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Caprini D, Battista F, Zajdel P, Di Muccio G, Guardiani C, Trump B, Carter M, Yakovenko AA, Amayuelas E, Bartolomé L, Meloni S, Grosu Y, Casciola CM, Giacomello A. Bubbles enable volumetric negative compressibility in metastable elastocapillary systems. Nat Commun 2024; 15:5076. [PMID: 38871721 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49136-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2023] [Accepted: 05/21/2024] [Indexed: 06/15/2024] Open
Abstract
Although coveted in applications, few materials expand when subject to compression or contract under decompression, i.e., exhibit negative compressibility. A key step to achieve such counterintuitive behaviour is the destabilisations of (meta)stable equilibria of the constituents. Here, we propose a simple strategy to obtain negative compressibility exploiting capillary forces both to precompress the elastic material and to release such precompression by a threshold phenomenon - the reversible formation of a bubble in a hydrophobic flexible cavity. We demonstrate that the solid part of such metastable elastocapillary systems displays negative compressibility across different scales: hydrophobic microporous materials, proteins, and millimetre-sized laminae. This concept is applicable to fields such as porous materials, biomolecules, sensors and may be easily extended to create unexpected material susceptibilities.
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Affiliation(s)
- Davide Caprini
- Center for Life Nano- & Neuro-Science, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Viale Regina Elena 291, Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Sapienza Università di Roma, Via Eudossiana 18, Rome, Italy
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- A. Chełkowski Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, ul 75 Pułku Piechoty 1, Chorzów, Poland
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Sapienza Università di Roma, Via Eudossiana 18, Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Sapienza Università di Roma, Via Eudossiana 18, Rome, Italy
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- Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
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- Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
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- X-Ray Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA
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- Centre for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Alava Technology Park, Albert Einstein 48, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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- Centre for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Alava Technology Park, Albert Einstein 48, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Via Luigi Borsari 46, Ferrara, Italy.
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- Centre for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Alava Technology Park, Albert Einstein 48, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
- Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland.
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Sapienza Università di Roma, Via Eudossiana 18, Rome, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Sapienza Università di Roma, Via Eudossiana 18, Rome, Italy.
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Johnson LJ, Mirani D, Le Donne A, Bartolomé L, Amayuelas E, López GA, Grancini G, Carter M, Yakovenko AA, Trump BA, Meloni S, Zajdel P, Grosu Y. Effect of Crystallite Size on the Flexibility and Negative Compressibility of Hydrophobic Metal-Organic Frameworks. NANO LETTERS 2023; 23:10682-10686. [PMID: 38033298 PMCID: PMC10722533 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2023] [Revised: 11/17/2023] [Accepted: 11/17/2023] [Indexed: 12/02/2023]
Abstract
Flexible nanoporous materials are of great interest for applications in many fields such as sensors, catalysis, material separation, and energy storage. Of these, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are the most explored thus far. However, tuning their flexibility for a particular application remains challenging. In this work, we explore the effect of the exogenous property of crystallite size on the flexibility of the ZIF-8 MOF. By subjecting hydrophobic ZIF-8 to hydrostatic compression with water, the flexibility of its empty framework and the giant negative compressibility it experiences during water intrusion were recorded via in operando synchrotron irradiation. It was observed that as the crystallite size is reduced to the nanoscale, both flexibility and the negative compressibility of the framework are reduced by ∼25% and ∼15%, respectively. These results pave the way for exogenous tuning of flexibility in MOFs without altering their chemistries.
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Affiliation(s)
- Liam J.
