December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
12h 35m
English
Takeo Miyake1 and Marco Rolandi2
1Waseda University, Graduate School of Information, Production and System, Kitakyushu,, Fukuoka, 808-0135, Japan
2University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Electrical Engineering, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, (USA)
In 1804, Theodor von Grotthuss proposed a hopping mechanism for proton (H+) transfer in chains of hydrogen-bonded water. This transfer involves the exchange of the covalent bond between an H and an O with the hydrogen bond formed by the same H with a neighboring water molecule [1–3]. At the time, water was believed to be HO and not H2O; however, the Grotthuss mechanism stuck, and it is ...
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