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Search DetailsMurata Ken-ichiro
| Institute of Low Temperature Science Joint Research Division | Associate Professor |
Researcher basic information
■ Degree■ URL
researchmap URLホームページURL■ Various IDs
Researcher number
- 60646272
Research KeywordResearch Field
- Nanotechnology/Materials, Crystal engineering
- Natural Science, Biophysics, chemical physics and soft matter physics
- Master's degree program, Graduate School of Science
- Doctoral (PhD) degree program, Graduate School of Science
Career
■ CareerCareer
- Jul. 2026 - Present
Hokkaido University, Institute of Low Temperature Science, 准教授 - Apr. 2014 - Jun. 2026
Hokkaido University, Institute of Low Temperature Science, 助教 - Dec. 2013 - Mar. 2014
東京大学, 生産技術研究所, 特任助教 - Apr. 2012 - Nov. 2013
The University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science, 特任研究員 - Apr. 2009 - Mar. 2012
The University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science, 研究機関研究員 - Apr. 2007 - Mar. 2009
日本学術振興会, 特別研究員(DC2)
Research activity information
■ Awards- Nov. 2025, 日本結晶成長学会, 日本結晶成長学会第42回論文賞
氷の融液成長機構の解明
村田憲一郎 - Mar. 2020, The Physical Society of Japan, Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan
Elucidating the mechanism of surface melting of ice crystals
Ken-ichiro Murata, Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University - Nov. 2017, The Japanese Association for Crystal Growth, The 15th JACG Young Researcher Award
Elucidating the Thermodynamic Origin of Surface Melting on Ice Crystals
Ken-ichiro Murata
- Nonreactive Ambient Nitrogen Gas Significantly Suppresses the Growth Kinetics of Elementary Spiral Steps on Prism Faces of Ice Crystals
Yuheng Zhao; Ken Nagashima; Ken-ichiro Murata; Gen Sazaki
Crystal Growth & Design, 04 Feb. 2026
Scientific journal - Microscopic View on the Melt Growth of Ice Basal Face
Mochizuki Kenji; Murata Ken-ichiro
Butsuri, 79, 9, 495, 500, The Physical Society of Japan, 05 Sep. 2024
Japanese, Growth of ice crystals is ubiquitous around us. However, despite its importance in nature and technology, we still do not know what is occurring at the forefront in the melt growth of ice. Here, using extensive molecular dynamics simulations, we comprehensively explore how supercooled water molecules are incorporated into the ice basal face. Structural and dynamic characterizations of the ice-water interface demonstrate that the ice basal face is sharp at the molecular level and its growth proceeds layer-by-layer through two-dimensional nucleation without any intermediate structures. We further quantify the crossover from layerwise to adhesive growth, called kinetic roughening, with the height difference correlation and the normal growth rate analysis. Moreover, we identify the presence of an ultra-low density water layer in contact with the structural interface, which assists two-dimensional nucleation at a small amount of supercooling without involving any triggers, such as dislocations. - In situ cryogenic transmission electron microscopy observation on the formation of hydrogen-ordered hexagonal ices and its astrophysical implications
Tomoya Yamazaki; Akira Kouchi; Ken-ichiro Murata; Hiroyasu Katsuno; Hiroki Nada; Tetsuya Hama; Yuki Kimura
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP), 06 Nov. 2023
Scientific journal, Abstract
