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Zhang X, Liu X, Liu Q, Feng Y, Qiu S, Wang T, Xu H, Li H, Yin L, Kang H, Fan Z. Reversible Constrained Dissociation and Reassembly of MXene Films. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2024; 11:e2309171. [PMID: 38582527 PMCID: PMC11186054 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202309171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2023] [Revised: 02/08/2024] [Indexed: 04/08/2024]
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Enabling materials to undergo reversible dynamic transformations akin to the behaviors of living organisms represents a critical challenge in the field of material assembly. The pursuit of such capabilities using conventional materials has largely been met with limited success. Herein, the discovery of reversible constrained dissociation and reconfiguration in MXene films, offering an effective solution to overcome this obstacle is reported. Specifically, MXene films permit rapid intercalation of water molecules between their distinctive layers, resulting in a significant expansion and exhibiting confined dissociation within constrained spaces. Meanwhile, the process of capillary compression driven by water evaporation reinstates the dissociated MXene film to its original compact state. Further, the adhesive properties emerging from the confined disassociation of MXene films can spontaneously induce fusion between separate films. Utilizing this attribute, complex structures of MXene films can be effortlessly foamed and interlayer porosity precisely controlled, using only water as the inducer. Additionally, a parallel phenomenon has been identified in graphene oxide films. This work not only provides fresh insights into the microscopic mechanisms of 2D materials such as MXene but also paves a transformative path for their macroscopic assembly applications in the future.
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- Xuefeng Zhang
- School of chemistry and Materials EngineeringGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory for Electronic Functional Materials and DevicesHuizhou UniversityHuizhou516007China
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- School of Materials Science and EngineeringHarbin Institute of TechnologyHarbin150001China
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- School of chemistry and Materials EngineeringGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory for Electronic Functional Materials and DevicesHuizhou UniversityHuizhou516007China
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- School of chemistry and Materials EngineeringGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory for Electronic Functional Materials and DevicesHuizhou UniversityHuizhou516007China
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- School of chemistry and Materials EngineeringGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory for Electronic Functional Materials and DevicesHuizhou UniversityHuizhou516007China
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- School of chemistry and Materials EngineeringGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory for Electronic Functional Materials and DevicesHuizhou UniversityHuizhou516007China
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- School of chemistry and Materials EngineeringGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory for Electronic Functional Materials and DevicesHuizhou UniversityHuizhou516007China
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- School of chemistry and Materials EngineeringGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory for Electronic Functional Materials and DevicesHuizhou UniversityHuizhou516007China
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- MIIT Key Laboratory of Critical Materials Technology for New Energy Conversion and StorageSchool of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringHarbin Institute of TechnologyHarbin150001China
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- Advanced Materials ThrustThe Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)Guangzhou510000China
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- School of Materials Science and EngineeringHarbin Institute of TechnologyHarbin150001China
- MIIT Key Laboratory of Critical Materials Technology for New Energy Conversion and StorageSchool of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringHarbin Institute of TechnologyHarbin150001China
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Konradt D, Schroden D, Hagemann U, Heidelmann M, Rohns HP, Wagner C, Konradt N. Kinetics of Direct Reaction of Vanadate, Chromate, and Permanganate with Graphene Nanoplatelets for Use in Water Purification. NANOMATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 14:140. [PMID: 38251105 PMCID: PMC10819118 DOI: 10.3390/nano14020140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2023] [Revised: 12/28/2023] [Accepted: 12/29/2023] [Indexed: 01/23/2024]
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Oxometalates of vanadium(V), chromium(VI), and manganese(VII) have negative impacts on water resources due to their toxicity. To remove them, the kinetics of 0.04 mM oxometalates in natural and synthetic water were studied using graphene nanoplatelets (GNP). The GNP were dispersible in water and formed aggregates >15 µm that could be easily separated. Within 30 min, the GNP were covered with ~0.4 mg/g vanadium and ~1.0 mg/g chromium as Cr(OH)3. The reaction of 0.04 mM permanganate with 50 mg of GNP resulted in a coverage of 10 mg/g in 5 min, while the maximum value was 300 mg/g manganese as Mn2O3/MnO. TEM showed a random metal distribution on the surfaces; no clusters or nanoparticles were detected. The rate of disappearance in aerated water followed a pseudo second-order adsorption kinetics (PSO) for V(V), a pseudo second-order reaction for Cr(VI), and a pseudo first-order reaction for Mn(VII). For Cr(VI) and Mn(VII), the rate constants were found to depend on the GNP mass. Oxygen sorption occurred with PSO kinetics as a parallel slow process upon contact of GNP with air-saturated water. For thermally regenerated GNP, the rate constant decreased for V(V) but increased for Cr(VI), while no effect was observed for Mn(VII). GNP capacity was enhanced through regeneration for V(V) and Cr(VI); no effect was observed for Mn(VII). The reactions are well-suited for use in water purification processes and the reaction products, GNP, decorated with single metal atoms, are of great interest for the construction of sensors, electronic devices, and for application in single-atom catalysis (SAC).
