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Surface Induced Frustration of Inherent Dipolar Order in Nanoconfined Water
Sayantan Mondal, Saumyak Mukherjee, Biman Bagchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09809

Surface Induced Frustration of Inherent Dipolar Order in Nanoconfined Water
Surface effects could play a dominant role in modifying the natural liquid order. In some cases, the effects of the surface interactions can propagate inwards, and even can interfere with a similar propagation from opposite surfaces. This can be particularly evident in liquid water under nano-confinement. The large dipolar cross-correlations among distinct molecules that give rise to the unusually large dielectric constant of water (and in turn owe their origin to the extended hydrogen bond (HB…