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Water : Basic Science / by Sheng Meng, Enge Wang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meng, Sheng, author.
- Wang, Enge, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Atomic structure.
- Molecular structure.
- Surfaces (Physics).
- Microclusters.
- Condensed matter.
- Quantum theory.
- Quantum statistics.
- Atomic and Molecular Structure and Properties.
- Surface and Interface and Thin Film.
- Atomic and Molecular Clusters.
- Phase Transition and Critical Phenomena.
- Atom and Molecule Optics and Interferometry.
- Quantum Gases and Condensates.
- Local Subjects:
- Atomic and Molecular Structure and Properties.
- Surface and Interface and Thin Film.
- Atomic and Molecular Clusters.
- Phase Transition and Critical Phenomena.
- Atom and Molecule Optics and Interferometry.
- Quantum Gases and Condensates.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (338 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2023.
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2023.
- Summary:
- This book highlights the fundamentals for understanding the essential problems and latest progresses in basic water science. Water is the most abundant, fundamental and important matter in nature. Arguably it is also the material that human beings study the most but misunderstand the most. Compared with the environmental science and engineering research activities on water resources, water pollution and water usage closely related to social problems at the macro level, basic scientific research on water at the molecular level has just emerged, the impact of which is not fully recognized yet. This book is devoted to introducing some important advances in the field of basic water science in past decades, with a particular emphasis on recent results on water and the interactions between water and solid surfaces at the molecular level. Starting from introducing concepts and popular theoretical and experimental methods for basic water research, this book mainly focuses on the atomic composition, electronic structure, and physicochemical properties of water molecules, water clusters and water layers (including surface water layers and water surface layers), rules for water adsorption on metals, oxides, and other typical solid surfaces such as salt, as well as the microscopic processes and mechanisms of water diffusion, wetting, decomposition and phase transformations under a variety of conditions. It is a good reference book for students and researchers in water-related science.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Introduction: understanding the structure and function of water on the molecular scale
- Chapter 2 Theoretical methods
- Chapter 3 Experimental methods
- Chapter 4 Water molecules, small clusters and bulk water
- Chapter 5 Experimental study of the interactions between water and surface
- Chapter 6 Adsorption of water on Pt (111) surface
- Chapter 7 General law of water adsorption on metal surfaces
- Chapter 8 Adsorption of water on non-metallic surfaces
- Chapter 9 Macroscopic and microscopic surface wetting
- Chapter 10 Hydrated ions on the surface
- Chapter 11 Microscopic processes of salt dissolution and nucleation
- Chapter XII Surface of ice
- Chapter 13 Quantum behaviors of H in water
- Chapter 14 Phase transitions in confined water. .
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 981-9915-41-4
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