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- Daniel Konradt
- Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Fakultät für Maschinenbau und Fakultät für Chemie und Biochemie, Universitätsstraße 150, 44801 Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Waterworks, Stadtwerke Düsseldorf AG, Wiedfeld 50, 40589 Düsseldorf, Germany; (D.S.); (H.-P.R.); (C.W.)
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- ICAN, NETZ Building, Carl-Benz-Straße 199, 47057 Duisburg, Germany; (U.H.); (M.H.)
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- ICAN, NETZ Building, Carl-Benz-Straße 199, 47057 Duisburg, Germany; (U.H.); (M.H.)
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- Department of Waterworks, Stadtwerke Düsseldorf AG, Wiedfeld 50, 40589 Düsseldorf, Germany; (D.S.); (H.-P.R.); (C.W.)
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- Department of Waterworks, Stadtwerke Düsseldorf AG, Wiedfeld 50, 40589 Düsseldorf, Germany; (D.S.); (H.-P.R.); (C.W.)
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- Department of Waterworks, Stadtwerke Düsseldorf AG, Wiedfeld 50, 40589 Düsseldorf, Germany; (D.S.); (H.-P.R.); (C.W.)
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Serdaroğlu G, Kariper IA, Kariper SEB. Molecular modeling study on the water-electrode surface interaction in hydrovoltaic energy. Sci Rep 2023; 13:12803. [PMID: 37550420 PMCID: PMC10406928 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-39888-8] [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: 02/14/2023] [Accepted: 07/05/2023] [Indexed: 08/09/2023] Open
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The global energy problem caused by the decrease in fossil fuel sources, which have negative effects on human health and the environment, has made it necessary to research alternative energy sources. Renewable energy sources are more advantageous than fossil fuels because they are unlimited in quantity, do not cause great harm to the environment, are safe, and create economic value by reducing foreign dependency because they are obtained from natural resources. With nanotechnology, which enables the development of different technologies to meet energy needs, low-cost and environmentally friendly systems with high energy conversion efficiency are developed. Renewable energy production studies have focused on the development of hydrovoltaic technologies, in which electrical energy is produced by making use of the evaporation of natural water, which is the most abundant in the world. By using nanomaterials such as graphene, carbon nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes, and conductive polymers, hydrovoltaic technology provides systems with high energy conversion performance and low cost, which can directly convert the thermal energy resulting from the evaporation of water into electrical energy. The effect of the presence of water on the generation of energy via the interactions between the ion(s) and the liquid-solid surface can be enlightened by the mechanism of the hydovoltaic effect. Here, we simply try to get some tricky information underlying the hydrovoltaic effect by using DFT/B3LYP/6-311G(d, p) computations. Namely, the physicochemical and electronic properties of the graphene surface with a water molecule were investigated, and how/how much these quantities (or parameters) changed in case of the water molecule contained an equal number of charges were analyzed. In these computations, an excess of both positive charge and negative charge, and also a neutral environment was considered by using the Na+, Cl-, and NaCl salt, respectively.
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- Goncagül Serdaroğlu
- Mathematics and Science Education, Faculty of Education, Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey
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- Education Faculty, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey
- Erciyes Teknopark, Building 1, No. 41, Kayseri, Turkey
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Tsai MH, Lu YX, Lin CY, Lin CH, Wang CC, Chu CM, Woon WY, Lin CT. The First-Water-Layer Evolution at the Graphene/Water Interface under Different Electro-Modulated Hydrophilic Conditions Observed by Suspended/Supported Field-Effect-Device Architectures. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2023; 15:17019-17028. [PMID: 36947433 PMCID: PMC10080535 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c00037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2023] [Accepted: 03/10/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Interfacial water molecules affect carrier transportation within graphene and related applications. Without proper tools, however, most of the previous works focus on simulation modeling rather than experimental validation. To overcome this obstacle, a series of graphene field-effect transistors (GFETs) with suspended (substrate-free, SF) and supported (oxide-supported, OS) configurations are developed to investigate the graphene-water interface under different hydrophilic conditions. With deionized water environments, in our experiments, the electrical transportation behaviors of the graphene mainly originate from the evolution of the interfacial water-molecule arrangement. Also, these current-voltage behaviors can be used to elucidate the first-water layer at the graphene-water interface. For SF-GFET, our experimental results show positive hysteresis in electrical transportation. These imply highly ordered interfacial water molecules with a separated-ionic distributed structure. For OS-GFET, on the contrary, the negative hysteresis shows the formation of the hydrogen-bond interaction between the interfacial water layer and the SiO2 substrate under the graphene. This interaction further promotes current conduction through the graphene/water interface. In addition, the net current-voltage relationship also indicates the energy required to change the orientation of the first-layer water molecules during electro-potential change. Therefore, our work gives an insight into graphene-water interfacial evolution with field-effect modulation. Furthermore, this experimental architecture also paves the way for investigating 2D solid-liquid interfacial features.
