Preface Adam Gadomski, UTP University of Science and Technology in Bydgoszcz; agad@utp.edu.pl
Introduction Adam Gadomski; UTP University of Science and Technology in Bydgoszcz; agad@utp.edu.pl
Chapter 1 Basics on the water and its states
Arieh Ben-Naim, University of Jerusalem; ariehbennaim@gmail.com
Chapter 2 Superior role of amphiphiles in friction-lubrication articulating systems
Piotr Beldowski and coworkers, UTP University of Science and Technology in Bydgoszcz; piobel000@utp.edu.pl
Chapter 3 Synergies in lubricating biosystems
Andra Dedinaite and Per Claesson, KTH Stockholm; andra@kth.se
Chapter 4 Water-based tribology of soft materials with percolating contact areas at nanometer scale
Bo Persson and coworkers, FZ Jülich, b.persson@fz-juelich.de
Chapter 5 Coarse-grained and all-atom computer modeling for self-assembled amphiphiles of viscoelastic propensity
Natalia Kruszewska and Jacek Siódmiak, UTP University of Science and Technology in Bydgoszcz; nkruszewska@utp.edu.pl
Chapter 6 Networks and gels as revealed by SAXS experiment and computer simulations
Matija Tomsic and coworkers, University of Ljubljana; Matija.Tomsic@fkkt.uni-lj.si
Chapter 7 Properties of hydrated materials as exemplified by silk supercontraction with its molecular origin
Admir Masic and coworkers, MIT Boston, masic@mit.edu
Chapter 8 Examples of functional morphologies with promising biomechanical properties
Stanislav Gorb and coworkers, University of Kiel; sgorb@zoologie.uni-kiel.de
Chapter 9 Water percolation phenomena on microstructured surfaces and adhesive pads
Alexander Filippov, Donetsk Institute for Physics and Engineering, Ukraine; filippov_ae@yahoo.com
Chapter 10 On the properties of skin in a (de)hydrated stage
Michal Żmijewski, GUMED Gdańsk; michal.zmijewski@gumed.edu.pl
Chapter 11 Plants partly devoid of water, and their characteristics
Stan Flasinski, BAYER US; stanislaw.flasinski@bayer.com, flasinskis@gmail.com
Chapter 12 On the percolation properties of soils, a case study
Karoly Bodnar and coworkers, Szarvas University; bodnar.karoly.lajos@gk.szie.hu
Chapter 13 A study on contaminated groundwater and its natural filtration
Beata Gorczyca, University of Manitoba; beata.gorczyca@umanitoba.ca
Chapter 14 Mushrooms containing reservoirs fed by certain (un)controllable amounts of water
Roman Rolbiecki and coworkers, UTP University of Science and Technology in Bydgoszcz; roman.rolbiecki@utp.edu.pl
About the Author: Adam Gadomski (born in 1959, in Katowice, Poland), a full professor of physics at the UTP University of Science and Technology, Bydgoszcz, Poland, leads a group of researchers focused on the modeling of physicochemical and biophysical processes. He specializes in statistical soft-condensed matter physics, and works in computational physics and physical computation problems, with an emphasis placed on biomaterials with a structure-property and function relationship. He is an editor for three open access journals: Frontiers-Computational Physics, Entropy and an associate editor for Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering. He is also an editor to numerous special issues publlished in Physica A, Biosystems (two times), Entropy, Molecules, etc. He published about 150 papers, mainly in reviewed international journals, and (co)authored chapters to the books and papers to journal proceedings.
