Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

Dripplons as localized and superfast ripples of water confined between graphene sheets

  • Hiroaki Yoshida,
  • Vojtěch Kaiser,
  • Benjamin Rotenberg,
  • Lydéric Bocquet

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03829-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Water between two parallel solid plates can form mono-, bi-, or more layers. Here, the authors investigate the behavior of water confined between graphene sheets and find that the phase separation to mono- and bi-layer creates 2D droplets by bending the sheets which form ripples.