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The Attribute of Water

Single Notion, Multiple Myths

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Authors:
  1. Chang Q Sun

    1. Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Singapore, Singapore

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  2. Yi Sun

    1. China Jiliang University, Hangzhou, China

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  • Features the latest progress and future trends in water science and technology
  • Narrates the historical background and the quantitative resolution of multiple mysteries
  • Reinforces principles of hydrogen bond adaptivity, cooperativity, recoverability, and sensitivity
  • Correlates anomalies of water and ice to the O:H-O bond–electron–phonon relaxation dynamics
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Springer Series in Chemical Physics (CHEMICAL, volume 113)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxi
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  2. Wonders of Water

    • Chang Q. Sun, Yi Sun
    Pages 1-24

  3. Water Structure

    • Chang Q. Sun, Yi Sun
    Pages 25-48

  4. O:H–O Bond Cooperativity

    • Chang Q. Sun, Yi Sun
    Pages 49-80

  5. Phase Diagram: Bonding Dynamics

    • Chang Q. Sun, Yi Sun
    Pages 81-101

  6. O:H–O Bond Asymmetrical Potentials

    • Chang Q. Sun, Yi Sun
    Pages 103-123

  7. Mechanical Compression

    • Chang Q. Sun, Yi Sun
    Pages 125-146

  8. Thermal Excitation

    • Chang Q. Sun, Yi Sun
    Pages 147-173

  9. Molecular Undercoordination: Supersolidity

    • Chang Q. Sun, Yi Sun
    Pages 175-202

  10. Superlubricity of Ice

    • Chang Q. Sun, Yi Sun
    Pages 203-243

  11. Water Supersolid Skin

    • Chang Q. Sun, Yi Sun
    Pages 245-279

  12. Mpemba Paradox

    • Chang Q. Sun, Yi Sun
    Pages 281-304

  13. Aqueous Solutions: Quantum Specification

    • Chang Q. Sun, Yi Sun
    Pages 305-363

  14. Hydration Shells and Water Skin

    • Chang Q. Sun, Yi Sun
    Pages 365-373

  15. Aqueous Solution Phase Transition

    • Chang Q. Sun, Yi Sun
    Pages 375-391

  16. Electrofreezing and Water Bridging

    • Chang Q. Sun, Yi Sun
    Pages 393-418

  17. Miscellaneous Issues

    • Chang Q. Sun, Yi Sun
    Pages 419-453

  18. Approaching Strategies

    • Chang Q. Sun, Yi Sun
    Pages 455-477

  19. Laws for Water

    • Chang Q. Sun, Yi Sun
    Pages 479-488

  20. Erratum to: The Attribute of Water

    • Chang Q. Sun, Yi Sun
    Pages E1-E1
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Singapore, Singapore

    Chang Q Sun

  • China Jiliang University, Hangzhou, China

    Yi Sun

About the authors

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.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Attribute of Water

  • Book Subtitle: Single Notion, Multiple Myths

  • Authors: Chang Q Sun, Yi Sun

  • Series Title: Springer Series in Chemical Physics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0180-2

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-0178-9Published: 21 March 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9096-7Published: 25 April 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-0180-2Published: 13 February 2016

  • Series ISSN: 0172-6218

  • Series E-ISSN: 2364-9003

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXI, 494

  • Number of Illustrations: 243 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Atomic/Molecular Structure and Spectra, Water, general, Nanotechnology

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