# Quantifying hydrogen bonding using electrically tunable nanoconfined water

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58608-6

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2025-04-15

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## Title

- title: Quantifying hydrogen bonding using electrically tunable nanoconfined water
  title_type: original
  lang: en

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- description: Unique properties of water in liquid and solid phases are largely attributed
    to hydrogen bonding (HB)1. Traditional analysis of HB typically involves vibrational
    spectroscopy, where shift of the stretching frequency of covalent O-H bond correlates
    with the strength of HB2. However, the underlying mechanisms of this phenomenon
    are still debated3-5. Here we introduce a simple approximation based on an elastic
    dipole in external electric field, which captures a wide range of phenomena regarding
    HB in water systems. To this end, we use gypsum, with crystalline water embedded
    in heterostructure, to calibrate the HB strength through externally applied electric
    field. Our approach provided a coherent description on both HB and dielectric
    behaviour of nanoconfined water reported in the literature. In particular, it
    quantitatively reproduces the properties of confined water in various systems,
    rationalising behaviour like the reduced static permittivity observed in nanoconfined
    water6,7, enhancing our understanding of the importance of confined water in biological
    and technological systems. Finally, our work introduces hydrogen bond heterostructures
    (HBHs) as a new class of materials, offering electrical and chemical tunability,
    and a stronger, more directional bonding than that of van der Waals heterostructures.
  description_type: abstract
  lang: und

## Creator

- name: Ziwei Wang
  role: author
- name: Anupam Bhattacharya
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- name: Mehmet Yagmurcukardes
  role: author
- name: Vasyl Kravets
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- name: Pablo Díaz-Núñez
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- name: Ciaran Mullan
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- name: Ivan Timokhin
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- name: Takashi Taniguchi
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  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1467-3105
  organization: National Institute for Materials Science
- name: Kenji Watanabe
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3701-8119
  organization: National Institute for Materials Science
- name: Alexander N. Grigorenko
  role: author
- name: Francois Peeters
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- name: Kostya S. Novoselov
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- name: Qian Yang
  role: author
- name: Artem Mishchenko
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organization: Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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## Keyword

- subject: hydrogen bonding
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- subject: 'nanoconfined water
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- subject: electric field tuning
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## Rights

- identifier: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
  date_licensed: 2025-04-15

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## Journal

- title: Nature Communications
  issn: '20411723'
  volume: '16'
  issue: '1'
  article_number: '3447'

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