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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.
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.
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.
Yi Sun, received her BSc degree in Physics at University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2008, her M.A. in Economics
and PhD degree in Public Policy from the University of Chicago in
2016. Besides the current project, she has been devoted to the
electron spectrometrics of binding energy shift of graphene,
Ni/TiO2 and Pt/CNT nanocrystals and interfaces and the
superhydrophilicity, superfluidity, superlubricity, and
supersolidity at the nanometric contacts from the perspective of
undercoordination induced quantum entrapment and polarization. She
received the Commonwealth Edison/Bristow Award in Physics and was
named a Chancellor’s Scholar at UIUC in 2008.
Chang Q Sun, FRSC, FInstP, received his BSc degree in 1982 from
Wuhan University of Science and Technology and an MSc degree in
1987 from Tianjin University, China and served on its faculty until
1992. He earned his PhD in Surface Physics at Murdoch University,
Australia in 1996. DrSun has focused on the advancement of
Coordination Bond and Electronic Engineering and created a set of
theoretical, numerical, and experimental strategies with multiple
breakthroughs: 1) hydrogen-bond cooperative relaxation dynamics and
H2O anomalies; 2) bond-band-barrier (3B) correlation for C, N, O
chemisorption 3B dynamics and heterocoordination chemistry
including impurities and interfaces; 3) bond-order-length-strength
(BOLS) correlation for the undercoordination physics including
point defects, liquid and solid skins, and nanosolids of various
shapes; 4) nonbonding electron polarization (NEP) at sites of edges
and apexes; 5) local-bond-average (LBA) approach for solid
meso-mechano-thermo dynamics; 6) BOLS-TB algorithm and 7)
coordination-resolved electron spectrometrics; 8) phonon
spectrometrics of multifield bonding dynamics; 9) STM/S/VLEED
quantification of four-stage Cu3O2 bonding kinetics; and 10)
functional materials devise, etc.
His contribution has been featured in two monographs, the present
The Attribute of Water and the Relaxation of the Chemical Bond
(Springer, 2014; Chinese edition published by High Education Press,
Beijing, 2015), and multiple treatises published in Friction
(2015), Chemical Reviews (2015; 2012), Coordination Chemistry
Reviews (2015), Progress in Solid State Chemistry (2015; 2007;
2006), Surface Science Reports (2013), Progress in Materials
Science (2009; 2003), Energy and Environment Science (2011),
Science in China (2012), Nanoscale (2010), etc. Breakthroughs in
water research have been featured by numerous media such as Times,
The Telegraph, Daily Mails, Physics Today, IOP News, Chemical
World, Chem Views, Nature Chemistry, New Scientist, etc.
Dr Sun was conferred the First Laureate of the 25th Khwarizmi
International Science Award in 2012 and the Inaugural Nanyang Award
of Research in 2005, and finalist of Singapore
Presidential/National Science Award in 2012 and 2003. He is
currently on the Editorial Advisory Board for multiple scientific
journals.
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