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SUBMITTER: Knight AW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6546746 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Knight Andrew W AW Kalugin Nikolai G NG Coker Eric E Ilgen Anastasia G AG
Scientific reports 20190603 1
Water is the universal solvent and plays a critical role in all known geological and biological processes. Confining water in nano-scale domains, as encountered in sedimentary rocks, in biological, and in engineered systems, leads to the deviations in water's physicochemical properties relative to those measured for the non-confined phase. In our comprehensive analysis, we demonstrate that nano-scale confinement leads to the decrease in the melting/freezing point temperature, density, and surfac ...[more]