Dynamic solidification in nanoconfined water films.

Mechanical properties of nanoconfined water layers are still poorly understood and continue to create controversy, despite their importance for biology and nanotechnology. We report on dynamic nanomechanical measurements of water films compressed to a few single molecular layers. We show that the mechanical properties of nanoconfined water layers change significantly with their dynamic state. In particular, we observed a sharp transition from viscous to elastic response even at extremely slow compression rates, indicating that mechanical relaxation times increase dramatically once water is compressed to less than 3-4 molecular layers.

• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Physical Review Letters

• Publication date

  2010-06-16

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Materials Science, Physics

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  DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.106101arXiv 1006.3320PMID 20867530
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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