X-Message-Number: 20098 From: "david luo" <> Subject: HELP: on the microwave effect during cryopreservation Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 17:04:53 -0400 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C25F35.81FF1AC0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="gb2312" I am a graduate student, now I'm working on a project about the microwave enhancement of vitrification during cryopreservation. Actually the references in this area are few, so I need some help. I read one paper in which author claimed that microwave at 2.45 GHz are specifically absorbed to break the pentamer microclusters of water molecules into monomers, so the nucleation centres of ice-crystal formation will be reduced. This theory means pentamer structure of water molecule clusters is the nucleation centers and the the breaking down of this structure will make it possible to vitrify water. But I can hardly find some other papers supporting this theory, can any one give me some advices? Thanks a lot. ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C25F35.81FF1AC0 Content-Type: text/html; [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20098