A thermodynamic limit of the melting/freezing processes of water under strongly hydrophobic nanoscopic confinement
Résumé
We studied liquid water confined within nanopores which present
a high level of hydrophobicity thanks to a new method of
synthesis. We found that the liquid state persists down to
temperatures much lower than in the bulk and in hydrophilic
materials of comparable sizes, allowing us to define a thermo-
dynamic limit for the melting/crystallization of water