Structure Discovery in Atomic Force Microscopy Imaging of Ice
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2024-02-05
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ACS Nano, Volume 18, issue 7, pp. 5546–5555
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The interaction of water with surfaces is crucially important in a wide range of natural and technological settings. In particular, at low temperatures, unveiling the atomistic structure of adsorbed water clusters would provide valuable data for understanding the ice nucleation process. Using high-resolution atomic force microscopy (AFM) and scanning tunneling microscopy, several studies have demonstrated the presence of water pentamers, hexamers, and heptamers (and of their combinations) on a variety of metallic surfaces, as well as the initial stages of 2D ice growth on an insulating surface. However, in all of these cases, the observed structures were completely flat, providing a relatively straightforward path to interpretation. Here, we present high-resolution AFM measurements of several water clusters on Au(111) and Cu(111), whose understanding presents significant challenges due to both their highly 3D configuration and their large size. For each of them, we use a combination of machine learning, atomistic modeling with neural network potentials, and statistical sampling to propose an underlying atomic structure, finally comparing its AFM simulated images to the experimental ones. These results provide insights into the early phases of ice formation, which is a ubiquitous phenomenon ranging from biology to astrophysics.Description
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atomic force microscopy, ice nanoclusters, machine learning, neural network potentials, tip functionalization
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Priante, F, Oinonen, N, Tian, Y, Guan, D, Xu, C, Cai, S, Liljeroth, P, Jiang, Y & Foster, A S 2024, ' Structure Discovery in Atomic Force Microscopy Imaging of Ice ', ACS Nano, vol. 18, no. 7, pp. 5546–5555 . https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.3c10958