The nature of the boundary between water and oil is crucial to many nanometre-scale assembly processes, including protein folding. But until now, what the interface really looks like remained in dispute.
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Chandler, D. Oil on troubled waters. Nature 445, 831–832 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/445831a
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