Structure and dynamics of nanoconfined water and aqueous solutions

CORTI, HORACIO R.; APPIGNANESI, GUSTAVO A.; BARBOSA, MARCIA C.; BORDIN, RAFAEL J.; CALERO, CARLES; CAMISASCA, GAIA; ELOLA, M. DOLORES; FRANZESE, GIANCARLO; GALLO, PAOLA; HASSANALI, ALI; HUANG, KAI; LARIA, DANIEL; MENENDEZ, CINTIA A.; MONTES DE OCA, JOAN M.; LONGINOTTI, PAULA; RODRIGEZ, JAVIER; ROVERE, MAURO; SCHERLIS, DAMIÁN; SZLEIFER, IGAL

The European Physical Journal E

Springer

Lugar: Les Ulis; Año: 2021 vol. 44 p. 136 - 136

1292-8941

This review is devoted to discussing recent progress on the structure, thermodynamic, reactivity,and dynamics of water and aqueous systems confined within different types of nanopores, synthetic andbiological. Currently, this is a branch of water science that has attracted enormous attention of researchersfrom different fields interested to extend the understanding of the anomalous properties of bulk waterto the nanoscopic domain. From a fundamental perspective, the interactions of water and solutes with aconfining surface dramatically modify the liquid?s structure and, consequently, both its thermodynami-cal and dynamical behaviors, breaking the validity of the classical thermodynamic and phenomenologicaldescription of the transport properties of aqueous systems. Additionally, man-made nanopores and porousmaterials have emerged as promising solutions to challenging problems such as water purification, biosens-ing, nanofluidic logic and gating, and energy storage and conversion, while aquaporin, ion channels, andnuclear pore complex nanopores regulate many biological functions such as the conduction of water, thegeneration of action potentials, and the storage of genetic material. In this work, the more recent experi-mental and molecular simulations advances in this exciting and rapidly evolving field will be reported andcritically discussed.