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Water’s hydrogen-bond structure under a new microscope
Water is the most abundant liquid on Earth. Essential for life, it is part of nearly every single biological, geological and chemical process. The structure and dynamics of the hydrogen-bonding network in water remains under study. The EU-funded AngstroCAP project will develop new capillary devices to investigate the structure and dynamics of water. These devices are in a lab-on-a-chip type configuration with angstrom-scale channels and atomically smooth walls. The project will assemble capillaries of a few microns in length, by sandwiching two blocks of layered crystals, separated by an atomically thin 2D-crystal spacer. Inside these channels, researchers will image water condensation along with simultaneous structure analysis by spectroscopy under in-situ (temperature, pressure) environments.
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ERC-STG - Starting GrantHost institution
M13 9PL Manchester
United Kingdom
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M13 9PL Manchester
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