{"id":184070,"date":"2024-03-01T13:35:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T19:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/a-new-theoretical-development-clarifies-waters-electronic-structure"},"modified":"2024-03-01T13:35:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T19:35:15","slug":"a-new-theoretical-development-clarifies-waters-electronic-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/a-new-theoretical-development-clarifies-waters-electronic-structure","title":{"rendered":"A new theoretical development clarifies water\u2019s electronic structure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-theoretical-development-clarifies-waters-electronic-structure2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is no doubt that water is significant. Without it, life would never have begun, let alone continue today\u2014not to mention its role in the environment itself, with oceans covering over 70% of Earth.<\/p>\n<p>But despite its ubiquity, liquid water features some electronic intricacies that have long puzzled scientists in chemistry, physics, and technology. For example, the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electron+affinity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electron affinity<\/a>, i.e., the energy stabilization undergone by a free electron when captured by water, has remained poorly characterized from an experimental point of view.<\/p>\n<p>Even today\u2019s most accurate electronic structure <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/theory\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">theory<\/a> has been unable to clarify the picture, which means that important physical quantities like the energy at which electrons from external sources can be injected in liquid water remain elusive. These properties are crucial for understanding the behavior of electrons in water and could play a role in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/biological+systems\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">biological systems<\/a>, environmental cycles, and technological applications like solar energy conversion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no doubt that water is significant. Without it, life would never have begun, let alone continue today\u2014not to mention its role in the environment itself, with oceans covering over 70% of Earth. But despite its ubiquity, liquid water features some electronic intricacies that have long puzzled scientists in chemistry, physics, and technology. For [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,219,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-physics","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}