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Water flows like molasses on the nanoscale

Posted April 25, 2007 9:51 AM

From EurekAlert! - Breaking News:

A Georgia Tech research team has discovered that water exhibits very different properties when it is confined to channels less than two nanometers wide -- behaving much like a viscous fluid with a viscosity approaching that of molasses. Determining the properties of water on the nanoscale may prove important for biological and pharmaceutical research as well as nanotechnology.

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Re: Water flows like molasses on the nanoscale

04/28/2007 4:41 AM

Ok, when a liquid flows over a solid, an interface "liquid" layer is always expected to keep sticked to the solid, so that the real flow is not at the liquid-solid interface but at the liquid- "liquid-sticked-to-solid" interface. Hence, it is quite reasonable that if the dimensions of the liquid in the direction perpendicular to the solid surface are reduced up to the molecular scale length, only (a) molecular layer(s) of the liquid sticked to the solid surface remains....but can a molecula-sized layer be considered a liquid?

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