Water in Confining Geometries
A Monograph of Monographs  

Publisher: Springer-Verlag       Representative: Klaus Ascheron  

Co-Editors: V. Buch and J. P. Devlin

The book will appear in the Springer-Verlag Cluster series. It is conceived as a collection of interesting monographs by people who are seriously interested in various aspects of the subject. However, as described by the publisher (below), 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. Each chapter is expected to be 15-20 pages in length in book form. Nominally, the time scale is until mid-Fall of 2001.  

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. The tangible recompense for each chapter will be a copy of the book and 200 DM.  

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 aqueous 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 abinitio studies of water clusters

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