Geim, Michaelides and Bocquet review nanoscale water: exotic phases and anomalous transport
_onionesque · x · 2026-11-03
A Perspective on arXiv, "Water at the molecular frontier," co-authored by Mischa Bonn, Andre Geim, Angelos Michaelides and Lyderic Bocquet.
- Most water that matters is not bulk water: it sits in nano/molecular confinement in cells, soils, rocks, filtration and desalination
- Confinement and interfacial forces produce behaviors absent in bulk water: exotic phases, anomalous transport, dielectric responses defying continuum expectations
- The field is converging via atomically precise nanofluidic devices, novel spectroscopy/microscopy, and machine-learning-accelerated simulations
- The authors argue these findings mark a genuine molecular regime of water where continuum descriptions must be rethought, with consequences from fundamental physics to water-tech design
More from Research
- Zyphra Introduces Hierarchical Attention, Claiming up to 400x Speedups at 1B-Token Contexts — teortaxesTex · 2026-11-03
- Commentary: Zyphra's ZHA Is Principled and 'Blows Secret Subquadratic Labs Out of the Water' — teortaxesTex · 2026-11-03
- Perplexity distills 9B embedding teacher into 0.6B model sharing the same embedding space — antoine_chaffin · 2026-11-03
- Prior contextual embedding training treats supporting-context chunks as negatives — antoine_chaffin · 2026-11-03
- Astra's Qwen weight edit was a published interpretability technique, not RSI — markjeffrey · 2026-11-03
- Yoav Goldberg: Astra's weight-editing feats are mostly known interpretability tricks — yoavgo · 2026-11-03