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

[摘要] 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.

[发布机构] Centro Ricerche ENEA Frascati, via Enrico Fermi 27, 00044-Roma, Italy^1;Department of Physics, Uni. of Rome Sapienza, p. Aldo Moro, 00100 Roma, Italy^2;not available, via Friuli 21, 20135 Milano, Italy^3

[效力级别] 力学 [学科分类] 力学，机械学

[关键词] Coherent process;Experimental evidence;Liquid water;Mixed clusters;Quantum electrodynamics;Supramolecular arrangement;Supramolecular structure;Two fluid model