Reichert says that
such ultrathin layers of water are a common phenomenon, and understanding the behavior of HDL and LDL water may lead to insights into water's behavior in diverse situations, from ice skating to ion movement across biological cell walls.
A team led by physicists Norman Booth of the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, and Antonio Barone of the University of Naples, Italy, have constructed
such a transistor out of
ultrathin layers of superconductors, insulators, and normal metals.