Water ices play a critical role in various astrophysical phenomena and store information about the thermal history of icy grains. To understand this history, clarifying the formation conditions in astrophysical environments is critical. In addition to taking the form of amorphous ices, ice can take four crystalline forms: hexagonal ice I (ice Ih), cubic ice I (ice Ic) and hydrogen-ordered hexagonal ice (ice XIh) and cubic ice (ice XIc). The aim of this article is to study the conditions for phase transitions among these different crystalline ices. We found through cryogenic transmission electron microscopy observations that some polymorphs of ice XIh were formed by simple annealing of ice Ih at 120–150 K without any dopant or irradiation. We also investigated the formation conditions of ice Ih by vapor deposition and heating of ice Ic in protoplanetary disks. The transition kinetics from ice Ih to ice XIh suggested that ice XIh exists between the transition temperature from ice Ic to ice Ih and 150 K. From these results, we constructed a water-vapor flux–temperature–time diagram that clarifies the amorphous, Ic, Ih, XIc and XIh ice phases. We found that, under the conditions encountered in most protostars, hydrogen-ordered ices XIh and XIc can exist just outside the snow line and below 125 K, respectively. The infrared libration modes should enable these phases to be distinguished observationally. Because some of these phases are chiral, their presence could fundamentally affect the evolution of other homochiral organic molecules that develop on their surface. - Microscopic ordering of supercooled water on the ice basal face
Kenji Mochizuki; Ken-ichiro Murata; Xuan Zhang
COMMUNICATIONS MATERIALS, 4, 1, May 2023
English, Scientific journal - The emergence of drop-type and thin-layer-type quasi-liquid layers on ice crystal surfaces and their thermodynamic origin
Gen Sazaki; Ken-ichiro Murata; Harutoshi Asakawa; Ken Nagashima; Shunichi Nakatsubo; Yoshinori Furukawa
JOURNAL OF CRYSTAL GROWTH, 597, Nov. 2022
English, Scientific journal - Growth Kinetics of Elementary Spiral Steps on Ice Prism Faces Grown in Vapor and Their Temperature Dependence
Genki Miyamoto; Akira Kouchi; Ken-ichiro Murata; Ken Nagashima; Gen Sazaki
CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN, Oct. 2022
English, Scientific journal - Step-bunching instability of growing interfaces between ice and supercooled water
Ken-ichiro Murata; Masahide Sato; Makio Uwaha; Fumiaki Saito; Ken Nagashima; Gen Sazaki
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 119, 10, Mar. 2022
English, Scientific journal - In-situ optical microscopy observation of elementary steps on ice crystals grown in vapor and their growth kinetics
Gen Sazaki; Masahiro Inomata; Harutoshi Asakawa; Etsuro Yokoyama; Shunichi Nakatsubo; Ken-ichiro Murata; Ken Nagashima; Yoshinori Furukawa
Progress in Crystal Growth and Characterization of Materials, 67, 4, 100550, 01 Nov. 2021, [Peer-reviewed]
English - Transmission Electron Microscopy Study of the Morphology of Ices Composed of H2O, CO2, and CO on Refractory Grains
Akira Kouchi; Masashi Tsuge; Tetsuya Hama; Yasuhiro Oba; Satoshi Okuzumi; Sin-iti Sirono; Munetake Momose; Naoki Nakatani; Kenji Furuya; Takashi Shimonishi; Tomoya Yamazaki; Hiroshi Hidaka; Yuki Kimura; Ken-ichiro Murata; Kazuyuki Fujita; Shunichi Nakatsubo; Shogo Tachibana; Naoki Watanabe
The Astrophysical Journal, 918, 2, 45, 45, American Astronomical Society, 01 Sep. 2021, [Peer-reviewed]
Scientific journal - H2O~構造・物性研究の最先端~5 高分解光学顕微鏡で見る氷結晶のミクロな成長ダイナミクス
村田憲一郎
化学と工業, 74, 5, 360, 362, May 2021, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited]
Japanese - HCl Droplets Induced Bunched Steps on Ice Crystal Surfaces under Atmospheric-Concentration HCl Gas
Ken Nagashima; Ken-ichiro Murata; Gen Sazaki
CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN, 21, 4, 2508, 2515, Apr. 2021, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Ice Crystal Growth Experiments Conducted in the Kibo of International Space Station
Ken-ichiro Murata
International journal of microgravity science and application, 31 Jan. 2021
English, Scientific journal - Quasi-liquid Layers in Grooves of Grain Boundaries and on Grain Surfaces of Polycrystalline Ice Thin Films
Jialu Chen; Takao Maki; Ken Nagashima; Ken-ichiro Murata; Gen Sazaki
CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN, 20, 11, 7188, 7196, Nov. 2020, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Quasi-Liquid Layers Can Exist on Polycrystalline Ice Thin Films at a Temperature Significantly Lower than on Ice Single Crystals (vol 19, pg 116, 2019)
Jialu Chen; Takao Maki; Ken Nagashima; Ken-ichiro Murata; Gen Sazaki
CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN, 20, 7, 4852, 4854, Jul. 2020, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Direct Observation of Bound Water on Cotton Surfaces by Atomic Force Microscopy and Atomic Force Microscopy–Infrared Spectroscopy
Takako Igarashi; Masato Hoshi; Koichi Nakamura; Takeshi Kaharu; Ken-ichiro Murata
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, American Chemical Society ({ACS}), 20 Feb. 2020, [Peer-reviewed]
Scientific journal - Appearance and Disappearance of Quasi-Liquid Layers on Ice Crystals in the Presence of Nitric Acid Gas
Ken Nagashima; Josee Maurais; Ken-ichiro Murata; Yoshinori Furukawa; Patrick Ayotte; Gen Sazaki
CRYSTALS, 10, 2, 72, 72, Feb. 2020, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Link between molecular mobility and order parameter during liquid–liquid transition of a molecular liquid
Ken-ichiro Murata; Hajime Tanaka
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116, 15, 7176, 7185, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 09 Apr. 2019, [Peer-reviewed]
Scientific journal - Crystal-plane-dependent effects of antifreeze glycoprotein impurity for ice growth dynamics
Yoshinori Furukawa; Ken Nagashima; Shunichi Nakatsubo; Salvador Zepeda; Ken-ichiro Murata; Gen Sazaki
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 377, 2146, 20180393, 20180393, The Royal Society, Apr. 2019, [Peer-reviewed]
Scientific journal - Quasi-Liquid Layers Can Exist on Polycrystalline Ice Thin Films at a Temperature Significantly Lower than on Ice Single Crystals
Jialu Chen; Ken Nagashima; Ken-Ichiro Murata; Gen Sazaki
Crystal Growth and Design, 19, 1, 116, 124, American Chemical Society, 02 Jan. 2019
English, Scientific journal - How Do Ice Crystals Grow inside Quasiliquid Layers?
Ken-ichiro Murata; Ken Nagashima; Gen Sazaki
Physical Review Letters, 122, 2, American Physical Society ({APS}), Jan. 2019, [Peer-reviewed]
Scientific journal - In situ observations of spiral growth on ice crystal surfaces
Ken-ichiro Murata; Ken Nagashima; Gen Sazaki
Physical Review Materials, 2, 9, American Physical Society ({APS}), 10 Sep. 2018, [Peer-reviewed]
Scientific journal - Uptake Mechanism of Atmospheric Hydrogen Chloride Gas in Ice Crystals via Hydrochloric Acid Droplets
Ken Nagashima; Gen Sazaki; Tetsuya Hama; Ken-ichiro Murata; Yoshinori Furukawa
Crystal Growth & Design, American Chemical Society ({ACS}), 05 Jul. 2018, [Peer-reviewed]
Scientific journal - Temperature Dependence of the Growth Kinetics of Elementary Spiral Steps on Ice Basal Faces Grown from Water Vapor
Masahiro Inomata; Ken-ichiro Murata; Harutoshi Asakawa; Ken Nagashima; Shunichi Nakatsubo; Yoshinori Furukawa; Gen Sazaki
Crystal Growth & Design, 18, 2, 786, 793, American Chemical Society ({ACS}), 04 Jan. 2018, [Peer-reviewed]
Scientific journal - Why is the Surface of Ice Wet?
