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Title: Viscosity of Interfacial Water

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters

The effective shear viscosity and frequency-dependent dynamic oscillatory shear spectra of water containing monovalent or divalent ions (ionic strength 25mM), confined between mica crystals at 1--2 water molecules thickness, oscillated with twist angle with the period expected for the pseudohexagonal surface lattice. The effective viscosity varied by orders of magnitude as the twist angle was changed. Confinement appeared to imprint lateral spatial correlation on the ultrathin liquid, the more so the better the confining lattices were aligned, but the oft-proposed ''ice structure'' was not observed dynamically.

Sponsoring Organization:
(US)
DOE Contract Number:
FG-9645439
OSTI ID:
40277476
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 87, Issue 9; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.096104; Othernumber: PRLTAO000087000009096104000001; 035135PRL; PBD: 27 Aug 2001; ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
The American Physical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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