The monograph Hydration Reaction Kinetics: Charge Injection Theory (ISBN 978-7-04-061430-5), co-authored by Professor Wang Biao and Professor Sun Changqing's team from the Interdisciplinary Science Research Center and Professor Huang Yongli from Xiangtan University, has recently been published by Higher Education Press. This monograph elucidates the charge injection theory of hydration reactions and presents the latest research advances. It systematically demonstrates the formation mechanisms of submolecular-scale interfacial H«H anti-hydrogen bonds and O:Û:O super-hydrogen bonds between solute and solvent, as well as their electrostatic shielding polarization effects on O:H–O coupled hydrogen bonds. Dongguan University of Technology is the first completing institution, with authors Professor Wang Biao and Professor Sun Changqing from Dongguan University of Technology, and Professor Huang Yongli from Xiangtan University.
The monograph covers perturbation metrology spectroscopy, charge injection theory, hydration supersolidity properties, and multi-field coupling effects of hydrated hydrogen bonds. It emphasizes that hydration reactions are primarily physical rather than chemical processes, dominated by bond relaxation, polarization, or disruption of the hydrogen bond network through repulsion. This clarification resolves theoretical controversies regarding ion, proton, and lone pair electron transport as well as energy transfer during the hydration of acids, bases, salts, and organic molecules. The book establishes methodologies and techniques for characterizing the stiffness–abundance–order–lifetime transitions of hydrogen bonds and the dimensions of hydration cells during hydration processes, thereby advancing human understanding of hydration as an important and fundamental physical process. This book serves as a reference for research and teaching in physics, chemistry, soft matter, biology and medicine, solid–liquid interfaces, and related fields.
This monograph was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
First draft: Fang Hengxin, Wang Sanmei; First review: Liu Zhao; Second review: Final review: Wang Biao
