By Cathy Knotts
In late December, Science Magazine listed its top 10
breakthroughs in 2004. In eighth place was SSRL’s research on the
structure of water. A team of researchers, led by scientists at SSRL and
Stockholm University, found that water molecules clump much more loosely
than previously thought. This work revealed detailed information about the
nearest neighbor coordination geometry in liquid water and has
implications for multiple fields from chemistry to atmospheric sciences.
For more information, see:
http://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/structureofwater.html
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/slac/media-info/20040402/index.html