村田憲一郎; 佐崎元
日本物理学会誌, 72, 9, 669, 674, 日本物理学会, Sep. 2017, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited]
Japanese - Liquid-like behavior of UV-irradiated interstellar ice analog at low temperatures
Shogo Tachibana; Akira Kouchi; Tetsuya Hama; Yasuhiro Oba; Laurette Piani; Iyo Sugawara; Yukiko Endo; Hiroshi Hidaka; Yuki Kimura; Ken-ichiro Murata; Hisayoshi Yurimoto; Naoki Watanabe
Science Advances, 3, 9, eaao2538, American Association for the Advancement of Science ({AAAS}), Sep. 2017, [Peer-reviewed]
Scientific journal - Oscillations and accelerations of ice crystal growth rates in microgravity in presence of antifreeze glycoprotein impurity in supercooled water
Yoshinori Furukawa; Ken Nagashima; Shun-ichi Nakatsubo; Izumi Yoshizaki; Haruka Tamaru; Taro Shimaoka; Takehiko Sone; Etsuro Yokoyama; Salvador Zepeda; Takanori Terasawa; Harutoshi Asakawa; Ken-ichiro Murata; Gen Sazaki
Scientific Reports, 7, 43157, 43157, Springer Nature, 06 Mar. 2017, [Peer-reviewed]
Scientific journal - Impact of surface roughness on liquid-liquid transition
Ken-ichiro Murata; Hajime Tanaka
Science Advances, 3, 2, e1602209, American Association for the Advancement of Science ({AAAS}), Feb. 2017, [Peer-reviewed]
Scientific journal - Thermodynamic origin of surface melting on ice crystals
Ken-ichiro Murata; Harutoshi Asakawa; Ken Nagashima; Yoshinori Furukawa; Gen Sazaki
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113, 44, E6741, E6748, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Oct. 2016, [Peer-reviewed]
Scientific journal - In-situ observation of crystal surfaces by optical microscopy
Gen Sazaki; Ken Nagashima; Ken-ichiro Murata; Yoshinori Furukawa
Progress in Crystal Growth and Characterization of Materials, 62, 2, 408, 412, Elsevier {BV}, Jun. 2016, [Peer-reviewed]
Scientific journal - Direct Visualization of Quasi-Liquid Layers on Ice Crystal Surfaces Induced by Hydrogen Chloride Gas
Ken Nagashima; Gen Sazaki; Tetsuya Hama; Harutoshi Asakawa; Ken-ichiro Murata; Yoshinori Furukawa
Crystal Growth & Design, 16, 4, 2225, 2230, American Chemical Society ({ACS}), 06 Apr. 2016, [Peer-reviewed]
Scientific journal - Microscopic identification of the order parameter governing liquid–liquid transition in a molecular liquid
Ken-ichiro Murata; Hajime Tanaka
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112, 19, 5956, 5961, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Apr. 2015, [Peer-reviewed]
Scientific journal - In situ Determination of Surface Tension-to-Shear Viscosity Ratio for Quasiliquid Layers on Ice Crystal Surfaces
Ken-ichiro Murata; Harutoshi Asakawa; Ken Nagashima; Yoshinori Furukawa; Gen Sazaki
Physical Review Letters, 115, 25, American Physical Society ({APS}), 2015, [Peer-reviewed]
Scientific journal - General nature of liquid–liquid transition in aqueous organic solutions
Ken-ichiro Murata; Hajime Tanaka
Nature Communications, 4, Springer Nature, Nov. 2013, [Peer-reviewed]
Scientific journal - Experimental indication for liquid-liquid transition in aqueous solutions
Ken-Ichiro Murata; Hajime Tanaka
AIP Conference Proceedings, 1518, 284, 287, American Institute of Physics, 2013, [Peer-reviewed]
English, International conference proceedings - Novel kinetic trapping in charged colloidal clusters due to self-induced surface charge organization
Christian L. Klix; Ken-Ichiro Murata; Hajime Tanaka; Stephen R. Williams; Alex Malins; C. Patrick Royall
Scientific Reports, 3, 1, Nature Publishing Group, 2013, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Liquid-liquid transition without macroscopic phase separation in a water-glycerol mixture
Ken-ichiro Murata; Hajime Tanaka
NATURE MATERIALS, 11, 5, 436, 443, May 2012, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Surface-wetting effects on the liquid-liquid transition of a single-component molecular liquid
Ken-ichiro Murata; Hajime Tanaka
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 1, 2, 1, May 2010, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Control of fluidity and miscibility of a binary liquid mixture by the liquid-liquid transition
Rei Kurita; Ken-ichiro Murata; Hajime Tanaka
NATURE MATERIALS, 7, 8, 647, 652, Aug. 2008, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Kinetics and control of liquid-liquid transition
Hajime Tanaka; Rei Kurita; Ken-ichiro Murata
COMPLEX SYSTEMS-BOOK 1, 982, 24, 33, 2008, [Peer-reviewed]
English, International conference proceedings - Dynamic Nature of the Liquid-Liquid Transition of Triphenyl Phosphite Studied by Simultaneous Measurements of Dielectric and Morphological Evolution
Ken-ichiro Murata; Rei Kurita; Hajime Tanaka; Michio Tokuyama; Irwin Oppenheim; Hideya Nishiyama
AIP, 2008, [Peer-reviewed] - Broadband complex permittivity measurement techniques of materials with thin configuration at microwave frequencies
K Murata; A Hanawa; R Nozaki
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, 98, 8, 084107, Oct. 2005, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal
- Step-bunching Instability of Growing Interfaces between Ice and Supercooled Water
村田憲一郎; 佐崎元, 表面と真空, 66, 4, 2023
■ Affiliated academic society
■ Research Themes
- Studies on the correlation between structural changes in the outermost surface layers of ice crystals and their growth kinetics at ultra-high temperatures
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
01 Apr. 2023 - 31 Mar. 2026
佐崎 元; 長嶋 剣; 村田 憲一郎
令和5(2023)年度には,次の3点の開発および研究を行った.
