The supramolecular structure of liquid water and quantum coherent processes in biology

Vibrational spectroscopy provides a powerful tool to understand the molecular structures. When applied to the liquid water, this technique reveals so many details which can also shed a light on the supramolecular arrangement of the most ubiquitous of the substances. In particular, the two fluid mode...

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Published inJournal of physics. Conference series Vol. 442; no. 1; pp. 12031 - 9
Main Authors Ninno, A De, Castellano, A Congiu, Giudice, E Del
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bristol IOP Publishing 01.01.2013
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Biology
Coherence
Mathematical models
Molecular structure
Physics
Quantum electrodynamics
Two fluid models
Water
Water wells
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Summary:Vibrational spectroscopy provides a powerful tool to understand the molecular structures. When applied to the liquid water, this technique reveals so many details which can also shed a light on the supramolecular arrangement of the most ubiquitous of the substances. In particular, the two fluid model of water, proposed several decades ago, founds experimental evidence. Moreover, some fundamental parameters calculated in the realm of the theory of Quantum ElectroDynamics applied to liquid water can be actually measured showing an excellent agreement with the theory. This allows to add a dynamical origin to the mixed cluster model of water well known by the biologists for fifty years and opens the way to the dawn of a real quantum biology.
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ISSN:1742-6596
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DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/442/1/012031