W. Johnson
- Centre
for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Vitoria-Gasteiz 01510, Spain
- Department
of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Barrio Sarriena s/n, Bilbao 48490, Leioa, Spain
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- Department
of Chemistry and INSTM University of Pavia Via Taramelli 14, Pavia I-27100, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche (DipSCF), Università degli Studi di Ferrara (Unife), Via Luigi Borsari 46, I-44121 Ferrara, Italy
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- Centre
for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Vitoria-Gasteiz 01510, Spain
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- Centre
for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Vitoria-Gasteiz 01510, Spain
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- Department
of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Barrio Sarriena s/n, Bilbao 48490, Leioa, Spain
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- Department
of Chemistry and INSTM University of Pavia Via Taramelli 14, Pavia I-27100, Italy
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- Center
for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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- X-Ray
Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Center
for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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- Dipartimento
di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche (DipSCF), Università degli Studi di Ferrara (Unife), Via Luigi Borsari 46, I-44121 Ferrara, Italy
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- Institute
of Physics, University of Silesia in Katowice, 75 Pulku Piechoty 1, 41-500 Chorzow, Poland
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- Centre
for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Vitoria-Gasteiz 01510, Spain
- Department
of Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, University
of Silesia, Szkolna 9, 40-006 Katowice, Poland
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Giacomello A. What keeps nanopores boiling. J Chem Phys 2023; 159:110902. [PMID: 37724724 DOI: 10.1063/5.0167530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2023] [Accepted: 08/29/2023] [Indexed: 09/21/2023] Open
Abstract
The liquid-to-vapor transition can occur under unexpected conditions in nanopores, opening the door to fundamental questions and new technologies. The physics of boiling in confinement is progressively introduced, starting from classical nucleation theory, passing through nanoscale effects, and terminating with the material and external parameters that affect the boiling conditions. The relevance of boiling in specific nanoconfined systems is discussed, focusing on heterogeneous lyophobic systems, chromatographic columns, and ion channels. The current level of control of boiling in nanopores enabled by microporous materials such as metal organic frameworks and biological nanopores paves the way to thrilling theoretical challenges and to new technological opportunities in the fields of energy, neuromorphic computing, and sensing.
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- Alberto Giacomello
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00184 Rome, Italy
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Sun C, McClure J, Berg S, Mostaghimi P, Armstrong RT. Universal description of wetting on multiscale surfaces using integral geometry. J Colloid Interface Sci 2021; 608:2330-2338. [PMID: 34774316 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2021.10.152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2021] [Revised: 10/11/2021] [Accepted: 10/25/2021] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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HYPOTHESIS Emerging energy-related technologies deal with multiscale hierarchical structures, intricate surface morphology, non-axisymmetric interfaces, and complex contact lines where wetting is difficult to quantify with classical methods. We hypothesise that a universal description of wetting on multiscale surfaces can be developed by using integral geometry coupled to thermodynamic laws. The proposed approach separates the different hierarchy levels of physical description from the thermodynamic description, allowing for a universal description of wetting on multiscale surfaces. THEORY AND SIMULATIONS The theoretical framework is presented followed by application to limiting cases of wetting on multiscale surfaces. Limiting cases include those considered in the Wenzel, Cassie-Baxter, and wicking state models. Wetting characterisation of multiscale surfaces is explored by conducting simulations of a fluid droplet on a structurally rough surface and a chemically heterogeneous surface. FINDINGS The underlying origin of the classical wetting models is shown to be rooted within the proposed theoretical framework. Integral geometry provides a topological-based wetting metric that is not contingent on any type of wetting state. The wetting metric is demonstrated to account for multiscale features along the common line in a scale consistent way; providing a universal description of wetting for multiscale surfaces.
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- Chenhao Sun
- State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources and Prospecting, China University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249, China
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- Advanced Research Computing, Virginia Tech, Wright House, W. Campus Drive, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
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- Shell Global Solutions International B.V., Grasweg 31, 1031 WG Amsterdam, Netherlands; Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science & Engineering and Chemical Engineering, Exhibition Rd, South Kensington, London SW7 2BX, United Kingdom
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- School of Minerals & Energy Resources Engineering, University of New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales 2052, Australia
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- School of Minerals & Energy Resources Engineering, University of New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales 2052, Australia.
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