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SUBMITTER: Peng J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5760619 | biostudies-other | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Nature communications 20180109 1
Scanning probe microscopy has been extensively applied to probe interfacial water in many interdisciplinary fields but the disturbance of the probes on the hydrogen-bonding structure of water has remained an intractable problem. Here, we report submolecular-resolution imaging of the water clusters on a NaCl(001) surface within the nearly noninvasive region by a qPlus-based noncontact atomic force microscopy. Comparison with theoretical simulations reveals that the key lies in probing the weak hi ...[more]