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Paniagua-Guerra LE, Gonzalez-Valle CU, Ramos-Alvarado B. Effects of the Interfacial Modeling Approach on Equilibrium Calculations of Slip Length for Nanoconfined Water in Carbon Slits. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2020; 36:14772-14781. [PMID: 33215929 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c02718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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In this investigation, equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations were conducted to assess the influence of the interface modeling approach on the calculation of hydrodynamic slip in carbon nanochannels. A Green-Kubo formalism was implemented for the calculation of the slip length in water confined by graphite layers. The nonbonded interactions between solid and liquid atoms (interface models) were modeled using parameters optimized to represent the wetting behavior and adsorption energy curves from electronic structure calculations. Conventional carbon-oxygen-only interaction models were compared against comprehensive models able to represent the molecular-orientation-dependent energy of interaction. Quasi-universal relationships built under the premise of the slip length dependence on the water-graphite affinity and characterized by macroscopic wettability were critically assessed. It was found that the wetting behavior cannot fully characterize the hydrodynamic slip because interface models that produced the same surface wettability yielded different values of the friction coefficient. Alternatively, the density depletion length, used to characterize the interfacial liquid structuring and the availability of momentum carriers (interfacial water molecules), was able to accurately represent the slip length trends independently of the interface model. These findings reassert the importance of physically sound interface models to study interfacial transport properties and the need of reliable parameters and characterization procedures to support theoretical models that seek to unveil the inconsistencies in hydrodynamic slip calculations.
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- Luis E Paniagua-Guerra
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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Ramos-Alvarado B. Water wettability of graphene and graphite, optimization of solid-liquid interaction force fields, and insights from mean-field modeling. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:114701. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5118888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Bladimir Ramos-Alvarado
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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Park J, Ryu J, Lee SJ. Penetration of a bubble through porous membranes with different wettabilities. SOFT MATTER 2019; 15:5819-5826. [PMID: 31184354 DOI: 10.1039/c9sm00754g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Porous structures with various surface wettabilities have been used to handle gas bubbles underwater for practical applications, such as separation, collection, detachment, and migration of the bubbles. Despite the increasing interest in porous structures, the effects of surface wettability on the behaviors of bubbles at porous surfaces have not been fully understood. Herein, we aim to examine the entire dynamics from collision to disappearance of a bubble through a porous membrane with different surface wettabilities. We divided the dynamics into three stages based on the characteristic behaviors such as bubble bouncing and contact line variation. Bubble dynamics is dominated by the existence of air layers covering the membrane surface. Bubbles on hydrophilic and hydrophobic membranes, which do not retain air layer, show the same removal pattern; they bounce on the surfaces, and then penetrate the membranes with pinned and moving contact line in sequence. In contrast, bubbles immediately penetrate the superhydrophobic membrane following the spread along the air layer. The characteristic time for bubble removal depends on the wettability, which affects the membrane permeability. The experimental characterization and theoretical analysis achieved in this work would improve the physical understanding of bubble dynamics on porous membranes and allow a proper design in bubble-related applications.
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- JooYoung Park
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, 77 Cheongam-Ro, Nam-Gu, Pohang, Gyeongbuk 37673, Korea.
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, 77 Cheongam-Ro, Nam-Gu, Pohang, Gyeongbuk 37673, Korea.
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, 77 Cheongam-Ro, Nam-Gu, Pohang, Gyeongbuk 37673, Korea.
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Bartali R, Lamberti A, Bianco S, Pirri CF, Tripathi M, Gottardi G, Speranza G, Iacob E, Pugno N, Laidani N. Graphene as Barrier to Prevent Volume Increment of Air Bubbles over Silicone Polymer in Aqueous Environment. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2017; 33:12865-12872. [PMID: 29043815 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b02915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The interaction of air bubbles with surfaces immersed in water is of fundamental importance in many fields of application ranging from energy to biology. However, many aspects of this topic such as the stability of surfaces in contact with bubbles remain unexplored. For this reason, in this work, we investigate the interaction of air bubbles with different kinds of dispersive surfaces immersed in water. The surfaces studied were polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), graphite, and single layer graphene/PDMS composite. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis allows determining the elemental surface composition, while Raman spectroscopy was used to assess the effectiveness of graphene monolayer transfer on PDMS. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) was used to study the surface modification of samples immersed in water. The surface wettability has been investigated by contact angle measurements, and the stability of the gas bubbles was determined by captive contact angle (CCA) measurements. CCA measurements show that the air bubble on graphite surface exhibits a stable behavior while, surprisingly, the volume of the air bubble on PDMS increases as a function of immersion time (bubble dynamic evolution). Indeed, the air bubble volume on the PDMS rises by increasing immersion time in water. The experimental results indicate that the dynamic evolution of air bubble in contact with PDMS is related to the rearrangement of surface polymer chains via the migration of the polar groups. On the contrary, when a graphene monolayer is present on PDMS, it acts as an absolute barrier suppressing the dynamic evolution of the bubble and preserving the optical transparency of PDMS.
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- Ruben Bartali
- Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Center for Materials and Microsystems , via Sommarive 18, 38123 Povo, Trento, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento , via Sommarive 14, 38123 Povo, Trento, Italy
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- Applied Science and Technology Department, Politecnico di Torino , Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, Turin IT-10129, Italy
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- Applied Science and Technology Department, Politecnico di Torino , Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, Turin IT-10129, Italy
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- Applied Science and Technology Department, Politecnico di Torino , Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, Turin IT-10129, Italy
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- Laboratory of Bio-Inspired and Graphene Nanomechanics, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento , 38123 Trento, Italy
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- Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Center for Materials and Microsystems , via Sommarive 18, 38123 Povo, Trento, Italy
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- Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Center for Materials and Microsystems , via Sommarive 18, 38123 Povo, Trento, Italy
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- Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Center for Materials and Microsystems , via Sommarive 18, 38123 Povo, Trento, Italy
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- Laboratory of Bio-Inspired and Graphene Nanomechanics, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento , 38123 Trento, Italy
- School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London , Mile End Road, E1 4NS London, United Kingdom
- Ket Lab, Edoardo Amaldi Foudation, Italian Space Agency , Via del Politecnico snc, 00133 Rome, Italy
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- Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Center for Materials and Microsystems , via Sommarive 18, 38123 Povo, Trento, Italy
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