1)低温観察チャンバーシステムの作製:-20~0°Cの温度領域で±0.05°Cの温度精度で氷結晶の温度を制御できる観察チャンバーシステム(既に1台現有)を新たに1台作製した.
2)極低温観察チャンバーシステムの作製:-140~-20°Cの極めて幅広い温度領域で±0.1°Cの温度精度で氷結晶の温度を制御できる観察チャンバーシステムを全く新たに設計・開発した.
(1)開発第1号機:ロータリー式真空ポンプによる減圧を利用して液体窒素を送液することで,無酸素銅製のステージを冷却した.また,銅ステージにヒーターを取り付け,液体窒素の送液量とヒーターの加熱量を精密に制御することで温度を制御した.しかし,減圧された配管内部での液体窒素の昇華に伴い,温度が低下し液体窒素が固化する現象が頻発した.これを防ぐために,配管に外部から十分な量の熱が常に伝わる構造とした.その結果,本チャンバーは-90°Cまで温度を下げた状態で,チャンバー内部に約10°Cの温度分布ができてしまうことがわかり,開発を断念した.ステージが外部と比較的多く熱接触していたことが,温度分布発生の原因であると考えられた.
(2)開発第2号機:そこで,次にステージと外部との接触面積を,力学的な強度が確保できる限りにおいて最小にすることで温度分布の改善を試みた.その結果,温度を-140°Cまで低下させることに成功したとともに,-140°C時におけるステージ内の温度分布を0.8°C以内に抑え,ほぼ均一な温度分布を実現することにも成功した.
3)1)2)で作製した両観察チャンバー中で氷結晶を成長させ,氷結晶表面上の単位ステップをレーザー共焦点微分干渉顕微鏡を用いてその場観察することにも成功した.今後,様々な温度領域で単位ステップの形状や成長ダイナミクスを観察・計量する予定である.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Hokkaido University, 23K26555 - Exploring general nature of interfacial melting on ice crystals: in situ approach by optical microscopy
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
01 Apr. 2021 - 31 Mar. 2024
村田 憲一郎
令和3年度は,主に①正立型レーザー共焦点微分干渉顕微鏡(LCM-DIM)システムの構築とLCM-DIMによる一分子段差の検出,および②全反射照明を組み込んだ氷成長観察チャンバー(正立用)の開発に取り組んだ.以下にその概要を記す.
①正立型LCM-DIMの構築後,標準試料として石膏とシリコンカーバイトの結晶表面を観察し,両サンプルにおいて一分子段差(それぞれ,0.76nm,0.5nm)の観察に成功した.当初の計画通り,既存のLCM-DIM(オリンパス社製)と同等の高さ分解能を達成しつつ,時間分解能を上回る性能を得られた.加えて,Zeiss社の独自技術である円偏光微分干渉顕微鏡(C-DIC)の共焦点化にも取り組んだ.通常の微分干渉顕微鏡は,段差コントラストに異方性を持ち,特定方向のコントラストが落ちることが知られている.従来のLCM-DIMにおいても同様の弱点があり,コントラストの弱い単位ステップのダイナミクスをその場観察する上で弊害となり得る.一方,C-DICでは円偏光を用いることで,コントラストの異方性を任意の方向に制御することが可能である.今回の研究により,C-DICの共焦点化に成功し,Åオーダーの高さ分解能を維持しつつコントラストの異方性を任意に調整することが可能となった.
