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Yang F, McQuain AD, Kumari A, Gundurao D, Liu H, Li L. Understanding the Intrinsic Water Wettability of Hexagonal Boron Nitride. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2024; 40:6445-6452. [PMID: 38483123 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c04035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/27/2024]
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The water wettability of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has attracted a lot of research interest in the past 15 years. Experimentally, the static water contact angle (WCA) has been widely utilized to characterize the intrinsic water wettability of hBN. In the current study, we have investigated the effect of airborne hydrocarbons and defects on both static and dynamic WCAs of hBN. Our results showed that the static WCA is impacted by defects, which suggests that previously reported static WCAs do not characterize the intrinsic water wettability of hBN since the state-of-the-art hBN samples always have relatively high defect density. Instead, we found that the advancing WCA of freshly exfoliated hBN is not affected by the defects and airborne hydrocarbons. As a result, the advancing WCA on freshly exfoliated hBN, determined to be 79 ± 3°, best represents the intrinsic water wettability of hBN. A qualitative model has been proposed to describe the effect of airborne hydrocarbons and defects on the static and dynamic WCA of hBN, which is well supported by the experimental results. The finding here has important implications for the water wettability of 2D materials.
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Affiliation(s)
- Fan Yang
- Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
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- Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, United States
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Luo S, Misra RP, Blankschtein D. Water Electric Field Induced Modulation of the Wetting of Hexagonal Boron Nitride: Insights from Multiscale Modeling of Many-Body Polarization. ACS NANO 2024; 18:1629-1646. [PMID: 38169482 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c09811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2024]
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Understanding the behavior of water contacting two-dimensional materials, such as hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), is important in practical applications, including seawater desalination and energy harvesting. Water, being a polar solvent, can strongly polarize the hBN surface via the electric fields that it generates. However, there is a lack of molecular-level understanding about the role of polarization effects at the hBN/water interface, including its effect on the wetting properties of water. In this study, we develop a theoretical framework that introduces an all-atomistic polarizable force field to accurately model the interactions of water molecules with hBN surfaces. The force field is then utilized to self-consistently describe the water-induced polarization of hBN using the classical Drude oscillator model, including predicting the hBN-water binding energies which are found to be in excellent agreement with diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) predictions. By carrying out molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, we demonstrate that the polarizable force field yields a water contact angle on multilayered hBN which is in close agreement with the recent experimentally reported values. Conversely, an implicit modeling of the hBN-water polarization energy utilizing a Lennard-Jones (LJ) potential, a commonly utilized approximation in previous MD simulation studies, leads to a considerably lower water contact angle. This difference in the predicted contact angles is attributed to the significant energy-entropy compensation resulting from the incorporation of polarization effects at the hBN-water interface. Our work highlights the importance of self-consistently modeling the hBN-water polarization energy and offers insights into the wetting-related interfacial phenomena of water on polarizable materials.
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- Shuang Luo
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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Hussain S, Zhou R, Li Y, Qian Z, Urooj Z, Younas M, Zhao Z, Zhang Q, Dong W, Wu Y, Zhu X, Wang K, Chen Y, Liu L, Xie L. Liquid Phase Edge Epitaxy of Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:11348-11355. [PMID: 37172002 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c02471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Precise monolayer epitaxy is important for two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors toward future electronics. Here, we report a new self-limited epitaxy approach, liquid phase edge epitaxy (LPEE), for precise-monolayer epitaxy of transition-metal dichalcogenides. In this method, the liquid solution contacts 2D grains only at the edges, which confines the epitaxy only at the grain edges and then precise monolayer epitaxy can be achieved. High-temperature in situ imaging of the epitaxy progress directly supports this edge-contact epitaxy mechanism. Typical transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayers (MX2, M = Mo, W, and Re; X = S or Se) have been obtained by LPEE with a proper choice of molten alkali halide solvents (AL, A = Li, Na, K, and Cs; L = Cl, Br, or I). Furthermore, alloying and magnetic-element doping have also been realized by taking advantage of the liquid phase epitaxy approach. This LPEE method provides a precise and highly versatile approach for 2D monolayer epitaxy and can revolutionize the growth of 2D materials toward electronic applications.
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- Sabir Hussain
- CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics and Molecular Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Ganjeh-Anzabi P, Jahandideh H, Kedzior SA, Trifkovic M. Precise quantification of nanoparticle surface free energy via colloidal probe atomic force microscopy. J Colloid Interface Sci 2023; 641:404-413. [PMID: 36940596 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2023.03.061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2022] [Revised: 02/01/2023] [Accepted: 03/09/2023] [Indexed: 03/17/2023]
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Interfacial interactions of nanoparticles (NPs) in colloids are greatly influenced by the NP surface free energy (SFE). Due to the intrinsic physical and chemical heterogeneity of the NP surface, measuring SFE is nontrivial. The use of direct force measurement methods, such as colloidal probe atomic force microscopy (CP-AFM), have been proven to be effective for the determination of SFE on relatively smooth surfaces, but fail to provide reliable measurements for rough surfaces generated by NPs. Here, we developed a reliable approach to determine the SFE of NPs by adopting Persson's contact theory to include the effect of surface roughness on the measurements in CP-AFM experiments. We obtain the SFE for a range of materials varying in surface roughness and surface chemistry. The reliability of the proposed method is verified by the SFE determination of polystyrene. Subsequently, the SFE of bare and functionalized silica, graphene oxide, and reduced graphene oxide were quantified and validity of the results was demonstrated. The presented method unlocks the potential of CP-AFM as a robust and reliable method of the SFE determination of nanoparticles with a heterogeneous surface, which is challenging to obtain with conventionally implemented experimental techniques.
