Water in Confining Geometries

by V. Buch (Editor), J.P. Devlin (Editor)

Overview

The evolution of the physical/ chemical sciences towards understanding the behavior of matter at the molecular level has been accompanied by a rapid increase in studies of the properties and functioning of confined water; that is, water in small clusters and nanoparticles or confined to solid/liquid thin films, surfaces and interfaces. These studies represent a convergence of interests and methodologies. That is, much emerging science, both basic and applied, depends on an understanding of confined water for significant advances; and the technical ability to gain that understanding has evolved only during the past decade or two. Firm concepts of the behavior of water in a variety of confining geometries are basic to advances in molecular biology, weather phenomena, atmospheric chemistry, interstellar and interplanetary physics and chemistry; as weIl as to the complete understanding of properties of macroscopic amounts of water and water-solute systems. In recognition of the growing importance of studies of confined water, a Telluride (Colorado) workshop was convened in August of 2000. This was an exceptionally strong 5-day conference with numerous informative talks by leading scientists on both basic and applied aspects of the subject. Lively discussions left the participants spent.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540004110
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	06/04/2003
Series:	Springer Series in Cluster Physics
Edition description:	2003
Pages:	472
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

I Water Clusters.- 1 Nature of Many-Body Forces in Water Clusters and Bulk.- 2 Thermochemistry and Kinetics of Evaporation and Condensation for Small Water Clusters.- 3 Vibrational Spectroscopy and Reactions of Water Clusters.- 4 Solvent Effects of Individual Water Molecules.- 5 Solvation Effects on the Properties and Reactivities of Ionic and Neutral Water Clusters.- II Water at Interfaces.- 6 Properties of Water Clusters on a Graphite Sheet.- 7 Phase Equilibria and Transitions of Confined Systems in Hydrophobic and Aqueous Environments.- 8 Thin Film Water on Insulator Surfaces.- 9 Protein Hydration Water.- 10 Computational Studies of Liquid Water Interfaces.- 11 Water Confined at the Liquid-Air Interface.- III Atmospheric and Astrophysical Water and Ice.- 12 Physical Properties and Atmospheric Reactivity of Aqueous Sea Salt Micro-Aerosols.- 13 Interactions and Phohemistry of Small Molecules on Ice Surfaces: From Atmospheric Chemistry to Astrophysics.- IV Amorphous Solid Water (ASW) Films.- 14 Molecular Beam Studies of Nanoscale Films of Amorphous Solid Water.- 15 Microporous Amorphous Water Ice Thin Films: Properties and Their Astronomical Implications.- V Ice Particles.- 16 Nucleation of Ice in Large Water Clusters: Experiment and Simulation.- 17 Ice Nanoparticles and Ice Adsorbate Interactions: FTIR Spectroscopy and Computer Simulations.