Recrystallization of freezable bound water in aqueous solutions of medium concentration
Zhao Lishan1, 2, Pan Liqing1, Ji Ailing2, Cao Zexian2, Wang Qiang2, †,
       

(a) Glass transition temperature, Tg, against the mass fraction of water, Xaqu, for aqueous ZnCl2 solutions obtained under conventional cooling/heating process (circle). In those solutions with an , ice precipitation occurs first in the cooling process. The freeze-concentrated phases then vitrify at a constant and the corresponding can be directly read from the monotonous part of the Tg versus Xaqu curve at the point where . (b) Mass-normalized heat flow change at glass transition, δTg, as a function of Xaqu for aqueous ZnCl2 solutions. The red up triangle in panels (a) and (b) indicates the data point measured in the second round of protocol 2 for the sample with Xaqu = 0.61. (c) Raman spectra measured at 183 K for pure ice (blue dotted line), the solution with Xaqu = 0.49 (black dashed line), and the solution with Xaqu = 0.61 after recrystallization of water (red solid line). The experimental error, approximately 0.5% for Tg and approximately 10% for δTg, arises mainly from in calibrating furnace temperature for the former and from extrapolating the heat flow curve at two sides of Tg for the letter. Error bars are omitted when they are smaller than the symbol size.