Eighth Condensed Phase and Interfacial Molecular Science (CPIMS)

Figure 1: Snap shots from molecular dynamics trajectories showing some of the
systems examined by the Chandler research group in their DOE funded studies of
liquid interfaces.
convenient theory of solvation and hydrophobic effects is established for the first time in
Publication [6].
Finally, we have embarked upon a program of understanding the properties of water at
supercooled conditions. Just as hydrophobicity is controlled by interfaces because of the
proximity of liquid-vapor coexistence, the behaviors of cold water in bulk, in
confinement and in non-equilibrium, depend upon interfaces because of the proximity of
crystal-liquid coexistence. Figure 2 illustrates some of our recent results on this topic
[10,16]. H. E. Stanley and his many coworkers and followers have widely written on
how properties of cold and supercooled liquid water might reflect a metaphysical liquidliquid
transition and critical point. The need for such an unseemly explanation is no
longer, as all these properties are now shown to reflect nothing more than easily observed
water-ice coexistence and associated pre-melting phenomena [10,16]. This newly
developed understanding of confined cold water sets the stage for interpreting crystal,
liquid and amorphous-solid phase behaviors of aerosols, a topic of significant importance
to climate science, and a topic we plan to examine in the near future.
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