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New results on water in bulk, nanoconfined, and biological environments. (English) Zbl 1149.82001

Abe, Sumiyoshi (ed.) et al., Complexity, metastability, and nonextensivity. An international conference CTNEXT 07, Catania, Italy, 1–5 July 2007. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics (AIP) (ISBN 978-0-7354-0481-6/hbk). AIP Conference Proceedings 965, 193-217 (2007).
Summary: Water is perhaps the most ubiquitous, and the most essential, of any molecule on earth. Despite decades of research, however, water’s puzzling properties are not understood and 63 anomalies that distinguish water from other liquids remain unsolved. We present evidence from experiments and computer simulations supporting the hypothesis that water displays polyamorphism, i.e., water separates into two distinct liquid phases. This concept of a new liquid-liquid critical point is finding application to other liquids as well as water, such as silicon and silica. We also discuss related puzzles, such as the mysterious behavior of water near a biomolecule.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1140.82006].

MSC:

82-05 Experimental work for problems pertaining to statistical mechanics
82B26 Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics
82B27 Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics
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