Hydration

Broadband rotational spectroscopy unravels structural reshaping of isolated molecules in the gas phase to accommodate water Researchers around Melanie Schnell from the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter at CFEL and from the Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI) show more

Water is simple and complex at the same time. A single water molecule (H2O) is made up of only 3 atoms. Yet the collective behavior of water molecules is unique and continues to amaze us. Water molecules are linked together by hydrogen bonds that break and form several thousands of billions of times more

Italian chemists have come up with a homogenous catalytic system that displays substrate selectivity by developing an encapsulated catalyst that mimics enzymes to selectively hydrate one alkyne over a mixture of others. The scientists encapsulated an NHC-Au(I) catalyst within a supramolecular host t more

Materials, Vol. 11, Pages 1110: Investigation of Three-Dimensional Microstructure of Tricalcium Silicate (C3S) by Electron Microscopy Materials doi: 10.3390/ma11071110 Authors: Fei Yang Xianping Liu Yongjuan Zhao Yongming Zhang Peiming Wang Ian Robinson Bo Chen A serial bl more

Polyelectrolyte brushes provide wear protection and lubrication in many technical, medical, physiological, and biological applications. Wear resistance and low friction are attributed to counterion osmotic pressure and the hydration layer surrounding the charged polymer segments. However, the prese more

Water molecules in different parts of the anisotropic hydration shell of an aromatic molecule experience different interactions. In the present study, we investigate the anisotropic dynamics of water molecules in different non-overlapping conical shells around a benzene solute at sub- and supercriti more