Raman Study of the Annealing Effect of Low-Density Glassy Waters

Abstract

We make three kinds of low density glassy waters, low-density amorphous ice (LDA), amorphous solid water (ASW) and hyperquenched glassy water (HGW), and examine the changes in their Raman spectra of OH-stretching vibrational regions by annealing at 1 bar. The irreversible change in Raman profile for LDA is observed above its calorimetric glass transition temperature (T_g) of ∼130 K below 144 K. The degree of the change in Raman spectra of LDA at the annealing temperature appears to be different from those for ASW and HGW. These results suggest a possibility that the modification in the hydrogen-bonded network of LDA during the annealing occurs above the calorimetric T_g.