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The special topic edited by F. Mallamace, R. Car & Limei Xu reports eleven contributions jointly written by lecturers and students attending the 2016 “Ettore Majorana” Erice International School on Water and Water Systems. These papers focus on the study of water and its solutions from a molecular perspective, water being a complex system at the intersection of Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Materials Science. On these bases it requires sophisticated experimental techniques and advanced statistical physics methods. The proposed special topic is organized to provide a broad field overview, including the recent ideas, as far as critical discussions, of the challenging problems proposed by the water physics that are currently attracting the researchers’ attention. [Photoed in Jiuzhaigou National Park. Photo credits: Zhong-Jie Deng & Hui-Jing Huang]

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Traversable braneworld wormholes supported by astrophysical observations

Deng Wang, Xin-He Wang

Front. Phys. . 2018, 13 (1): 139801 .   https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-017-0701-y

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Dynamical properties of water in living cells 

Irina Piazza, Antonio Cupane, Emmanuel L. Barbier, Claire Rome, Nora Collomb, Jacques Ollivier, Miguel A. Gonzalez, Author_FootNote:Francesca Natali

Front. Phys. . 2018, 13 (1): 138302 .   https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-017-0738-y

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Dynamical properties of water in living cells  ^Collection

Irina Piazza, Antonio Cupane, Emmanuel L. Barbier, Claire Rome, Nora Collomb, Jacques Ollivier, Miguel A. Gonzalez, Francesca Natali

Front. Phys. . 2018, 13 (1): 138301 .   https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-017-0731-5

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Dynamics of supercooled confined water measured by deep inelastic neutron scattering  ^Collection

Vincenzo De Michele, Giovanni Romanelli, Antonio Cupane

Front. Phys. . 2018, 13 (1): 138205 .   https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-017-0699-1

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Signature of the hydrogen-bonded environment of liquid water in X-ray emission spectra from first-principles calculations  ^Collection

Huaze Shen, Mohan Chen, Zhaoru Sun, Limei Xu, Enge Wang, Xifan Wu

Front. Phys. . 2018, 13 (1): 138204 .   https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-017-0700-z

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High-temperature dynamic behavior in bulk liquid water: A molecular dynamics simulation study using the OPC and TIP4P-Ew potentials ^Collection

Andrea Gabrieli, Marco Sant, Saeed Izadi, Parviz Seifpanahi Shabane, Alexey V. Onufriev, Giuseppe B. Suffritti

Front. Phys. . 2018, 13 (1): 138203 .   https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-017-0693-7

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NMR investigation of degradation processes of ancient and modern paper at different hydration levels  ^Collection

Domenico Mallamace, Sebastiano Vasi, Mauro Missori, Francesco Mallamace, Carmelo Corsaro

Front. Phys. . 2018, 13 (1): 138202 .   https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-017-0686-6

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Contrasting microscopic interactions determine the properties of water/methanol solutions  ^Collection

Carmelo Corsaro, Francesco Mallamace, Sebastiano Vasi, Sow-Hsin Chen, H. Eugene Stanley, Domenico Mallamace

Front. Phys. . 2018, 13 (1): 138201 .   https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-017-0685-7

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Transport evidence of 3D topological nodal-line semimetal phase in ZrSiS 

Junran Zhang, Ming Gao, Jinglei Zhang, Xuefeng Wang, Xiaoqian Zhang, Minhao Zhang, Wei Niu, Rong Zhang, Yongbing Xu

Front. Phys. . 2018, 13 (1): 137201 .   https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-017-0705-7

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Structural properties of water confined by phospholipid membranes ^Collection

Fausto Martelli, Hsin-Yu Ko, Carles Calero Borallo, Giancarlo Franzese

Front. Phys. . 2018, 13 (1): 136801 .   https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-017-0704-8

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Topological superradiant state in Fermi gases with cavity induced spin–orbit coupling 

Dongyang Yu, Jian-Song Pan, Xiong-Jun Liu, Wei Zhang, Wei Yi

Front. Phys. . 2018, 13 (1): 136701 .   https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-017-0695-5

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PEG-PLGA electrospun nanofibrous membranes loaded with Au@Fe2O3 nanoparticles for drug delivery applications  ^Collection

Salvatore Spadaro, Marco Santoro, Francesco Barreca, Angela Scala, Simona Grimato, Fortunato Neri, Enza Fazio

Front. Phys. . 2018, 13 (1): 136201 .   https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-017-0703-9

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Fragile to strong crossover and Widom line in supercooled water: A comparative study  ^Collection

Margherita De Marzio, Gaia Camisasca, Mauro Rovere, Paola Gallo

Front. Phys. . 2018, 13 (1): 136103 .   https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-017-0714-6

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Core-softened potentials, multiple liquid–liquid critical points, and density anomaly regions: An exact solution  ^Collection

Eduardo O. Rizzatti, Marco Aurélio A. Barbosa, Marcia C. Barbosa

Front. Phys. . 2018, 13 (1): 136102 .   https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-017-0725-3

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Hydrogen mean force and anharmonicity in polycrystalline and amorphous ice ^Collection

A. Parmentier, C. Andreani, G. Romanelli, J. J. Shephard, C. G. Salzmann, R. Senesi

Front. Phys. . 2018, 13 (1): 136101 .   https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-017-0724-4

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Evolution of finite energy Airy beams in cubic-quintic atomic vapor system 

Zhen-Kun Wu, Hao Guo, Wei Wang, Yu-Zong Gu

Front. Phys. . 2018, 13 (1): 134201 .   https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-017-0707-5

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Two-dimensional matter-wave solitons and vortices in competing cubic-quintic nonlinear lattices 

Xuzhen Gao, Jianhua Zeng

Front. Phys. . 2018, 13 (1): 130501 .   https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-017-0697-3

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Multipartite quantum correlations among atoms in QED cavities 

J. Batle, A. Farouk, O. Tarawneh, S. Abdalla

Front. Phys. . 2018, 13 (1): 130305 .   https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-017-0711-9

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Uncertainty relations for quantum coherence with respect to mutually unbiased bases 

Alexey E. Rastegin

Front. Phys. . 2018, 13 (1): 130304 .   https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-017-0713-7

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Cavity control as a new quantum algorithms implementation treatment 

M. AbuGhanem, A. H. Homid, M. Abdel-Aty

Front. Phys. . 2018, 13 (1): 130303 .   https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-017-0709-3

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Clock frequency estimation under spontaneous emission 

Xi-Zhou Qin (秦锡洲), Jia-Hao Huang (黄嘉豪), Hong-Hua Zhong (钟宏华), Chaohong Lee (李朝红)

Front. Phys. . 2018, 13 (1): 130302 .   https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-017-0706-6

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Hidden antiunitary symmetry behind “accidental” degeneracy and its protection of degeneracy 

Jing-Min Hou, Wei Chen

Front. Phys. . 2018, 13 (1): 130301 .   https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-017-0712-8

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Mean-field approximations of fixation time distributions of evolutionary game dynamics on graphs 

Li-Min Ying, Jie Zhou, Ming Tang, Shu-Guang Guan, Yong Zou

Front. Phys. . 2018, 13 (1): 130201 .   https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-017-0698-2

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