Overview
- It provides a timely overview of dynamic and static experiments on confined water conducted as a function of the size of pores/channels
- It discusses the liquid confinement in pores/channels in a variety of materials, scales and applications: from clean water technology, building material weathering, to environmental prediction
- It connects conceptions of confinement from very different branches of science, such as geology, biology, physical chemistry, and nano-physics
Part of the book series: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security (NAPSC)
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Table of contents (22 papers)
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Front Matter
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Flow, from Nano- to Mega-Scale
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Ions, Hydration, and Transport
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In-Pores/Channels Cavitation
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Crystallization Under Confinement
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About this book
The present work reflects a multi-disciplinary effort to address the topic of confined hydrosystems developed with a cross-fertilization panel of physics, chemists, biologists, soil and earth scientists. Confined hydrosystems include all situations in natural settings wherein the extent of the liquid phase is limited so that the solid-liquid and/or liquid-air interfaces may be critical to the properties of the whole system. Primarily, this so-called “residual” solution is occluded in pores/channels in such a way that decreases its tendency to evaporation, and makes it long-lasting in arid (Earth deserts) and hyper-arid (Mars soils) areas. The associated physics is available from domains like capillarity, adsorption and wetting, and surface forces. However, many processes are still to understand due to the close relationship between local structure and matter properties, the subtle interplay between the host and the guest, the complex intermingling among static reactivity and migration pathway.
Expert contributors from Israel, Russia, Europe and US discuss the behaviour of water and aqueous solutes at different scale, from the nanometric range of carbon nanotubes and nanofluidics to the regional scale of aquifers reactive flow in sedimentary basins. This scientific scope allowed the group of participants with very different background to tackle the confinement topic at different scales. The book is organized according to four sections that include: i) flow, from nano- to mega-scale; ii) ions, hydration and transport; iii) in-pores/channels cavitation; iv) crystallization under confinement. Most of contributions relates to experimental works at different resolution, interpreted through classic thermodynamics and intermolecular forces. Simulation techniques are used to explore the atomic scale of interfaces and the migration in the thinnest angstrom-wide channels.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transport and Reactivity of Solutions in Confined Hydrosystems
Editors: Lionel Mercury, Niels Tas, Michael Zilberbrand
Series Title: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7534-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7533-6Published: 02 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7543-5Published: 20 December 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7534-3Published: 12 November 2013
Series ISSN: 1874-6519
Series E-ISSN: 1874-6543
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 268
Number of Illustrations: 64 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Physics, Water Industry/Water Technologies, Physical Chemistry, Nanoscale Science and Technology, Earth System Sciences, Thermodynamics