Hydrogen Bond Energies in Formation of Water Molecule Clusters
Dimitar Mehandjiev
Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev Str., Bl. 11, Sofia 1113, Bulgaria.
Ignat Ignatov
Scientific Research Center of Medical Biophysics, 32 N. Kopernik Str., Sofia 1111, Bulgaria.
Nikolai Neshev
Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Faculty of Physics, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Georgi Gluhchev
Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad., G. Bonchev Str., Bl. 2, Sofia 1113, Bulgaria.
Christos Drossiankis
IAWG- INTERNATIONALE Akademie für Wissenschaftliche Geistheilung, Hauptplatz 44, A-2293 Marchegg, Austria, Frankfurt, Germany.
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Abstract
During the last decades, the interest in water structure has increased as an important theoretical and practical problem, connected with different industrial and biological applications. Theoretically, the mechanisms of water molecules cluster formation have been of special interest. It has been assumed that aggregation of water molecules depends on the energy of hydrogen bonds. The character of this process was investigated in the present study. The approach was based on measurements of the wetting angle θ of water droplets at different energy levels during their evaporation. Taking into account previous findings that θ depends on the average energy of hydrogen bonds between water molecules, it was assumed that the size of water clusters is related to the value of θ, measured at different energy levels. This assumption was confirmed by the obtained experimental results.
Keywords: Water, hydrogen bonds, water clusters, energy