[HTML][HTML] Water structure, properties and some applications–A review

GM Kontogeorgis, A Holster, N Kottaki… - … and Thermal Analysis, 2022 - Elsevier
Water is a fascinating substance with lots of properties not encountered in other compounds.
It has been suggested that making use of water's “anomalous” properties can lead to …

Light, water, and melatonin: the synergistic regulation of phase separation in dementia

D Loh, RJ Reiter - International journal of molecular sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
The swift rise in acceptance of molecular principles defining phase separation by a broad
array of scientific disciplines is shadowed by increasing discoveries linking phase …

Nature of cations critically affects water at the negatively charged silica interface

J Hunger, J Schaefer, P Ober, T Seki… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Understanding the collective behavior of ions at charged surfaces is of paramount
importance for geological and electrochemical processes. Ions screen the surface charge …

Structural characteristics of low-density environments in liquid water

AV Muthachikavil, GM Kontogeorgis, X Liang, Q Lei… - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
The existence of two structural forms in liquid water has been a point of discussion for a long
time. A phase transition between these two forms of liquid water has been proposed based …

The impact of secondary channels on the wetting properties of interconnected hydrophobic nanopores

G Paulo, A Gubbiotti, Y Grosu, S Meloni… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Pores in nanoporous materials can be interconnected in different ways; preliminary
evidence exists that connecting channels can affect the overall hydrophobicity of the …

Hydrogen-bond dynamics and water structure in aqueous ethylene glycol solution via two-dimensional Raman correlation spectroscopy

B Yang, P Ren, L Xing, C Sun… - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The hydrogen-bond (H-bond) dynamics and water structural transitions in aqueous ethylene
glycol (EG) solution were investigated on the basis of concentration-and temperature …

Multiple insights call for revision of modern thermodynamic models to account for structural fluctuations in water

E Tsochantaris, AV Muthachikavil, B Peng… - AIChE …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Modern thermodynamic models incorporate the concept of association (hydrogen bonding)
and they can describe very satisfactorily many properties of water containing mixtures. They …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of infrared spectroscopic methods for the study of structural properties of liquid alcohols

E Drougkas, M Bache, X Liang, N von Solms… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
This work aims to evaluate the infrared spectroscopic methods for the study of the structural
properties of liquid alcohols–specifically how many alcohol molecules and how many …

Exploring the Molecular Dynamics of a Lipid-A Vesicle at the Atom Level: Morphology and Permeation Mechanism

DES Santos, A De Nicola, VF Dos Santos… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Lipid-A was previously shown to spontaneously aggregate into a vesicle via the hybrid
particle field approach. We assess the validity of the proposed vesiculation mechanism by …

[HTML][HTML] Applying SAFT-type models for the anomalous properties of water: Successes and challenges

E Tsochantaris, X Liang, GM Kontogeorgis - Fluid Phase Equilibria, 2023 - Elsevier
Water is the most important, but at the same time the most anomalous substance on earth.
Due to its anomalies, it is a challenge even for advanced equations of state like PC-SAFT …