New High-Pressure Phases of Ice

2D IR spectroscopy of high-pressure phases of ice.

We present experimental and simulated 2D IR spectra of some high-pressure forms of isotope-pure D2O ice and compare the results to those of ice Ih published previously [F. Perakis and P. Hamm, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 14, 6250 (2012); L. Shi et al., ibid. 18, 3772 (2016)]. Ice II, ice V, and ice XIII have been chosen for this study, since this selection covers many aspects of the polymorphism of...

New high-pressure phase of ice.

High-pressure phases of nitrogen.

Density-functional-theory calculations and a structure-searching method are used to identify candidate high-pressure phases of nitrogen. We find six structures which are calculated to be more stable than previously studied structures at some pressures. Our four new molecular structures give insight into the most efficient packings of nitrogen molecules at high pressures, and we predict two new ...

Ice phases under ambient and high pressure: Insights from density functional theory

Water is common and plays a crucial role in biological, chemical, and physical processes, but its crystalline or ice state has a complicated structure. In this work, we study the lattice mismatch challenge for ice nucleation on silver iodide, the sublimation energy for different ice phases, and the structural phase-transition pressures of ice, with various density functionals. Our calculations ...

Superconducting high-pressure phases of disilane.

High-pressure structures of disilane (Si(2)H(6)) are investigated extensively by means of first-principles density functional theory and a random structure-searching method. Three metallic structures with P-1, Pm-3m, and C2/c symmetries are found, which are more stable than those of XY(3)-type candidates under high pressure. Enthalpy calculations suggest a remarkably wide decomposition (Si and ...