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- Ming-Hsiu Tsai
- Graduate
Institute of Electronics Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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- Graduate
Institute of Electronics Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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- Graduate
Institute of Electronics Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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- Graduate
Institute of Electronics Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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- Graduate
Institute of Electronics Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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- Department
of Physics, National Central University, Jungli 32054, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department
of Physics, National Central University, Jungli 32054, Taiwan, ROC
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- Graduate
Institute of Electronics Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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Gong L, Wu F, Yang W, Huang C, Li W, Wang X, Wang J, Tang T, Zeng H. Unraveling the hydrophobic interaction mechanisms of hydrocarbon and fluorinated surfaces. J Colloid Interface Sci 2023; 635:273-283. [PMID: 36587579 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2022.12.084] [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: 10/18/2022] [Revised: 12/15/2022] [Accepted: 12/18/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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HYPOTHESIS Numerous hydrocarbon and fluorine-based hydrophobic surfaces have been widely applied in various engineering and bioengineering fields. It is hypothesized that the hydrophobic interactions of hydrocarbon and fluorinated surfaces in aqueous media would show some differences. EXPERIMENTS The hydrophobic interactions of hydrocarbon and fluorinated surfaces with air bubbles in aqueous solutions have been systematically and quantitatively measured using a bubble probe atomic force microscopy (AFM) technique. Ethanol was introduced to water for modulating the solution polarity. The experimental force profiles were analyzed using a theoretical model combining the Reynolds lubrication theory and augmented Young-Laplace equation by including disjoining pressure arisen from the Derjarguin-Landau-Verwey-Overbeek (DLVO) and non-DLVO interactions (i.e., hydrophobic interactions). FINDINGS The experiment results show that the hydrophobic interactions were firstly weakened and then strengthened by increasing ethanol content in the aqueous media, mainly due to the variation in interfacial hydrogen bonding network. The fluorinated surface exhibited less sensitivity to ethanol than hydrocarbon surface, which is attributed to the presence of ordered interfacial water layer. Our work reveals the different hydrophobic effects of hydrocarbon and fluorinated surfaces, with useful implications on modulating the interfacial interactions of relevant materials in various engineering and bioengineering applications.
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- Lu Gong
- Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1H9, Canada
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- Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1H9, Canada
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- Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1H9, Canada
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- Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1H9, Canada
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- Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1H9, Canada
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- Heavy Machinery Engineering Research Center of Education Ministry, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China
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- Heavy Machinery Engineering Research Center of Education Ministry, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1H9, Canada
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- Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1H9, Canada.
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Hydrogen Bonding to Graphene Surface: A Comparative Computational Study. Inorganica Chim Acta 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ica.2023.121454] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/07/2023]
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Garcia R. Interfacial Liquid Water on Graphite, Graphene, and 2D Materials. ACS NANO 2023; 17:51-69. [PMID: 36507725 PMCID: PMC10664075 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c10215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2022] [Accepted: 12/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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The optical, electronic, and mechanical properties of graphite, few-layer, and two-dimensional (2D) materials have prompted a considerable number of applications. Biosensing, energy storage, and water desalination illustrate applications that require a molecular-scale understanding of the interfacial water structure on 2D materials. This review introduces the most recent experimental and theoretical advances on the structure of interfacial liquid water on graphite-like and 2D materials surfaces. On pristine conditions, atomic-scale resolution experiments revealed the existence of 1-3 hydration layers. Those layers were separated by ∼0.3 nm. The experimental data were supported by molecular dynamics simulations. However, under standard working conditions, atomic-scale resolution experiments revealed the presence of 2-3 hydrocarbon layers. Those layers were separated by ∼0.5 nm. Linear alkanes were the dominant molecular specie within the hydrocarbon layers. Paradoxically, the interface of an aged 2D material surface immersed in water does not have water molecules on its vicinity. Free-energy considerations favored the replacement of water by alkanes.
