{"id":200179,"date":"2024-11-26T01:44:50","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T07:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/how-tiny-droplets-can-deform-ice-findings-show-potential-for-cryopreservation-and-food-engineering"},"modified":"2024-11-26T01:44:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T07:44:50","slug":"how-tiny-droplets-can-deform-ice-findings-show-potential-for-cryopreservation-and-food-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/how-tiny-droplets-can-deform-ice-findings-show-potential-for-cryopreservation-and-food-engineering","title":{"rendered":"How tiny droplets can deform ice: Findings show potential for cryopreservation and food engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-tiny-droplets-can-deform-ice-findings-show-potential-for-cryopreservation-and-food-engineering3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When water freezes slowly, the location where water turns into ice\u2014known as the freezing front\u2014forms a straight line. Researchers from the University of Twente showed how droplets that interact with such a freezing front cause surprising deformations of this front. These new insights were <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.133.214002\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i> and show potential for applications in cryopreservation and food engineering techniques.<\/p>\n<p>When water freezes, it is often thought of as a predictable, solid block forming layer by layer. But what happens if the progressing freezing front encounters <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/tiny+particles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">tiny particles<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/droplets\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">droplets<\/a>? Researchers from the University of Twente have explored this question, discovering that droplets can cause surprising deformations in the way ice forms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When water freezes slowly, the location where water turns into ice\u2014known as the freezing front\u2014forms a straight line. Researchers from the University of Twente showed how droplets that interact with such a freezing front cause surprising deformations of this front. These new insights were published in Physical Review Letters and show potential for applications in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2017,38,1506,269,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryonics","category-engineering","category-food","category-life-extension","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}