Transport and Reactivity of Solutions in Confined Hydrosystems - Mercury, Lionel; Tas, Niels; Zilberbrand, Michael; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014)
Confined water in complex networks: unifying our understanding of pore water and solutes at all scales -- Interactions in water across interfaces: from nano to macro-scale perspective -- Theme 1: Flow, from nano- to mega-scale.-Confined water in carbon nanotubes and its applications -- Static and dynamic capillarity in silicon based nanochannels -- Confined water in saturated and non-saturated media: Infrared signature and thermodynamic properties -- Interchange of Infiltrating and Resident Water in Partially Saturated Media -- Impact of heterogeneity on evaporation from bare soils -- Theme 2: Ions, Hydration and Transport -- Enhanced Ion Transport in 2-nm Silica Nanochannels -- Ionic and Molecular Transport through Graphene Membranes -- Molecular structure and dynamics of molecular water: computer simulations of aqueous species in clay, cement, and polymer membranes -- Two generalizations of the theory of seismoelectric effect: Parameterization providing suitability of Frenkel's theory for any geometry of soil's pore space. The role of thermoosmosis in seismoelectric effect -- Theme 3. In-channels/pores cavitation -- Evaporation-Induced Cavitation in Nanofluidic channels: Dynamics and Origin -- Electrocavitation in nanochannels -- Stability and negative pressure in bulk and confined liquids -- Experimental superheating and cavitation of water and solutions at spinodal-like negative pressures -- Plant water transport and cavitation -- Theme 4: Crystallization under confinement -- Crystal growth and phase equilibria in porous materials -- Shaping the interface - interactions between confined water and the confining solid -- Geochemistry of capillary hydrogeochemical systems in arid environments -- Evaporation from a porous medium in the presence of salt crystallization -- Micro-CT analysis to explore salt precipitation impact on porous media permeability -- Reactive Transport in Heterogeneous Media -- Extraction of water from the atmosphere in arid areas by employing composites "a salt inside a porous matrix".
Keywords: Environmental sciences; Water-supply.; Physical chemistry; Nanoscale science; Nanoscience; Nanostructures; Physical geography; Thermodynamics; Environmental Physics; Water Industry/Water Technologies; Physical Chemistry; Nanoscale Science and Technology; Earth System Sciences; Thermodynamics