Ferroelectric mobile water.

@article{Nakamura2011FerroelectricMW,
  title={Ferroelectric mobile water.},
  author={Yoshimichi Nakamura and Takahisa Ohno},
  journal={Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP},
  year={2011},
  volume={13 3},
  pages={
          1064-9
        }
}
In molecular dynamics simulations single-domain ferroelectric water is produced under ordinary ambient conditions utilizing carbon nanotubes open to a water reservoir. This ferroelectric water diffuses while keeping its proton-ordered network intact. The mobile/immobile water transitions and the step-wise changes in net polarization of water are observed to occur spontaneously. The immobile water becomes mobile by transforming into the single-domain ferroelectric water. Our general notion of… 
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