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Water is a complex structured liquid of hydrogen-bonded molecules that displays a surprising array of unusual properties, also known as water anomalies, the most famous being the density maximum at about $4^\circ$C. The origin of these…

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In this Letter, we present a simple model of aqueous interfacial molecular structure and we use this model to isolate the effects of hydrogen bonding on the dielectric properties of the liquid water-vapor interface. By comparing this model…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-26 Sucheol Shin , Adam P. Willard

Fluid polyamorphism, the existence of multiple amorphous fluid states in a single-component system, has been observed or predicted in a variety of substances. A remarkable example of this phenomenon is the fluid-fluid phase transition in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-09-21 Nathaniel R. Fried , Thomas J. Longo , Mikhail A. Anisimov

There are at least three fundamental states of matter, depending upon temperature and pressure: gas, liquid, and solid (crystal). These states are separated by first-order phase transitions between them. In both gas and liquid phases the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-07-03 Hajime Tanaka

Water is abundantly present in the Universe. It is the main component of interstellar ice mantles and a key ingredient for life. Water in space is mainly formed through surface reactions. Three formation routes have been proposed in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 H. M. Cuppen , S. Ioppolo , C. Romanzin , H. Linnartz

Supercooled water exhibits remarkably slow dynamics similar to the behavior observed for various glass-forming liquids. The local order of tetrahedral structures due to hydrogen-bonds (H-bonds) increases with decreasing temperature. Thus,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-06-26 Takuma Kikutsuji , Kang Kim , Nobuyuki Matubayasi

The supra-molecular structure of a liquid is strongly connected to its dynamics which in turn controls macroscopic properties such as viscosity. Consequently, detailed knowledge about how this structure changes with temperature is essential…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-05 Jan Philipp Gabriel , Robin Horstmann , Martin Tress

The object of this study is the kinetic process of solid-liquid first-order phase transition - melting of carbon dioxide CS-I hydrate with various cavity occupation ratios. The work was done within a framework of study on the local…

This article gives an overview of recent theoretical and experimental findings concerning the hydrodynamic interaction between liquid-embedded particles in various confined geometries. A simple unifying description emerges, which accounts…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-04-12 Haim Diamant

It has been extensively demonstrated through first principles quantum mechanics calculations that water exhibits strong hydrogen bond cooperativity. Classical molecular simulation and statistical mechanics methods typically assume pairwise…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-05-24 Bennett D. Marshall

A site-site interaction model is proposed for water in two-dimension, as an alternative to the traditional Mercedes-Benz model. In MB model, water molecules are modeled as 2-dimensional Lennard-Jones disks with three hydrogen bonding arms…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-06-02 Tangi Baré , Maxime Besserve , Tomaz Urbic , Aurélien Perera

Although well-researched as a prototype Hamiltonian for strongly interacting quantum systems, the Bose-Hubbard model has not so far been explored as a fluid system with waterlike anomalies. In this work we show that this model supports, in…

Water evaporation is critically important for hydrogels in open-air applications, but theoretically modeling is difficult due to the complicated intermolecular interactions and sustained deformation. In this work, we construct a simplified…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-28 Zehua Yu , Yongshun Ren , Kang Liu

Water is a ubiquitous liquid with unique physico-chemical properties, whose nature has shaped our planet and life as we know it. Water in restricted geometries has different properties than in bulk. Confinement can prevent low-temperature…

The unique structural properties of interfacial water are at the heart of a vast range of important processes in electrochemistry, climate science, and biophysics. At interfaces, water molecules exhibit preferential orientations and an…

A sequential of concepts developed in last decade has enabled a resolution to multiple anomalies of water ice and its low-dimensionality, particularly. Developed concepts include the coupled hydrogen bond oscillator pair, segmental specific…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-06-17 Chang Q Sun

We use molecular dynamics computer simulations and nuclear magnetic resonance experiments to investigate the dynamics of water at interfaces of molecular roughness and low mobility. We find that, when approaching such interfaces, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-07-22 Markus Rosenstihl , Kerstin Kämpf , Felix Klameth , Matthias Sattig , Michael Vogel

We present in this paper a computational approach based on molecular dynamics simulations and graph theory to characterize the structure of liquid water considering not only the local structural arrangement within the first (or second)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-10-27 Chiara Faccio , Michele Benzi , Laura Zanetti-Polzi , Isabella Daidone

A direct measure of hydrogen bonding in water under conditions ranging from the normal state to the supercritical regime is derived from the Compton scattering of inelastically-scattered X-rays. First, we show that a measure of the number…

While the interactions between water molecules are dominated by strongly directional hydrogen bonds (HBs), it was recently proposed that relatively weak, isotropic van der Waals (vdW) forces are essential for understanding the properties of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-07-07 Tobias Morawietz , Andreas Singraber , Christoph Dellago , Jörg Behler