②倒立型顕微鏡用にプロトタイプとして作成していた全反射照明系氷成長観察チャンバーを改良し,正立型LCM-DIMで使用できるようにした.これにより,次年度にシングルフォトン検出器を導入次第,直ちに微粒子からのエバネッセント光の散乱を観察できる段階に入った.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Hokkaido University, 21H01824 - Studies on the mechanisms of surface melting of ice polycrystals
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
01 Apr. 2019 - 31 Mar. 2022
Sazaki Gen
We observed the surface melting of polycrystalline ice using an advanced optical microscope, then obtained the following five findings. 1) At temperatures higher than -1.9±0.4 °C, quasi-liquid layers (QLLs) are formed in grooves of grain boundaries. 2) At temperatures higher than -0.7±0.2 °C, QLLs appear on grain surfaces. However, as time elapsed, the QLLs spontaneously disappear within 10 min. 3) At temperatures higher than -0.2 °C, large amount of QLLs appear from grooves of grain boundaries and fully cover grain surfaces. 4) QLLs on grain surfaces show better wettability than those on ice single crystal surfaces. 5) When small amount of NaCl is added, QLLs appear even at -11 °C.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Hokkaido University, 19H02611 - Hierarchical dynamics of crystal-melt interfaces
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A)
01 Apr. 2016 - 31 Mar. 2019
Ken-ichiro Murata
We have made in situ observations of ice-water interfaces with laser confocal microscopy combined with differential interference microscopy (LCM-DIM), whose resolution in the height direction reaches the order of an angstrom. We have demonstrated the microscopic structure of these interfaces and the hierarchical dynamics of ice interfaces during the melt growth. Specifically, we have revealed that there exist elementary (mono-molecular) steps even in supercooled water and these elementary steps often exhibit the bunching instability on the vicinal basal face, depending on experimental conditions.
In addition, with the aid of LCM-DIM, we have made direct observations of the formation of quasi liquid layers (QLLs) on ice surfaces, which allows us to elucidate a thermodynamic origin of surface melting of ice crystals. We also succeeded in making in situ observations of the perfect spiral growth during the vapor growth of ice.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A), Hokkaido University, 16H05979 - Visualization of chemical reactions on crystal surfaces: the elucidation of adsorption/melting reactions of acid gases on ice crystal surfaces
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
01 Apr. 2015 - 31 Mar. 2018
Sazaki Gen; FURUKAWA YOSHINORI; INOMATA MASAHIRO; CHEN JIALU
We obtained following six findings. 1) HCl gas induces the formation of droplets of HCl aqueous solution on ice crystal surfaces in the temperature range, in which no quasi-liquid layer (QLL) appear in the absence of HCl gas. 2) The HCl-solution droplets are incorporated into ice crystals as liquid inclusions when we grow ice crystals in the presence of HCl gas. 3) An wetting angle of the HCl-solution droplets on ice crystal surfaces is significantly larger than that of pure water. 4) Carbon dioxide and oxygen gasses do not induce the formation of liquid droplets on ice crystal surfaces. 5) Droplet and thin-layer types QLLs are 20-times and 200-times less fluidic than bulk water. The droplet and thin-layer types QLLs are formed by changes in the wettability of liquid water on ice crystal surfaces with changes in water vapor pressure. 6) The growth kinetics of elementary spiral steps on ice basal faces shows complicated temperature dependence.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Hokkaido University, 15H02016 - Anisotropic function of antifreeze protein for ice crystal growth - To elucidate growth promotion and inhibition mechanism
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
01 Apr. 2014 - 31 Mar. 2018
FURUKAWA Yoshinori
Growth experiments of an ice crystal in a supercooled solution of antifreeze protein were carried out and separately measured the growth rates for the basal and prism faces. We clarified that the growth of basal faces was enhanced by the effect of antifreeze protein, while the growth of prism faces was suppressed. It means that the effects of antifreeze proteins for ice crystal growth were different for every crystallographic faces.