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- Ricardo Garcia
- Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales
de Madrid, CSIC, c/Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 3, 28049Madrid, Spain
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Chen L, Maqbool T, Fu W, Yang Y, Hou C, Guo J, Zhang X. Highly efficient manganese (III) oxide submerged catalytic ceramic membrane for nonradical degradation of emerging organic compounds. Sep Purif Technol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2022.121272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Si W, Zhu Z, Wu G, Zhang Y, Chen Y, Sha J. Encoding Manipulation of DNA-Nanoparticle Assembled Nanorobot Using Independently Charged Array Nanopores. SMALL METHODS 2022; 6:e2200318. [PMID: 35656741 DOI: 10.1002/smtd.202200318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2022] [Revised: 05/05/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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During the past decades, scientists have developed different kinds of nanorobots based on various driving principles to realize controlled manipulation of them for potential applications like medical diagnosis and directed cargo delivery. In order to design a nanorobot with advantages of simple operation and precise control that can enrich the family of intelligent nanorobots, an encoding manipulation method is proposed to control the movement of a DNA-nanoparticle assembled nanorobot by combing electrophoresis and electroosmosis effect in independently charged array nanopores. The nanorobot is composed of one nanoparticle and one or two ssDNAs. ssDNAs act as the legs of the nanorobot. The selective ion transport through charged nanopores can induce cooperation and competition between the electroosmosis and electrophoresis, which is the main power to activate the nanorobot. Thus by simply switching the applied electric field and surface charge density of each nanopore which is defined as the encoded nanopore according to a predetermined strategy, the well-controlled encoding manipulation including capturing, releasing, jumping, and crawling of the nanorobot is realized in this work. The study is expected to realize its value in many interesting applications like drug delivery, nanosurgery, and so on in the near future.
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- Wei Si
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Design and Manufacture of Micro-Nano Biomedical Instruments, School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211100, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Design and Manufacture of Micro-Nano Biomedical Instruments, School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211100, China
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- School of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Design and Manufacture of Micro-Nano Biomedical Instruments, School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211100, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Design and Manufacture of Micro-Nano Biomedical Instruments, School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211100, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Design and Manufacture of Micro-Nano Biomedical Instruments, School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211100, China
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Molecular dynamics of the interfacial solution structure of alkali-halide electrolytes at graphene electrodes. J Mol Liq 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2022.118776] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Moulod M, Moghaddam S. High Directional Water Transport Graphene Oxide Biphilic Stack. MOLECULAR SIMULATION 2022; 48:621-630. [PMID: 36060446 PMCID: PMC9435866 DOI: 10.1080/08927022.2022.2042529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Understanding the nature of water transport in nanoscale is of high importance. Graphene properties such as mass flow rate, stability, filtration efficiency, and selectivity have been studied in various fields. It is a widely held view that the hydrophilicity of graphene oxide enhances the water transport properties. In this study, it is shown that despite this belief, a combination of graphene and graphene oxide can yield superior transport properties including high mass flow rate and directionality. Firstly, different membrane characteristics such as the smallest pore diameter for water molecules sieving and mass flow rate have been evaluated. Furthermore, a combination of graphene and graphene oxide, a biphilic stack of hydrophobic and hydrophilic layers, are used to evaluate the mass flow rates and results are compared with that of normal graphene oxide laminates. The proposed structure acts like a water diode i.e. conduct water molecules in a desired direction and increases the mass flow rate several times. The effect of interatomic potential, oxidation level and charge, and the spacing between layers on both mass flow rate and directionality are examined. It is found that an optimized structure conducts water in a desired direction and increases the mass flow rate up to 10 times for the small interlayer distance of 7 Å compared to the normal graphene oxide laminates. The given structures can be used in a wide range of filtration applications where selective water sieving with high mass flow rate is desired.
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- Mohammad Moulod
- Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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Takamatsu H, Ohba T. Water Adsorption Control by Surface Nanostructures on Graphene-Related Materials by Grand Canonical Monte Carlo Simulations. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2021; 37:14646-14656. [PMID: 34865483 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c02372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The interfaces of carbon materials play an important role in various technological and scientific research fields. Graphene is the fundamental unit of sp2 carbon allotropes, and the evaluation of the interfacial properties of graphene-related materials is thus essential to clarify the molecular mechanisms occurring at the interfaces. Ideally, graphene is exclusively composed of sp2 carbon atoms; however, some parts of graphene normally contain sp3 carbon atoms with oxygen functional groups, vacancy, and grain boundary defects, and these structural characteristics need to be considered to reveal the interfacial properties. Herein, we demonstrate the interfacial properties of graphene-related materials by analyzing the water adsorption properties of graphene, hydrogenated graphene (graphane), and partially oxidized graphene (named as graphoxide) using grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations. The hydrophobicity evaluated from the simulated water adsorption isotherms followed the order: graphane > graphene > graphoxide with 1% oxygen atomic ratio > graphoxide with 3% oxygen atomic ratio > graphoxide with 5% oxygen atomic ratio. The potential calculations between a single water molecule and graphoxides revealed that the presence of oxygen functional groups enhanced the hydrophilicity of graphoxide. This study also disclosed some differences between the hydrophobic interfaces of graphene and graphane, which have been rarely evaluated. Surprisingly, the hydrophobicity of graphane was higher than that of graphene despite the similar potential well depths between a water molecule and graphene/graphane. This was caused by the restriction of water orientation on graphane; water was preferentially adsorbed on the honeycomb center or concave sites in the initial adsorption, and it was hard to interact with neighboring water molecules. The different structures revealed for the graphene-related materials with nanoscale roughness played important roles in controlling the water vapor adsorption mechanism.
