Inside water with Dr Patricia Hunt

We have been studying liquid water for hundreds of years, and we still don’t understand all its secrets.

Water is all around us, it forms the oceans, lakes and rivers, it forms clouds in the atmosphere, and our bodies are almost all water.

Because water is part of our everyday lives we are not aware of how special water is, how it differs from most other liquids. Now, we can delve deeper than ever before into the molecular structure of water.

This talk will explore how individual molecules of water interact, how they move and rearrange, and how other molecules perturb the liquid environment. With this knowledge we can explain many of the unusual properties of water, however, some of the old mysteries persist and exciting new questions arise.

Dr Patricia Hunt is Reader in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry at Imperial College London.