Pavel Jungwirth - Water: Myths and Facts (Fridays 7.10.2016)
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Water is of fundamental importance to humanity and to life on Earth as a universal biological solvent. The availability of quality water is one of the decisive factors in economic development, and political scientists predict that international conflicts in the coming decades will not be about oil, but about water. Water also has a spiritual significance in human culture - in the Christian tradition, water purifies and can even be turned into wine. Given its fundamental importance to humanity, it is perhaps surprising how much we still do not know about water from a more prosaic, scientific perspective. This lecture is about how our knowledge is often "just water, just water", although sometimes, admittedly, it "burns up" in our laboratories and computing centers, in which we focus on the interesting physical and chemical properties of water and the myths that are created around water. And as a bonus, we will show how and why sodium explodes in water and you will learn how another experiment with tasting water on site turned out. Prof. Mgr. Pavel Jungwirth, CSc., DSc., is a Czech physical chemist, university teacher and science popularizer. He graduated in physics from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, with a focus on chemical physics. He received his PhD for his work in the field of computational chemistry, working under the supervision of Prof. Rudolf Zahradník at the J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and at Charles University in Prague. Since 2004, he has been working as a leader of the scientific team at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and is also an external member of the Department of Chemical Physics and Optics of the Faculty of Physics and Chemistry of Charles University. His scientific focus is molecular simulations of ions at aqueous interfaces, including interactions of ions with proteins and membranes; chemistry of aqueous aerosols, structure and dynamics of solvated electrons. The goal is to understand specific ion effects in proteins, biomembranes and in water droplets. (CV source: Wikipedia) More info: www.molecular.cz/~jungwirt
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