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The neglected interface: the biology of water as a liquid-gas system*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2009

Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
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Department of Zoology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
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Water, solutes and membranes have long been the subject of intensive research, and many excellent reviews have brought the major biological problems in focus, have discussed accomplishments, and have outlined unsolved problems. The most interesting results pertain to the role of membranes, whether ‘active’ or ‘passive’, which separate different solutions, in other words, membranes at a water–water inerface Liquid gas interfaces have receied less attention, and I therefore wish to review some biological problem which relate to such systems. I shall discuss a variety of phenomena which may have little in common, except that they all bear onthe transition of water between liquid and gas.

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Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , August 1969 , pp. 283 - 304
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1969

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