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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.

Table of 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.

Author/Creator:

Meng, Sheng

Contributors:

Wang, En-Ge, 1957-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Water: basic science [by Meng, S.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Water [by Meng, S.] (Singapore : Springer,c2023 — ISBN 9789819915408)

Subjects:

Water

Hydrology

water (inorganic material)

Earth (Planet)

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 29, 2023).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 pages)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

QD169.W3 M464 2023eb

ISBNs:

9789819915415 (electronic bk.)
9819915414 (electronic bk.)
9819915406 [Invalid]
9789819915408 [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1007/978-981-99-1541-5

OCLC Numbers:

1385452841