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- Hiroki Takamatsu
- Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi, Inage, Chiba 263-8522, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi, Inage, Chiba 263-8522, Japan
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Seki R, Takamatsu H, Suzuki Y, Oya Y, Ohba T. Hydrophobic-to-hydrophilic affinity change of sub-monolayer water molecules at water–graphene interfaces. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2021.127393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Ghoufi A, Malfreyt P. Interfacial tension of the graphene–water solid–liquid interface: how to handle the electrostatic interactions? Mol Phys 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2021.1948121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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- Aziz Ghoufi
- Institut de Physique de Rennes (IPR) – UMR 6251, Université Rennes, CNRS, Rennes, France
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- Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Zhang J, Tan J, Pei R, Ye S, Luo Y. Ordered Water Layer on the Macroscopically Hydrophobic Fluorinated Polymer Surface and Its Ultrafast Vibrational Dynamics. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:13074-13081. [PMID: 34384210 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c03581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Hydrophobic-like water monolayers have been predicted at the metal and some polar surfaces by theoretical simulations. However, direct experimental evidence for the presence of this water layer at surfaces, particularly at biomolecule and polymer surfaces, is yet to be validated at room temperature. Here we observe experimentally that an ordered molecular water layer is present at the hydrophobic fluorinated polymer such as polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) surface by using sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy. The macroscopic hydrophobicity of PTFE surface is actually hydrophilic at the molecular level. The macroscopically hydrophobic character of PTFE is indeed resulting from the hydrophobicity of the ordered two-dimension (2D) water layer, in which cyclic water tetramer structure is found. The water layer at humidity of ≤40% has a vibrational relaxation time of 550 ± 60 fs. The vibrational relaxation time in the frequency range of 3200-3400 cm-1 shows remarkable difference from the interfacial water at the air/H2O interface and the lipid/H2O interface. No discernible frequency dependence of the vibrational relaxation time is observed, indicating the homogeneous dynamics of OH groups in the water layer. These insights into the water layer at the macroscopically hydrophobic surface may contribute to a better understanding of the hydrophobic interaction and interfacial water dynamics.
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- Jiahui Zhang
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Department of Chemical Physics, and Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information & Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Department of Chemical Physics, and Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information & Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Department of Chemical Physics, and Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information & Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Department of Chemical Physics, and Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information & Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Department of Chemical Physics, and Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information & Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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Uhlig M, Garcia R. In Situ Atomic-Scale Imaging of Interfacial Water under 3D Nanoscale Confinement. NANO LETTERS 2021; 21:5593-5598. [PMID: 33983752 PMCID: PMC9135320 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c01092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Capillary condensation of water from vapor is an everyday phenomenon which has a wide range of scientific and technological implications. Many aspects of capillary condensation are not well understood such as the structure of interfacial water, the existence of distinct properties of confined water, or the validity of the Kelvin equation at nanoscale. We note the absence of high-spatial resolution images inside a meniscus. Here, we develop an AFM-based method to provide in situ atomic-scale resolution maps of the solid-water interface of a nanomeniscus (80-250 nm3). The separation between the first two hydration layers on graphite is 0.30 nm, while on mica it is 0.28 nm. Those values are very close to the ones expected for the same surfaces immersed in bulk water. Thus, the hydration layer structure on a crystalline surface is independent of the water volume.
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Majumdar J, Moid M, Dasgupta C, Maiti PK. Dielectric Profile and Electromelting of a Monolayer of Water Confined in Graphene Slit Pore. J Phys Chem B 2021; 125:6670-6680. [PMID: 34107687 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c02266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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A monolayer of water confined between two parallel graphene sheets exists in many different phases and exhibits fascinating dielectric properties that have been studied in experiments. In this work, we use molecular dynamics simulations to study how the dielectric properties of a confined monolayer of water is affected by its structure. We consider six of the popular nonpolarizable water models-SPC/E, SPC/Fw, TIP3P, TIP3P_M (modified), TIP4P-2005, and TIP4P-2005f-and find that the in-plane structure of the water molecules at ambient temperature and pressure is strongly dependent on the water model: all the 3-point water models considered here show square ice formation, whereas no such structural ordering is observed for the 4-point water models. This allows us to investigate the role of the in-plane structure of the water monolayer on its dielectric profile. Our simulations show an anomalous perpendicular dielectric constant compared to the bulk, and the models that do not exhibit ice formation show very different dielectric response along the channel width compared to models that exhibit square ice formation. We also demonstrate the occurrence of electromelting of the in-plane ordered water under the application of a perpendicular electric field and find that the critical field for electromelting strongly depends on the water model. Together, we have shown the dependence of confined water properties on the different water structures that it may take when sandwiched between bilayer graphene. These remarkable properties of confined water can be exploited in various nanofluidic devices, artificial ion channels, and molecular sieving.