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- Pejman Ganjeh-Anzabi
- Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada.
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- Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada.
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- Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada.
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- Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada.
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Zhang X, Cai X, Xie X, Pu C, Dong X, Jiang Z, Gao T, Ren Y, Hu J, Zhang X. Anisotropic Thermally Conductive Perfluoroalkoxy Composite with Low Dielectric Constant Fabricated by Aligning Boron Nitride Nanosheets via Hot Pressing. Polymers (Basel) 2019; 11:polym11101638. [PMID: 31658674 PMCID: PMC6835865 DOI: 10.3390/polym11101638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2019] [Revised: 09/28/2019] [Accepted: 09/29/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Thermal management has become a critical challenge in electronics and portable devices. To address this issue, polymer composites with high thermal conductivity (TC) and low dielectric property are urgently needed. In this work, we fabricated perfluoroalkoxy (PFA) composite with high anisotropic TC and low dielectric constant by aligning boron nitride nanosheets (BNNs) via hot pressing. We characterized the thermal stability, microstructure, in-plane and through-plane TCs, heat dissipation capability, and dielectric property of the composites. The results indicate that the BNNs–PFA composites possessed good thermal stability. When the BNNs content was higher than 10 wt %, the BNNs were well layer aligned in the PFA matrix, and the composites showed obvious anisotropic TC. The in-plane TC and through-plane TCs of 30 wt % BNNs–PFA composite were 4.65 and 1.94 W m−1 K−1, respectively. By using the composite in thermal management of high-power LED, we found that alignment of BNNs in composite significantly improves the heat dissipation capability of composite. In addition, the composites exhibited a low dielectric property. This study shows that hot pressing is a facile and low-cost method to fabricate bulk composite with anisotropic TC, which has wide applications in electronic packaging.
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- Xinru Zhang
- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Beijing 100083, China.
- Beijing Engineering Research Center of Energy Saving and Environmental Protection, University of Science and Technology, Beijing 100083, China.
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Beijing 100083, China.
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Beijing 100083, China.
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Beijing 100083, China.
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Beijing 100083, China.
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Beijing 100083, China.
- Beijing Key Laboratory for Energy Saving and Emission Reduction of Metallurgical Industry, University of Science and Technology, Beijing 100083, China.
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Beijing 100083, China.
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- China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group, Beijing 100082, China.
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- China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group, National Machinery United Electric Power (Ningxia) Co., Ltd., Yinchuan 750011, China.
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Beijing 100083, China.
- Beijing Key Laboratory for Energy Saving and Emission Reduction of Metallurgical Industry, University of Science and Technology, Beijing 100083, China.
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Zhang X, Xie X, Cai X, Jiang Z, Gao T, Ren Y, Hu J, Zhang X. Graphene-Perfluoroalkoxy Nanocomposite with High Through-Plane Thermal Conductivity Fabricated by Hot-Pressing. NANOMATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2019; 9:E1320. [PMID: 31540151 PMCID: PMC6781095 DOI: 10.3390/nano9091320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2019] [Revised: 08/25/2019] [Accepted: 09/04/2019] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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With the rapid development of electronics and portable devices, polymer nanocomposites with high through-plane thermal conductivity (TC) are urgently needed. In this work, we fabricated graphene nanosheets-perfluoroalkoxy (GNs-PFA) composite sheets with high through-plane TCs via hot-pressing followed by mechanical machining. When the GNs content exceeded 10 wt%, GNs were vertically aligned in the PFA matrix, and the through-plane TCs of nanocomposites were 10-15 times higher than their in-plane TCs. In particular, the composite with 30 wt% GNs exhibited a through-plane TC of 25.57 W/(m·K), which was 9700% higher than that of pure PFA. The composite with 30 wt% GNs was attached to the surface of a high-power light-emitting diode (LED) to assess its heat-dissipation capability. The composite with vertically aligned GNs lowered the LED surface temperature by approximately 16 °C compared with pure PFA. Our facile, low-cost method allows for the large-scale production of GNs-PFA nanocomposites with high through-plane TCs, which can be used in various thermal-management applications.
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- Xinru Zhang
- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
- Beijing Engineering Research Center of Energy Saving and Environmental Protection, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China.
- Beijing Key Laboratory for Energy Saving and Emission Reduction of Metallurgical Industry, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China.
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group, Beijing 100082, China
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- China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group National Machinery United Electric Power (Ningxia) Co., Ltd., Yinchuan 750011, China
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
- Beijing Key Laboratory for Energy Saving and Emission Reduction of Metallurgical Industry, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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