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2007-04-26

Water Flows Like Molasses on the Nanoscale

"In effect, the confined water film behaves effectively like a solid in the vertical direction by forming layers parallel to the confining tip and surface, while maintaining its liquidity in the horizontal direction where it can flow out – resembling some phases of liquid crystals”

http://www.gatech.edu/news-room/release.php?id=1356

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