Comment on “Maxima in the thermodynamic response and correlation functions of deeply supercooled water”

Frederic Caupin (1) , Vincent Holten (1) , Chen Qiu (2) , Emmanuel Guillerm (1) , Max Wilke (3) , Martin Frenz (2) , José Teixeira (4) , Alan K. Soper (5)

1 ILM - Institut Lumière Matière [Villeurbanne]
2 University of Bern
3 University of Potsdam = Universität Potsdam
4 LLB - UMR 12 - Laboratoire Léon Brillouin
5 ISIS - ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

Kim et al. recently measured the structure factor of deeply supercooled water droplets (Reports, 22 December 2017, p. 1589). We raise several concerns about their data analysis and interpretation. In our opinion, the reported data do not lead to clear conclusions about the origins of water’s anomalies.

Domains: Physics [physics]

Frederic Caupin, Vincent Holten, Chen Qiu, Emmanuel Guillerm, Max Wilke, et al.. Comment on “Maxima in the thermodynamic response and correlation functions of deeply supercooled water”. Science, 2018, 360 (6390), pp.eaat 1634. ⟨10.1126/science.aat1634⟩. ⟨cea-01886071⟩