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Square ice in a graphene sandwich

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Films of ice less than 1 nanometre thick, sandwiched between sheets of graphene, have been observed to adopt a square lattice structure quite different from the widely occurring hexagonal structure of bulk ice. See Letter p.443

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Figure 1: Liquid droplets captured between two sheets.

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  1. Alan K. Soper is at the ISIS Facility, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford, Didcot OX11 0QX, UK.,

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Soper, A. Square ice in a graphene sandwich. Nature 519, 417–418 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/519417a

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