Special Issue "Water: Facts without Myths"

Guest Editor
Prof. Dr. Marc Henry
UMR 7140, Chimie Moleculaire du Solide, Université de Strasbourg, Institut Le Bel, 4, Rue Blaise Pascal, F - 67070 Strasbourg, France
Website: http://www-chimie.u-strasbg.fr/~lcmes/labo
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Interests: water clusters; interfacial water; titanium dioxide; sol-gel processing; partial charge model (PACHA); polyoxometallates

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Type of Paper: Review
Title: Can a Century Old Experiment Reveal Hidden Properties of Water?
Author: Elmar C. Fuchs
Affiliation: Wetsus - Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Water Technology, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands; E-Mail: Elmar.Fuchs@wetsus.nl
Abstract: In 1893 Sir William Armstrong placed a cotton thread between two wine glasses filled with chemically pure water. After applying a high voltage, a watery connection formed, and after some time, the cotton thread was pulled into one of the glasses, leaving a rope of water suspended between the two glasses. Although being a very simple experiment, it is of special interest since it comprises a number of phenomena currently tackled in modern water science like electrolysis-less charge transport and nano bubbles. This work illuminates the experimental data from different perspectives. It shows which of the bridge's properties can be explained by established theories and which properties need new approaches as currently discussed within the scientific community.

Title: Water Dynamics at the Roots of the Metamorphosis in Living Organisms
Authors: Emilio Del Giudice ^1,2 , Paola Rosa Spinetti ³, Alberto Tedeschi ⁴
Affiliations: ¹ INFN, Milano, Italy; E-Mail: Emilio.DelGiudice@mi.infn.it
² IIB, Neuss, Germany
³ Progeam, Milano, Italy
⁴ WHITE HB, Milano, Italy
Abstract: Liquid water has been recognized long ago to be the matrix of many processes, including life and also rock dynamics. Interactions among biomolecules occur very differently in a non-aqueous system and are unable to produce life. This ability to make possible living processes implies a very peculiar structure of liquid water. According to modern Quantum Field Theory (QFT), a complementary principle (in the sense of Niels Bohr) holds between the number N of field quanta ( including the matter field whose quanta are just the atoms/molecules) and the phase Ф. This means that when we focus on the atomic structure of matter we lose its coherence properties and vice versa when we examine the phase dynamics of the system its atomic structure becomes undefined. Superfluid liquid Helium has been the first example of this peculiar quantum dynamics. In the present paper we show how the consideration of the phase dynamics of liquid water makes possible the understanding of its peculiar role in the onset of self-organisation in living organism and in ecosystems.