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Area of Science:

  • Physical Chemistry
  • Materials Science
  • Biophysics

Background:

  • Ice recrystallization negatively impacts cryopreservation, agriculture, and the frozen food industry.
  • Recrystallization mechanisms, Ostwald ripening and accretion, lack detailed microscopic understanding.
  • Current experimental techniques are limited in exploring these ice-water interface phenomena.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate ice recrystallization via the accretion process at an atomistic level.
  • To elucidate the binding mechanism at the diffused ice-water interface.
  • To understand the role of interfacial water in ice crystal binding and antifreeze protein interactions.

Main Methods:

  • Atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were employed.
  • Simulations explored the spontaneous binding of two ice crystals in liquid water.
  • Interactions between an ice crystal and an antifreeze protein's ice-binding surface (IBS) were simulated.

Main Results:

  • Two ice crystals spontaneously bind via accretion, forming larger crystals.
  • Binding is driven by the freezing of interfacial water between ice planes, even above the melting point.
  • Synergistic ordering of interfacial water by ice surfaces facilitates this freezing and binding.
  • Binding to antifreeze protein IBS also involves interfacial water freezing.
  • Crystallographic alignment is not essential for ice crystal binding.

Conclusions:

  • Synergistic ordering-driven freezing of interfacial water is a common binding mechanism at diffused ice surfaces.
  • This provides a microscopic understanding of ice recrystallization.
  • Findings can aid in designing materials for effective recrystallization inhibition.