Role of Water for Life
The behavior of benzoic acid in polyethylene inspired me to reflect on why water is a unique molecule that all living organisms depend upon. From properties of DNA in aqueous solution a seemingly counter-intuitive conjecture emerges: water is needed for the creation of certain dry low-dielectric nm-...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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World Scientific Publishing
2019-06-01
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Series: | Molecular Frontiers Journal |
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Online Access: | http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/S2529732519400017 |