Localization of water monomers inside ice-like clusters

TL;DR

This paper proposes a model suggesting water monomers can be trapped inside ice-like clusters' channels, based on experimental data and dipole particle motion in electric field gradients.

Contribution

It introduces a simple physical model explaining how water monomers may be confined within ice-like cluster channels, supported by experimental observations.

Findings

Water monomers can be trapped in ice-like clusters.

The model describes finite and infinite motion regimes.

Experimental data supports the confinement hypothesis.

Abstract

On the basis of the experimental data we suggest that water monomers could be trapped in channels running through ice-like clusters in water. Our argument relies on a simple model that describes the motion of a dipole particle inside a channel in the presence of an electric field with linear gradient. The model admits of both finite and infinite regimes of motion so that the finite one could correspond to the particle being confined to a channel.