{"id":234546,"date":"2026-04-03T04:27:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T09:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/quasi-liquid-layer-controls-growth-mechanisms-of-ice-like-materials"},"modified":"2026-04-03T04:27:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T09:27:55","slug":"quasi-liquid-layer-controls-growth-mechanisms-of-ice-like-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/quasi-liquid-layer-controls-growth-mechanisms-of-ice-like-materials","title":{"rendered":"Quasi-liquid layer controls growth mechanisms of ice-like materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quasi-liquid-layer-controls-growth-mechanisms-of-ice-like-materials2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clathrate hydrates are crystalline structures formed at the bottom of seafloors, created by water molecules trapping methane, carbon dioxide or other molecules. While these materials are underutilized in technology, a University of Oklahoma researcher is helping scientists better understand them through a trailblazing study.<\/p>\n<p>Alberto Striolo, a professor in OU\u2019s Gallogly College of Engineering, co-authored an article <a href=\"https:\/\/pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2521343123\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i> that addresses a key challenge toward utilizing hydrates: their slow growth rates. He and his fellow researchers have discovered an unusual interfacial layer on the hydrate that impacts its growth rate.<\/p>\n<p>Striolo is the college\u2019s Asahi Glass Chair in Chemical Engineering and Lloyd and Jane Austin Presidential Professor. He is also the director of the college\u2019s Online Master of Science in Sustainability and the Materials Science and Engineering doctoral program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clathrate hydrates are crystalline structures formed at the bottom of seafloors, created by water molecules trapping methane, carbon dioxide or other molecules. While these materials are underutilized in technology, a University of Oklahoma researcher is helping scientists better understand them through a trailblazing study. Alberto Striolo, a professor in OU\u2019s Gallogly College of Engineering, co-authored [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,38,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234546","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=234546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}