05/07/01     07/12/01

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Letter 1        Sent: 05/07/01 22:00

To: Gerber; Garrett; Kay; Devlin; Tobias; Ewing; Tao; Tanaka; Lisy; Pettersson; Jordan; Cowin; Sodeau; Jungwirth; Bartell; Dang; Berkowitz; Shultz; Baragiola; Xantheas; Szalewicz; Buck; Buch; Zwier

Subject: confined water book

Chapter Authors:  
We are approaching/entering the summer break time, at least in parts of the States, so it is time to seriously think about the preparation of the chapters for the book "Water in Confined Geometries". This is being sent to those potential authors who have agreed, with more or less enthusiasm, to write a chapter for the book. The list of authors and subjects is now complete, so in addition to encouraging you to start preparation of the chapter, we are enclosing a list of the authors/titles, and a tentative indication of the sectioning of the book. In a matter of days, we hope to formalize much of this on a web site with somewhat greater detail. Shortly thereafter we will be looking for suggestions from the authors on the overall organization of the book, as well as brief abstracts from each author to help with that organization. At this time you should a) check that the title is to your satisfaction and b) proceed with the assurance that the construction of each chapter should resemble that of a JPC feature article, with a somewhat extended introduction followed by a focus on your own methods and results. The length of each chapter is still projected as in the range of 15-20 book pages. 

The book will appear in the Springer-Verlag Cluster series. It is conceived as a collection of interesting monographs written by people who are seriously interested in various aspects of the subject. However, there will be an effort to construct a cohesive monograph on the general subject, hopefully with a minimum of intrusion on the objectives of the individual authors. Nominally, the time scale for submission of a manuscript is mid-Fall of 2001. The tangible recompense for each chapter will be a copy of the book and 200 DM. 

The book will be separated into sections more or less as follows: theoretical studies of intermolecular interactions ( Szalewicz, Tao, Xantheas), neutral and ionic water clusters (Buck, Garrett, Jordan, Lisy), solid and liquid water surfaces/interfaces (Buch, Cowin, Dang, Ewing, Shultz, Tanaka), amorphous ice layers (Baragiola, Kay), ice and Water particles (Bartell, Devlin), water in biosystems (Berkowitz, Gerber, Tobias, Zwier), and topics related to the atmosphere (Jungwirth, Pettersson, Sodeau). Scientists who have agreed to submit a chapter are listed alphabetically below. All titles that are included can be regarded as tentative, but those titles suggested by the authors are identified by quotation marks. In some cases chapters will have co-authors who are not listed at this time.  

Authors and Titles:

1. Baragiola... "Amorphous water thin films and astrophysical implications"

2. Bartell... "Nucleation of ice in large water clusters: simulation and experiment" 

3. Berkowitz... "structural and dynamical properties of water at  micellar surfaces" 

4. Buch... "Ice surface structure and energetics" 

5. Buck... "Vibrational spectroscopy and reactions of water clusters" 

6. Cowin..."Fluidity and solvation at the waters edge" 

7. Dang... "Computational studies of liquid water interfaces" 

8. Devlin..."Solid water particles" 

9. Ewing...Thin film water and ice at insulator surfaces 

10. Garrett... Thermo and kinetic properties of water clusters 

11. Gerber... "Interactions, spectroscopy, and vibrational energy flow in water Complexes with biological molecules"

12. Jordan..Theoretical studies of neutral and charged water clusters 

13. Jungwirth... "Physical properties and atmospheric reactivity of aqueous sea-salt micro-aerosols" 

14. Kay...Nanoscale films of amorphous solid water 

15. Lisy..."Water-solute interactions in clusters" 

16.Pettersson... Icy surfaces and ice-adsorbate interactions 

17. Shultz... SFG studies of surfaces of water and of aque solutions                                                                             

18. Sodeau... "Interactions and photochemistry of atmospheric molecules on ice films" 

19. Szalewicz... The nature of many body forces in H2O as learned from cluster studies  

20. Tanaka... "Molecular simulations on phase behavior of confined  water in slit and cylindrical nanopores: Freezing into new ice and amorphous forms." 

 21. Tao..."The solvent effect of individual water molecules"

 22. Tobias... Biological aspects of confined water 

 23. Xantheas... what can be learned of interactions between water  molecules from ab initio studies of water clusters

24. Zwier... "Laser studies of the role of water bridges in dictating molecular conformation" 

 Book coeditors: V. Buch and J. P. Devlin

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Letter 2       Sent: 05/07/01 22:00