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Fabrication and Operation of a Nano-Optical Conveyor Belt
Published on: August 26, 2015
Nanoconfinement drives water ordering
Si-Ming Wu1, Paolo Fornasiero2, Xiao-Yu Yang1,3
1State Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architectures & State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, China.
National Science Review
|July 24, 2026
Abstract:
Direct probing of nanoconfined water reveals that confinement induces water ordering and enables a liquid-solid transition at room temperature, offering a new paradigm for water-dominated reactions.