The growth promotion of basal face was explained by a new model that the adsorbed antifreeze protein molecules on the edges of growth steps may work as the new sources to generate new growth steps on the basal faces. We clarified that the mechanism for the freezing inhibition of living organisms under the sub-zero temperature environments was compatibly explained on the basis of the anisotropic functions of antifreeze proteins for ice crystal growth.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Hokkaido University, 26287095 - A competition between phase transition dynamics and the nonlinear rheology in granular matter
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
01 Apr. 2013 - 31 Mar. 2015
MURATA Ken-ichiro
We have experimentally investigated a dynamic competition between the strongly non-equilibrium state associated with phase transitions and instabilities, and the nonlinear rheology of granular matter. In this study, using dewetting (one of the interfacial instabilities) of the thin film of wet foam as an example, we performed real-space and -time observations of the ordering process ranging from the birth of the instability involving one particle motion to macroscopic coarsening in the late stage. We found a new scaling law in the ordering dynamics of the instability, focusing on the violation of the conventional scaling law in usual viscous fluids due to the nonlinear rheology of wet foam.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), 25800234 - Studies on the dynamic behavior of quasi-liquid layers on ice crystal surfaces by advanced optical microscopy
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
01 Apr. 2011 - 31 Mar. 2015
SAZAKI GEN; FURUKAWA Yoshinori; NAGASHIMA Ken; MURATA Ken-ichiro; ASAKAWA Harutoshi; KIYOTA Tatsuo; INOMATA Masahiro
We first devised an observation chamber in which temperature of sample ice crystals and supersaturation of water vapor can be controlled separately. Then we obtained the following five findings. 1) Only under supersaturated condition (higher than a critical value), two types of quasi-liquid layer (QLL) phases with drop and thin-layer shapes are formed on ice basal faces. 2) Strain formed around lattice defects in ice crystals significantly induces the formation of the two QLL phases. 3) On prism and other high-index faces, the two QLL phases with the drop and thin-layer shapes are also formed in the temperature ranges similar to those on basal faces. 4) Volume diffusion (in a bulk gas phase) and surface diffusion (on basal faces) of water vapor molecules govern the lateral advancement rate of elementary steps on ice basal faces. 5) On basal faces, spiral steps formed by screw dislocations exhibit a double-spiral structure because of a crystallographic requirement.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Hokkaido University, 23246001 - 単成分液体における液体・液体相転移の外場制御
科学研究費助成事業 特別研究員奨励費
2007 - 2008
村田 憲一郎
液体・液体転移とは、単一成分液体が別の液相に一次転移する現象であり、液体の本質に関わる現象として極めて重要である。しかし、それらの転移点が高温・高圧、もしくは結晶化に対する絶対不安定領域に存在するという困難な実験条件のため、実験事実を基にした本格的なアプローチは殆どなされていなかった。我々の研究グループは常温・常圧下に液体・液体転移が存在する亜リン酸トリフェニル(以下TPP)、n-butanolを発見し、昨年度はその微視的機構を中心に研究を進めてきた。この現象の基礎学術的な重要性もさることながら、二つの液相間で物理的・化学的性質(屈折率、誘電率、粘性、濡れ性、異種物質に対する相溶性など)が異なることから、液体の新たな物性制御法としても極めて重要であるといえる。そこで本年度は、表面効果やレーザー光を用いて、液体・液体転移を時間的・空間的に制御することを目的として研究を行った。そこで、初めにこの転移における濡れの影響について検証した。我々は液体IIの濡れ性を表面物質を選択することで制御し、今まで観察されなかった転移キネティクスを見出すことに成功した。更に、この液体IIの濡れ性に付随して、基板表面におけるメゾスコピックスケールでのモルフォロジーの変化が、この転移のキネティクスを時間的・空間的に大きく変更されることも見出した。また、レーザー光により発生する電歪効果を用いて液体・液体転移を誘起し、レーザー光の高い空間分解能を生かして、液体IIのマイクロメートルスケールでのパターン制御にも成功している。本研究テーマは、液体・液体転移を表面効果やレーザー光を用いて直接制御することにより、同じ物質でありながらその物性を時間的・空間的に大きく変えるという画期的な試みであり、基礎・応用の両面で極めて大きなインパクトがあると考えている。
日本学術振興会, 特別研究員奨励費, 東京大学, 07J03498
