Current research:

 

 

“Water Self-Diffusion in Polycrystalline Ice Doped with SO₂ and HCl: Grain Boundary Premelting in the Presence of Ionic and Molecular Impurities”, J.  Chem. Phys., will be submitted in Jan. 2008.

 

“Glass Transition in Doped Amorphous Solid Water: Spatial Extent of Perturbations to Glass Transition Properties Induced by Impurities”, Stephanie A. McCartney, Haiping Lu, and Vlad Sadtchenko,  J.  Chem. Phys, submitted (2007).

 

“Temperature Dependence of Water Self-Diffusivity in Pure Polycrystalline Ice and in Ice Doped with HCl”, Stephanie A. McCartney, Haiping Lu and Vlad Sadtchenko, J. Chem. Phys, submitted (2007)  PDF

 

“Response to “Comment on `Glass transition in pure and doped amorphous solid: An ultrafast microcalorimetry study' [J. Chem. Phys. 125, 094501 (2006)]”, Vlad Sadtchenko, Haiping Lu, and S. McCartney, J. Chem. Phys. 127, 157102 (2007)

 

“Fast Thermal Desorption Spectroscopy Study of H/D Isotopic Exchange Reaction in Polycrystalline Ice near Its Melting Point”, Haiping Lu, Stephanie A. McCartney, and Vlad Sadtchenko,  J. Chem. Phys. 127, 184701 (2007) PDF

 

“Fast Thermal Desorption Spectroscopy and Ultrafast Microcalorimetry: New Tools to Uncover Mysteries of Ice”, Vlad  Sadtchenko in "Physics and Chemistry of Ice", Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK (2007).

 

“Fast Thermal Desorption Spectroscopy Study of Morphology and Vaporization Kinetics of Polycrystalline Ice Films”, Haiping Lu, Stephanie A. McCartney, M. Chonde, D. Smyla, and Vlad Sadtchenko, J. Chem. Phys. 125, 044709 (2006) PDF

 

“Glass Transition in Pure and Doped Amorphous Solid Water: an Ultrafast Microcalorimetry Study”, M. Brindza, M. Chonde, and Vlad Sadtchenko, J. Chem. Phys. 125, 094501(2006) PDF

 

“The Vaporization Rate of Ice at Temperatures near Its Melting Point”, Vlad Sadtchenko, M. Brindza, M. Chonde, B. Palmore, R. Eom., J. Chem. Phys. 121, 11980 (2004)  

 

Previous studies:

 

 

P. Conrad, George E. Ewing, and Vlad Sadtchenko, “Ice Nucleation of BaF₂ surface”, J. Chem. Phys.,2005, 122 (6), 064709.

 

George E. Ewing, Michelle Foster, Will Cantrell and Vlad Sadtchenko; “Thin film water on insulator surfaces”, Water in Confined Geometries, eds. V. Buch and J.P. Devlin, Springer-Verlag (2003).

 

V. Sadtchenko and G.E. Ewing, “A new approach to the study of interfacial melting of ice: infrared spectroscopy”; Can. J. Phys. 2003, 81(1-2): 333.

 

Sadtchenko, V.; Ewing, G. E.; Nuts D. R.; Stone A., “Instability of Ice Films”, Langmuir 2002, 18, 4632

 

Sadtchenko, V.; Ewing, G. E., “Interfacial Melting of Thin Ice Films: An Infrared Study”, J. Chem. Phys., 2002, 116, 4686.

 

Sadtchenko, V.; Conrad, P.; Ewing, G. E., “H₂O adsorption on BaF₂ (111) at ambient conditions”,  J. Chem. Phys.,2002, 116, 4293.

 

Sadtchenko, V.; Giese, C. F.; Gentry W. R. “Interaction of Hydrogen Chloride with Thin Ice Films: The Effect of Ice Morphology and Evidence for Unique Surface Species on Crystalline Vapor-Deposited Ice”, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2000, 104, 9421.

 

Sadtchenko, V.; Knutsen, K.; Giese, C. F.; Gentry W. R., “Interactions of CCl4 with Thin D2O Amorphous Ice Films. 2. Variation of Desorption Kinetics with Ice Preparation Conditions and Evidence for Distinct Structures of Low-Density Amorphous Ice”, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2000, 104, 4894.

 

Sadtchenko, V.; Knutsen, K.; Giese, C. F.; Gentry W. R., “Interactions of CCl4 with Thin D2O Amorphous Ice Films, Part I: A Nanoscale Probe of Ice Morphology”, J. Phys. Chem. B,  2000, 104, 2511.

 

 

Selected Presentations:

 

“Fast thermal desorption spectroscopy and microcalorimetry-new tools to uncover mysteries of ice”,  Vlad Sadtchenko, 11^th International conference on Physics and Chemistry of Ice, Bremenharven, Germany,  July 2006,

 

“Grain boundary premelting in polycrystalline ice”, S. McCarthy, H. Lu, and Vlad Sadtchenko, Gordon Research Conference- Water and Aqueous Solutions, July 2006, Plymouth, NH

 

“Glass transition in low density amorphous solid water”, S. McCartney, H. Lu, and Vlad Sadtchenko, Gordon Research Conference-Water and Aqueous Solutions, Plymouth, NH, July 2006.

 

“Studies of dynamics in thin polycrystalline D₂O  and H₂O ice films by TPD/TOF mass spectrometry and Ultrafast Microcalorimetry at temperatures near ice melting point”, Vlad Sadtchenko, Telluride Research Symposium – Ice, Icy Surfaces, and Icy Particles,  Telluride, CO, July 2004.

 

“Dynamics in rapidly desorbing ice films”, Vlad Sadtchenko and M. Brindza, Meeting of American Physical Society, Montreal, Canada, March 2004.

 

“First Infrared Study of Interfacial Melting of Ice”, Vlad Sadtchenko and George Ewing, 10^th  International Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Ice, St. John's, Canada , July 2002.