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To determine the fundamental unit cell structure and relative stability of n-gonal ice nanotubes formed by stacked water rings.

September 22, 2000The Journal of Chemical Physics

Ice nanotube: What does the unit cell look like?

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KKKenichiro KogaOkayama University RPRubén D. ParraDePaul University HTHideki TanakaZvezda (Russia)

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Structural modeling reveals a two-ring unit cell with alternating O-H bond alignments in n-gonal ice nanotubes, indicating pentagonal and hexagonal forms are the most stable.

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To determine the fundamental unit cell structure and relative stability of n-gonal ice nanotubes formed by stacked water rings.
Modeled structural configurations of n-gonal ice nanotubes constructed by stacking single-type n-gonal rings of water molecules.
Analyzed the molecular orientation of O–H bonds within adjacent rings across various n-gonal geometries.
The unit cell of an n-gonal ice nanotube consists of two stacked rings, with O–H bonds oriented clockwise in one ring and counterclockwise in the other.
Pentagonal and hexagonal ice nanotubes exhibit the highest structural stability among the n-gonal configurations examined.

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Koga et al. (2000) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7045bbac440176ef28ebce https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1289554

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Structural modeling reveals a two-ring unit cell with alternating O-H bond alignments in n-gonal ice nanotubes, indicating pentagonal and hexagonal forms are the most stable.

Ice nanotube: What does the unit cell look like?

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