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In Situ Cryogenic Transmission Electron Microscopy for Characterizing the Evolution of Solidifying Water Ice in Colloidal Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2014

Kaiping Tai ,
Yin Liu  and
Shen J. Dillon
Kaiping Tai
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801, USA
Yin Liu
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801, USA
Shen J. Dillon*
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801, USA
*
*Corresponding author. [email protected]
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Abstract

The details of ice interface dynamics in complex systems are critical to a variety of natural and commercial processes. A platform for low temperature environmental transmission electron microscopy is developed and applied to characterization of ice crystallization in colloidal solutions. The platform is utilized for studying the phase evolution in ice during crystallization and the dynamic interactions of Au nanoparticles at the crystallization front. The results indicate that models developed to treat ice–particle interactions at the micron scale extend well to the nanoscale.

Keywords

in situicecolloidinterface
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In Situ Special Section
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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , April 2014 , pp. 330 - 337
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© Microscopy Society of America 2014 

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