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- Jeet Majumdar
- Centre for Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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- Centre for Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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- Centre for Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India.,International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore 560089, India
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- Centre for Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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Pham TT, Pham TN, Chihaia V, Vu QA, Trinh TT, Pham TT, Van Thang L, Son DN. How do the doping concentrations of N and B in graphene modify the water adsorption? RSC Adv 2021; 11:19560-19568. [PMID: 35479230 PMCID: PMC9033564 DOI: 10.1039/d1ra01506k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2021] [Accepted: 05/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Understanding the interaction of water and graphene is crucial for various applications such as water purification, desalination, and electrocatalysis. Experimental and theoretical studies have already investigated water adsorption on N- and B-doped graphene. However, there are no reports available that elucidate the influences of the N and B doping content in graphene on the microscopic geometrical structure and the electronic properties of the adsorbed water. Thus, this work is devoted to solving this problem using self-consistent van der Waals density functional theory calculations. The N and B doping contents of 0.0, 3.1, 6.3, and 9.4% were considered. The results showed that the binding energy of water increases almost linearly as a function of doping content at all concentrations for N-doped graphene but below 6.3% for B-doped graphene. In the linear range, the binding energy increases by approximately 30 meV for each increment of the doping ratio. Analyses of the geometric and electronic structures explained the enhancement of the water-graphene interaction with the variation in doping percentage.
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- Thi Tan Pham
- Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology 268 Ly Thuong Kiet Street, Ward 14, District 10 Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam .,Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City Quarter 6, Linh Trung Ward, Thu Duc District Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam
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- Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology 268 Ly Thuong Kiet Street, Ward 14, District 10 Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam .,Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City Quarter 6, Linh Trung Ward, Thu Duc District Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry "Ilie Murgulescu" of the Romanian Academy Splaiul Independentei 202, Sector 6 060021 Bucharest Romania
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- Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology 268 Ly Thuong Kiet Street, Ward 14, District 10 Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam .,Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City Quarter 6, Linh Trung Ward, Thu Duc District Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology NO-7491 Trondheim Norway
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- Namur Institute of Structured Matter (NISM), Department of Physics, University of Namur 61 Rue de Bruxelles B-5000 Namur Belgium
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- Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology 268 Ly Thuong Kiet Street, Ward 14, District 10 Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam .,Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City Quarter 6, Linh Trung Ward, Thu Duc District Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam
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- Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology 268 Ly Thuong Kiet Street, Ward 14, District 10 Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam .,Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City Quarter 6, Linh Trung Ward, Thu Duc District Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam
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Goujon F, Ghoufi A, Malfreyt P. Associated molecular liquids at the graphene monolayer interface. J Chem Phys 2021; 154:104504. [PMID: 33722040 DOI: 10.1063/5.0042438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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We report molecular simulations of the interaction between a graphene sheet and different liquids such as water, ethanol, and ethylene glycol. We describe the structural arrangements at the graphene interface in terms of density profiles, number of hydrogen bonds (HBs), and local structuration in neighboring layers close to the surface. We establish the formation of a two-dimensional HB network in the layer closest to the graphene. We also calculate the interfacial tension of liquids with a graphene monolayer and its profile along the direction normal to the graphene to rationalize and quantify the strengthening of the intermolecular interactions in the liquid due to the presence of the surface.
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- Florent Goujon
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand (ICCF), F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université de Rennes, CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes), UMR 6251, F-35000 Rennes, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand (ICCF), F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Edwards PJ, Wang B, Cronin SB, Bushmaker AW. Direct Measurement of Water-Assisted Ion Desorption and Solvation on Isolated Carbon Nanotubes. ACS NANO 2020; 14:16854-16863. [PMID: 33202132 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c05638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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We have investigated the change in mean residence time of gaseous ions adsorbed on the surface of suspended carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNT-FETs) with and without native surface water layers that exists in atmospheric conditions. Devices were characterized electrically before and after dehydration by thermal, dry gas, and vacuum desiccation and in each scenario were found to have substantially higher mean ion residence times. It is proposed that water molecules native to the CNT surface in ambient conditions provide a reduction pathway for incoming gaseous ions, yielding hydronium ions (H3O+). This is supported by the appearance of frequent clustered readsorption events in the presence of surface water, caused by the rapid hopping of H+ between the device surface and the lowest water layer, which are not present in data collected from desiccated devices. After desiccation of the device, a thermal trial was conducted to determine the adsorption energy of N2+ ions on the CNT surface. This work has profound implications for our understanding of wetting in one-dimensional systems and the chemistry of ion chemisorption and solvation on the surfaces of materials in general.
