The Mpemba Effect: Experiment & Theory
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2027 | Viewed by 25
Editors
Interests: first-order phase transitions; water freezing; Mpemba effect; ice nucleation; protein folding; antifreeze proteins; ice-binding proteins; protein design; protein structure; molecular interactions
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The "Mpemba effect" is usually formulated as "hot water may freeze faster than cold water;" in its modern, more general form, which includes effects found in various objects, including quantum ones, it reads as "the state that is initially farthest from its equilibrium state attains the latter at the earliest time".
The paradoxical Mpemba effect, which seemingly violates the laws of chemistry and physics, has been—for half a century—the subject of sporadic academic debate in leading scientific journals, including Nature, PNAS, Physical Review, The Journal of Physical Chemistry, and now Science.
We believe the time has come to compile a Special Issue of Molecules on this topic. The title of this Special Issue is "The Mpemba Effect: Experiment & Theory".
We invite colleagues whose work is devoted to investigating the paradoxical Mpemba effects both in classical and quantum realms to participate in this Special Issue. We seek original research articles and reviews that describe advances in studies of these effects, as well as articles and reviews devoted to applications of classical and quantum Mpemba effects.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Alexei Finkelstein
Dr. Bogdan S. Melnik
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Mpemba effect
- first-order phase transitions
- water freezing
- ice nucleation
- supercooling
- colloids
- quantum Mpemba effects
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