The glass transition of hyperquenched glassy water

Details The glass transition of hyperquenched glassy water The glass transition of hyperquenched glassy water

2001-04-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0104263v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

11 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

We review the search for the glass transition in water in its various amorphous forms, and highlight the paradoxes that the search has produced. Focussing on the glassy form of water obtained by hyperquenching, we examine its reported calorimetric properties in the light of new findings for bulk glassformers vitrified by hyperquenching. Like the hyperquenched bulk glassformers, hyperquenched water exhibits a large relaxation exotherm on reheating, as the high enthalpy quenched form relaxes to a lower enthalpy state. When the scanning temperature is scaled by the glass transition temperature, the bulk glassformers show a common pattern in this relaxation exotherm. However, when the relaxation exotherm for hyperquenched water is scaled onto the plot for the bulk glassformers using the commonly accepted glass transition temperature for water, 136K, its behavior appears completely different. If we require that the behavior of water be comparable to the other cases, except for crystallizing before the glass transition (like the majority of hyperquenched metallic glasses), then the glass transition for water must be reset to a value of 165-170K.

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