Scientists create one-dimensional ferroelectric ice

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Scientists create one-dimensional ferroelectric ice

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-02-scient...ectric-ice.html


(PhysOrg.com) -- Everyone knows that when water freezes, it forms ice. But a lesser known fact is that there is not one, but many different kinds of ice, depending on the way the ice crystals are arranged. In a new study, a team of chemists has developed a new method for synthesizing a type of ferroelectric ice, which is crystallized so that all of its bonds line up in the same direction, producing a large electric field
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