title: Thermodynymic analysis of the mechanism of deep supercooling of tissue water in winter-hardy plants.
abstract: The temperature at which ice grows through narrow, hydrophilic capillary is known to be depressed. Further, the nucleation temperature near a hydrophilic surface varies with the size, geometry and the properties of a particle. In this paper we show how these two effects are additive for the water that freezes on the wall of a capillary without the presence of pre-existing ice. The combined effect is a substantial lowering of nucleation temperature that could, if this analysis is correct, have important cryobiological consequences.
authors.affiliation: College of Basic Sciences and Technique, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China.
authors.forename: Fanyi
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Wenji
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Rongfu
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Wenjie
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Qi
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhao
mesh_terms: D005615:Freezing; D010944:Plants; D013816:Thermodynamics