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INTERNATIONAL REVIEWS IN PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 23, Issue 3, Pages 375-433Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/01442350412331316124
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A joint computational and experimental effort was directed towards the understanding of large solid water clusters. The computations included structure optimizations and calculations of OH stretch spectra for select sizes in the range n=20-931. The measurements focused predominantly on OH stretch spectroscopy as a function of mean cluster size. FTIR spectra are discussed for the size range of tens to hundreds-of-thousands of molecules. Photofragment spectroscopy in molecular beams is shown to be a sensitive probe of the outer cluster surfaces. The crucial element of the different experimental approaches is the control and the estimation of the mean cluster sizes. The combined experimental and computational results are consistent with the physical picture of quasispherical nanocrystals with disordered reconstructed surface layers. The surface reconstruction can be viewed as the outcome of recombination of surface dangling atoms, to increase the number of hydrogen bonds. The hydrogen bonds within the mostly crystalline subsurface layer are stretched by the interaction with the disordered component. The emergence of the (strained) crystal core occurs at a size of a few hundred H2O. Smaller clusters are described as compact-amorphous.
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