Affiliation:
1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK ()
Abstract
What
is
so special about water? Why does it have the properties it has, and how might these reasons be relevant to its apparent biological importance? By exploring the structure and dynamics of water, from the isolated molecule and its interactions, through its many crystalline phases and to its so–called anomalous liquid phase, some of its apparently unusual behaviour is rationalized. The way in which it interacts with some relatively simple interfaces is also discussed. As a result of this exploration, a checklist of possible molecular–level reasons for its biological importance is devised.
Subject
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
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