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- Patrick J Edwards
- Department of Physics, The University of Southern California, 825 Bloom Walk, Los Angeles, California 90089, United States
- Physical Sciences Laboratories, The Aerospace Corporation, 355 S. Douglas Street, El Segundo, California 90245, United States
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- Department of Physics, The University of Southern California, 825 Bloom Walk, Los Angeles, California 90089, United States
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Southern California, 3601 W. Way, Los Angeles, California 90089, United States
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- Physical Sciences Laboratories, The Aerospace Corporation, 355 S. Douglas Street, El Segundo, California 90245, United States
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Gogoi A, Anki Reddy K, Senthilmurugan S, Kumar Mondal P. Dehydration of acetic acid using layered graphene oxide (GO) membrane through forward osmosis (FO) process: a molecular dynamics study. MOLECULAR SIMULATION 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/08927022.2020.1849684] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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- Abhijit Gogoi
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, India
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, India
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Khosravi V, Mahmood SM, Zivar D, Sharifigaliuk H. Investigating the Applicability of Molecular Dynamics Simulation for Estimating the Wettability of Sandstone Hydrocarbon Formations. ACS OMEGA 2020; 5:22852-22860. [PMID: 32954134 PMCID: PMC7495454 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.0c02133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2020] [Accepted: 07/16/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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One of the techniques to increase oil recovery from hydrocarbon reservoirs is the injection of low salinity water. It is shown that the injection of low salinity water changes the wettability of the rock. However, there are argumentative debates concerning low salinity water effect on changing the wettability of the oil/brine/rock system in the oil reservoirs. In this regard, molecular dynamics simulation (MDS) as a tool to simulate the phenomena at the molecular level has been used for more than a decade. In this study, the Zisman plot (presented by KRUSS Company) was simulated through MDS, and then, contact angle experiments for n-decane interactions on the Bentheimer substrate in the presence of different concentrations of sodium ions were conducted. MDS was then used to simulate experiments and understand the wettability trend based on free-energy calculations. Hereafter, a new model was developed in this study to correlate free energies with contact angles. The developed model predicted the experimental results with high accuracy (R 2 ∼ 0.98). A direct relation was observed between free energy and water contact angle. In contrast, an inverse relation was noticed between the ion concentration and the contact angle such that an increase in the ion concentration resulted in a decrease in the contact angle and vice versa. In other terms, increasing brine ionic concentrations in the presence of n-decane is linked to a decrease in free energies and an increase in the wetting state of a sandstone. The comparison between the developed model's predicted contact angles and experimental observations showed a maximum deviation of 14.32%, which is in satisfactory agreement to conclude that MDS can be used as a valuable and economical tool to understand the wettability alteration process.
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Machrafi H. Universal relation between the density and the viscosity of dispersions of nanoparticles and stabilized emulsions. NANOSCALE 2020; 12:15081-15101. [PMID: 32643743 DOI: 10.1039/d0nr03130e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The effective viscosity of nanoparticle dispersions has been investigated experimentally quite a lot and various behaviours have been observed. Many models have been proposed to predict the effective viscosity, but these are mainly empirical ones, correlations with a tuning parameter or based on fastidious molecular interactions simulations. In this work, we propose a new fully physics-based analytical expression for the effective viscosity implementing theories from extended thermodynamics, including nano-confinement effects, nanoparticle-fluid interactions, density effects, size effects and nanoparticle volume fraction. We validate this model against several different types of nanoparticle dispersions and emulsions and explain the different behaviours using the same model. It appears that the density ratio of the nanoparticles with respect to the fluid plays a crucial role affecting the viscosity. The nanoparticle-fluid interactions become increasingly important for smaller nanoparticle sizes. From these comparisons, we arrive at a general simplified expression for the effective viscosity of nanoparticle dispersions, where it is observed that there is a direct universal relation between the nanoparticles and fluid densities and the nanodispersion viscosities. The validity of such a relation has been explicitly demonstrated.
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- Hatim Machrafi
- Thermodynamique des Phénomènes Irréversibles, Institut de Physique, Université de Liège, Liège 4000, Belgium. and Service Chimie-Physique, Ecole Polytechnique, Université libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles 1050, Belgium and GIGA-In Silico Medicine, Université de Liège, Liège 4000, Belgium
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Imai M, Yokota Y, Tanabe I, Inagaki K, Morikawa Y, Fukui KI. Correlation between mobility and the hydrogen bonding network of water at an electrified-graphite electrode using molecular dynamics simulation. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:1767-1773. [DOI: 10.1039/c9cp06013h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Mobility and hydrogen bonding network of water at a graphite electrode: effects of dissolved ions and applied potential.
