Columbia engineers manipulate a buckyball by inserting a single water molecule
It will help solve a surface tension problem by understanding a single water molecule and see how it interacts with hydrogen bonds. "The important role of hydrogen bonds in the properties of water, like surface tension and viscosity, and the precise interactions between a single water molecule and hydrogen bonds, are still unclear," Chen notes, "so our new technique to isolate a single water molecule free from any hydrogen bonds provides an opportunity for answering these questions."
