Publications by authors named "B Issenmann"

Light and heavy water show similar anomalies in thermodynamic and dynamic properties, with a consistent trend of anomalies occurring at higher temperatures in heavy water. Viscosity also increases faster upon cooling in heavy water, causing a giant isotope effect, with a viscosity ratio near 2.4 at 244 K.

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We report measurements of the shear viscosity η in water up to 150 MPa and down to 229.5 K. This corresponds to more than 30 K supercooling below the melting line.

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We report shear viscosity of heavy water supercooled 33K below its melting point, revealing a 15-fold increase compared to room temperature. We also confirm our previous data for the viscosity of supercooled light water and reach a better accuracy. Our measurements, based on the spontaneous Brownian motion of 350nm spheres, disagree at the lowest temperature with the only other available data, based on Poiseuille flow in a narrow capillary, which may have been biased by electro-osmotic effects.

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The anomalous decrease of the viscosity of water with applied pressure has been known for over a century. It occurs concurrently with major structural changes: The second coordination shell around a molecule collapses onto the first shell. Viscosity is thus a macroscopic witness of the progressive breaking of the tetrahedral hydrogen bond network that makes water so peculiar.

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The viscosity of a liquid measures its resistance to flow, with consequences for hydraulic machinery, locomotion of microorganisms, and flow of blood in vessels and sap in trees. Viscosity increases dramatically upon cooling, until dynamical arrest when a glassy state is reached. Water is a notoriously poor glassformer, and the supercooled liquid crystallizes easily, making the measurement of its viscosity a challenging task.

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