In a paper published this week in PNAS, researchers at the University of Amsterdam’s Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences and the Amsterdam Center for Multiscale Modeling provide atomistic insight in the formation of methane hydrates. On the basis of molecular dynamics simulations they explain how selection between competing methane hydrate polymorphs occurs, and how this might be generalized to other hydrates and molecular crystal formation.
Click here for original story, Molecular dynamics simulation sheds new light on methane hydrate formation
Source: Phys.org