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Transition From One-Dimensional Water To Ferroelectric Ice Within A Supramolecular Architecture, Hai-Xia Zhao, Xiang-Jian Kong, Hui Li, Yi-Chang Jin, La-Sheng Long, Xiao Cheng Zeng, Rong-Bin Huang, Lan-Sun Zheng
Transition From One-Dimensional Water To Ferroelectric Ice Within A Supramolecular Architecture, Hai-Xia Zhao, Xiang-Jian Kong, Hui Li, Yi-Chang Jin, La-Sheng Long, Xiao Cheng Zeng, Rong-Bin Huang, Lan-Sun Zheng
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Ferroelectric materials are characterized by spontaneous electric polarization that can be reversed by inverting an external electric field. Owing to their unique properties, ferroelectric materials have found broad applications in microelectronics, computers, and transducers. Water molecules are dipolar and thus ferroelectric alignment of water molecules is conceivable when water freezes into special forms of ice. Although the ferroelectric ice XI has been proposed to exist on Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto, evidence of a fully protonordered ferroelectric ice is still elusive. To date, existence of ferroelectric ice with partial ferroelectric alignment has been demonstrated only in thin films of ice grown …