Shui Yin Lo, PH.D., Physics, Water Research

Water is the source of life. This is acknowledged universally. Water are made up of water molecules. When water molecules get close together as in liquid, they tend to stick together to form water clusters.

The subject of water clusters have been a center of intense research by Professor Sakalay at UC Berkeley, Professor M Taylor of Yale University, and many others. The results are collected in beautiful color pictures by the Cambridge Data Group of Cambridge University , and Dr. Martin Chaplin of London South Bank University.

Dr. Lo has been on the path to study a particular kind of water clusters that are stable at room temperature and pressure for more than fifteen years. In the last two years Dr. Lo has worked intensely to detail the many extraordinary properties of these stable water clusters (SWC). For instance, these stable water clusters are proposed to have negative charge on one side and positive charge on the other side. The electric field of these SWC have now been measured. Their pictures were published recently in Physics Letter A October issue. Physics Letter is one of the most authoritative and prestigious journal in physics. It heralds the acceptance of scientific community of stable water clusters as possibly a major advance in our knowledge.

            In layman’s term Dr. Lo et al have discovered a new solid phase of water that is stable at normal room temperature and pressure. It is well known that water has three phases: solid, liquid, and gas. Ice is the solid phase of water, that melts at room temperature. However solid made up of these stable water clusters do not melt at room temperature, and in fact are quite stable even at temperature much higher than room temperature.
            Furthermore these stable water clusters are known to have many practical applications:
            One kind of stable water clusters can increase fuel efficiency of cars and trucks while at the same time reduces pollution.

            Another kind of stable water clusters, which is called double helix water, can improve health.
Dr. Lo has presented these results in three major conferences this year(2009):

Nanoscale VII Conference held at University of California, Santa Barbara, July 28-31, the opening address is by Professor Alan J. Heeger, Nobel laureate
Conference of the Physics, Chemistry and Biology of water at Vermont, organized by Professor Pollack of University of Washington
The 6th Joint Meeting of Chinese Physicists Worldwide OCPA 6, Lanzhou , China, Aug 3-7, 2009. OCPA boosts six Nobel laureates as its member, and Dr. Lo is one of the founding members of OCPA.

Later, Dr. Lo was invited to give seminars on stable water clusters and their applications at