Manipulating trapped air bubbles in ice for message storage in cold regions

IF 6.9 2区综合性期刊 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Cell Reports Physical Science Pub Date : 2025-06-01 DOI:10.1016/j.xcrp.2025.102622

Keke Shao, Xuan Zhang, Mengjie Song, Jun Shen, Lizhen Huang, Tianzhuo Zhan, Haidong Wang, Bo You, Libor Pekař, Dong Rip Kim, Christopher Y.H. Chao, Long Zhang

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Summary

Message storage using documents and telecommunications encounters high energy consumption and a short life cycle in cold regions. Easily available low temperature and water have created the history-recording glaciers. Inspired by the naturally occurring bubbles in glaciers, we elucidate the underlying physics governing them and develop an ice-based message storage method. The formation process of trapped air bubbles is controlled by the heat and mass transfer during freezing. We identify four ice regions based on the bubbles' distribution and determine the critical freezing rate between the bubble and clear ice regions at 2.87 μm/s. Manipulating the bubble layer by varying the freezing rate successfully utilizes Morse, binary, and ternary codes to store messages. These findings reveal the underlying physics of the trapped air bubble formations, and the intermittent growth of bubble layers also provides the potential for incorporating artificial intelligence into material solidification, glacier analysis, and gas exploration.

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在寒冷地区利用冰中被困住的气泡来储存信息

摘要在寒冷地区，利用文档和电信进行信息存储存在能耗高、生命周期短的问题。容易获得的低温和水创造了记录历史的冰川。受冰川中自然产生的气泡的启发，我们阐明了控制它们的潜在物理原理，并开发了一种基于冰的信息存储方法。截留气泡的形成过程受冻结过程中的传热传质控制。根据气泡的分布确定了4个冰区，并确定了气泡与透明冰区之间的临界冻结速率为2.87 μm/s。通过改变冻结率来操纵气泡层，成功地利用莫尔斯码、二进制码和三进制码来存储信息。这些发现揭示了被困气泡形成的潜在物理特性，气泡层的间歇性增长也为将人工智能应用于材料凝固、冰川分析和天然气勘探提供了潜力。

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Cell Reports Physical Science Energy-Energy (all)

CiteScore

11.40

自引率

2.20%

发文量

388

审稿时长

62 days

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