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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 105, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.106101
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- National Science Foundation [DMR-0804283]
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0804283] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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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 nano-mechanical 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.
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