Expérimental
When confined to nanometric scales, liquids can show a range of peculiar behaviors, such as molecular ordering, reduced friction leading to fast flow, change of their relaxation dynamics, etc.. All of these effects are intimately related to short-range interactions arising in the presence of the solid surfaces. However, our understanding of liquid matter at interfaces remains poorly understood, due to the lack of tools able to directly image the dynamics of liquid molecules at surfaces and in confinement. The idea of this internship is to develop novel experimental approaches to directly image in real space how single liquid molecules move close to solid surfaces, so far the exclusivity of molecular dynamics simulations!