Abstract
Recently, our earlier data which led us to conclude that deeply supercooled water displays a second glass transition (Amann-Winkel et al., 2013) was reinterpreted (Johari, 2015). In particular, the increase in heat capacity observed for high-density amorphous ice (HDA) samples at 116 K was reinterpreted to indicate sub-Tg features of low-density amorphous ice's (LDA's) glass transition. We reply to the criticism in detail and report an experiment triggered by the comment on our work. This experiment unequivocally confirms our original interpretation of the observations and reinforces the case for water's second glass transition, its polyamorphism, and the observation of two distinct ultraviscous states of water differing by about 25% in density.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 200-207 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Thermochimica Acta |
| Volume | 617 |
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| State | Published - Oct 10 2015 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Funding
We are thankful to the Austrian Science Fund FWF (START award Y391 and project I1392) and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel award to T.L.) for financial support. Work at the Technische Universität Dortmund was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
Keywords
- Amorphous ices
- Deeply supercooled liquid water
- Dielectric relaxation spectroscopy
- Differential scanning calorimetry
- Glass transitions
- Metastability
- Polyamorphism