The attribute of water : single notion, multiple myths / Chang Q. Sun, Yi Sun.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sun, Chang Q., author.

Sun, Yi, author.

Series:

Springer series in chemical physics ; v. 113.

Springer series in chemical physics ; volume 113

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 494 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer, 2016.

Summary:

This book features the latest advances and future trends in water science and technology. It also discusses the scientific popularization and quantitative resolution of a variety of mysterious properties of water and ice from the perspective of hydrogen-bond cooperativity in response to stimuli such as chemical contamination, electrification, magnetification, mechanical compression, molecular undercoordination, and thermal excitation. Anomalies include the floating of ice, the Hofmeister effect in solutions, regelation of ice, slipperiness of ice, water's tough skin, the Mpemba paradox, and the floating bridge. It also addresses the superfluidity of microchannels, hydrogen bond potentials, nanodroplet and bubble thermodynamics, quasisolidity and supersolidity, controlling superhydrophobicity-superhydrophilicity transition, and high-pressure ice formation. The target audience for this book includes students, senior scholars, engineers and practitioners in the area of physical chemistry, biology, as well as aqueous and colloid solutions.

Contents:

Wonders of Water

Water Structure

O:H-O Bond Cooperativity

Phase Diagram: Bonding Dynamics

O:H-O Bond Asymmetrical Potentials

Mechanical Compression

Thermal Excitation

Molecular Undercoordination: Supersolidity

Superlubricity of Ice

Water Supersolid Skin

Mpemba Paradox

Aqueous Solution Point Controllers

Hydration Shells versus Water Skin

Aqueous Solution Phase Transition

Water Floating Bridge

Miscellaneous Issues

Approaching Strategies

Laws for Water.

Notes:

Errata inserted.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9811001782

9789811001789

OCLC:

927376296