New technique visualizes ebb, flow of water molecules

Whether you have or not, researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab have already asked and answered the question.

"The contact between water and anything is such an important topic, " said Berkeley Lab scientist Miquel Salmeron. "It's surprising that nowadays, in 2002, we still don't know much about how water is organized at the surface of a material."

The researchers, led by Salmeron, were…