The newly established Cluster of Excellence RESOLV (Ruhr Explores Solvation) was selected by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in June 2012 to be one of 12 new Clusters in Germany, receiving a ...

In biologically active enzyme substrate compounds, as can be found in medicines, water plays a more decisive role than has been imagined up to now. The surrounding water acts like an "adhesive", in ...

Research efforts related to the Hofmeister series of salt ions have waxed and waned during its long and storied history. The past few decades have, however, witnessed a renaissance in its study, and ...

The two possible pathways that muriatic acid can follow in the conditions like those found in interstellar space: Dissociate or absorb in icy water. This material relates to a paper that appeared in ...

Chemists have tracked with unprecedented spatial resolution how individual water molecules attach to an organic molecule. They used low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy to visualize the ...