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A journey through water : a scientific exploration of the most anomalous liquid on earth / Authored by Jestin Baby Mandumpal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mandumpal, Jestin Baby, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boiling-points.
- Matter--Properties.
- Matter.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (300 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Sharjah, United Arab Emirates : Bentham Science Publishers, 2017.
- Summary:
- A Journey Through Water: A Scientific Exploration of The Most Anomalous Liquid on Earth is a monograph about water at molecular level. The monograph explores how its peculiar properties are related to its molecular structure. Readers are introduced to water through information about water in a wider perspective properties of its liquid state experimental techniques for molecular level investigations of liquid water and computer simulation techniques. This is followed by chapters explaining the structural properties and principal applications of various phases of water (water as a normal liquid supercooled water ice and supercritical water). Key features of this reference include: - easy to understand sequential and structured text making this reference ideal for readers with limited scientific knowledge of water physics - a list of institutions where water research is promoted in larger scales - 130 figures which supplement the text - an explanation of ten principal anomalies of water and associated theories The book is an excellent resource for novice researchers (physicists chemists and chemical engineers) working on water and laymen who are interested in furthering their understanding of this precious liquid.
- Contents:
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- PREFACE
- Water, The Centre of Life
- INTRODUCTION
- Water Crisis
- POLITICS OF WATER
- SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF WATER
- WATER AND ENVIRONMENT
- WATER FROM BIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
- WATER FROM TECHNOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
- COMPUTER MODELLING
- STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK
- CONFLICT OF INTEREST
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- A Snapshot of Liquid State
- INTERMOLECULAR FORCES
- THEORIES OF LIQUID STRUCTURE
- METASTABLE WATER
- The Transition from Supercooled Liquid to Glassy State
- Strong and Fragile Liquids
- Entropic Considerations
- Theories of Low Temperature Liquids
- Adam−Gibbs Theory
- Energy Landscape Theory
- Mode Coupling Theory (MCT)
- Good Glass Formers
- CONCLUDING REMARKS
- Experimental Tools for Microanalysis of Water
- SCATTERING EXPERIMENTS
- X−ray Scattering
- Neutron Diffraction Experiments
- Electron Scattering
- X−ray, Neutron and Electron Diffraction Methods
- SPECTROSCOPIC TECHNIQUES
- Infra−Red Spectroscopy (IR)
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy
- Raman Spectroscopy
- Dielectric Relaxation Spectrometry
- Other Spectroscopic Techniques
- ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
- Scanning Electron Microscopy
- Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)
- DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY (DSC)
- CAPILLARY TUBE TECHNIQUES
- GLASSY WATER &
- HYPERQUENCHING
- WATER IN CONFINEMENT
- The Fundamentals of Molecular Simulations
- THE PROTOCOL OF MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS
- FUNDAMENTALS OF MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS
- Ensembles
- Periodic Boundary Conditions
- Forcefields
- Modelling Intermolecular Interactions of Atoms and Molecules
- Molecular Dynamics
- Stochastic Simulations
- Forcefields for the Simulation of Water.
- FUNDAMENTALS OF QUANTUM CHEMISTRY
- Basis Sets
- Roothan− Hall−Hartree−Fock Approach
- Semi Empirical Methods
- Density Functional Theory
- Water Between Its Freezing and Boiling Points
- WATER STRUCTURE
- Electronic Structure
- Hydrogen Bonds in Water: A Closer Look
- The Dynamics of Hydrogen Bonds
- Thermodynamics of Hydrogen Bonds in Water
- Supercooled &
- Glassy Water
- STRUCTURE OF SUPERCOOLED WATER
- WATER BELOW SUPERCOOLING TEMPERATURE
- How Diffusive Supercooled Water is?
- Relaxation Times
- HOW SUPERCOOLING CAN BE ACHIEVED?
- GLASSY WATER
- GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE OF WATER
- Ice, The Crystalline Phase of Water
- ICE IN VARIOUS FORMS
- Ih, the Most Common Type of Ice
- Bernal−Fowler Rules
- Defects in the Ice
- Molecular Structure of Ice Polymorphs
- MODELS FOR ICE SIMULATION
- PROPERTIES OF ICE
- Water Above its Boiling Point
- APPLICATIONS OF SUPER CRITICAL WATER
- PROPERTIES OF SUPER CRITICAL WATER
- EXPERIMENTS AND SIMULATIONS ON SUPER CRITICAL WATER
- WATER CLUSTERS
- Internal Dynamics of Water Clusters
- Interatomic Distance and Angle
- Impact of Density on Water Clusters
- A Brief Review of Water Anomalies
- WATER AS LIQUID
- HIGH ENERGY OF DISSOCIATION
- DENSER LIQUID PHASE
- THERMODYNAMIC SINGULARITIES
- Density Minimum
- Thermal Conductivity Maximum
- Thermal Conductivity Minimum
- Pressure Anomaly
- DIFFUSION
- Breakdown of Stoke−Einstein Relationship.
- THEORETICAL INTERPRETATION FOR THE ANOMALIES IN SUPERCOOLED WATER
- Stability−Limit Conjecture
- Liquid−Liquid Critical Point Theory
- Singularity Free Hypothesis
- Critical Point Free Hypothesis
- DIVERGENCE OF HYDROGEN BOND LIFETIMES
- CORRELATION BETWEEN STRUCTURAL, KINETIC &
- THERMODYNAMIC ANOMALIES
- HYDROPHOBIC HYDRATION
- A Journey Through Water - A Review
- VARIOUS STAGES OF THE JOURNEY
- Water, the Centre of Life
- Fundamentals of Molecular Simulations
- Water Between Its Boiling Point and Freezing Point
- Supercooled and Glassy Water
- Ice, the Crystalline Phase of Water
- Water above Its Boiling Point
- A Quest for a Unified Theory of Water
- MOLECULAR INVESTIGATIONS IN WIDER PERSPECTIVE
- FINAL WORD
- REFERENCES
- Glossary
- SUBJECT INDEX.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 20, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 9781681084237
- 1681084236
- OCLC:
- 975223307
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