle of nano‐sized graphene oxide flakes on graphite induces room‐temperature ice growth on the substrate. In their Communication om page 8708 ff. , K. P. Loh et al. capture the nucleation and growth processes, akin to Ostwald ripening, using noncontact atomic force microscopy. Ice with different morphologies, such as 1D row, anisotropic nanocrystal, and platelike, can be grown under ambient conditions. Such a hybrid nano graphene oxide‐graphite template can be used as a model system to study crystal nucleation and growth in real time.