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- Masaya Imai
- Department of Materials Engineering Science
- Graduate School of Engineering Science
- Osaka University
- Toyonaka
- Japan
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- Surface and Interface Science Laboratory
- RIKEN
- Saitama 351-0198
- Japan
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- Department of Materials Engineering Science
- Graduate School of Engineering Science
- Osaka University
- Toyonaka
- Japan
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- Department of Precision Science and Technology
- Graduate School of Engineering
- Osaka University
- 2-1 Yamada-oka
- Suita
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- Department of Precision Science and Technology
- Graduate School of Engineering
- Osaka University
- 2-1 Yamada-oka
- Suita
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- Department of Materials Engineering Science
- Graduate School of Engineering Science
- Osaka University
- Toyonaka
- Japan
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Reid MS, Erlandsson J, Wågberg L. Interfacial Polymerization of Cellulose Nanocrystal Polyamide Janus Nanocomposites with Controlled Architectures. ACS Macro Lett 2019; 8:1334-1340. [PMID: 35651153 DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.9b00692] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The widespread use of renewable nanomaterials has been limited due to poor integration with conventional polymer matrices. Often, chemical and physical surface modifications are implemented to improve compatibility, however, this comes with environmental and economic cost. This work demonstrates that renewable nanomaterials, specifically cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs), can be utilized in their unmodified state and presents a simple and versatile, one-step method to produce polyamide/CNC nanocomposites with unique Janus-like properties. Nanocomposites in the form of films, fibers, and capsules are prepared by dispersing as-prepared CNCs in the aqueous phase prior to the interfacial polymerization of aromatic diamines and acyl chlorides. The diamines in the aqueous phase not only serve as a monomer for polymerization, but additionally, adsorb to and promote the incorporation of CNCs into the nanocomposite. Regardless of the architecture, CNCs are only present along the surface facing the aqueous phase, resulting in materials with unique, Janus-like wetting behavior and potential applications in filtration, separations, drug delivery, and advanced fibers.
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Liu Y, Chen L, Zhang B, Cao Z, Shi P, Peng Y, Zhou N, Zhang J, Qian L. Key Role of Transfer Layer in Load Dependence of Friction on Hydrogenated Diamond-Like Carbon Films in Humid Air and Vacuum. MATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2019; 12:E1550. [PMID: 31083600 PMCID: PMC6539659 DOI: 10.3390/ma12091550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2019] [Revised: 04/24/2019] [Accepted: 05/09/2019] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The friction of hydrogenated diamond-like carbon (H-DLC) films was evaluated under the controlled environments of humid air and vacuum by varying the applied load. In humid air, there is a threshold applied load below which no obvious friction drop occurs and above which the friction decreases to a relatively low level following the running-in process. By contrast, superlubricity can be realized at low applied loads but easily fails at high applied loads under vacuum conditions. Further analysis indicates that the graphitization of the sliding H-DLC surface has a negligible contribution to the sharp drop of friction during the running-in process under both humid air and vacuum conditions. The low friction in humid air and the superlow friction in vacuum are mainly attributed to the formation and stability of the transfer layer on the counterface, which depend on the load and surrounding environment. These results can help us understand the low-friction mechanism of H-DLC film and define optimized working conditions in practical applications, in which the transfer layer can be maintained for a long time under low applied load conditions in vacuum, whereas a high load can benefit the formation of the transfer layer in humid air.
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- Yunhai Liu
- Tribology Research Institute, State Key Laboratory of Traction Power, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China.
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- Tribology Research Institute, State Key Laboratory of Traction Power, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China.
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- Tribology Research Institute, State Key Laboratory of Traction Power, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China.
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- Tribology Research Institute, State Key Laboratory of Traction Power, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China.
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Long-life Technology of Precise Rotation and Transmission Mechanisms, Beijing Institute of Control Engineering, Beijing 100094, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China.
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- Tribology Research Institute, State Key Laboratory of Traction Power, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China.
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Dreher T, Lemarchand C, Pineau N, Bourasseau E, Ghoufi A, Malfreyt P. Calculation of the interfacial tension of the graphene-water interaction by molecular simulations. J Chem Phys 2019; 150:014703. [PMID: 30621407 DOI: 10.1063/1.5048576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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We report the calculation of the solid-liquid interface tension of the graphene-water interaction by using molecular simulations. Local profiles of the interfacial tension are given through the mechanical and thermodynamic definitions. The dependence of the interfacial tension on the graphene area is investigated by applying both reaction field and Ewald summation techniques. The structure of the interfacial region close to the graphene sheet is analyzed through the profiles of the density and hydrogen bond number and the orientation of the water molecules. We complete this study by plotting the profiles of the components of the pressure tensor calculated by the Ewald summation and reaction field methods. We also investigate the case of a reaction field version consisting in applying a damped shifted force in the case of the calculation of the pressure components.
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- Université de Rennes, CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes)-UMR 6251, F-35000 Rennes, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand (ICCF), F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Oh MI, Gupta M, Oh CI, Weaver DF. Understanding the effect of nanoconfinement on the structure of water hydrogen bond networks. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:26237-26250. [DOI: 10.1039/c9cp05014k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Dynamic hydrogen bond trails in water confined between two phospholipid membranes traced by the information flow model.
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- Myong In Oh
- Krembil Research Institute
- University Health Network
- Toronto
- Canada
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- Krembil Research Institute
- University Health Network
- Toronto
- Canada
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- Department of Mathematics
- University of Western Ontario
- London
- Canada
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- Departments of Medicine, Chemistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences
- University of Toronto
- Toronto
- Canada
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Hersey M, Berger SN, Holmes J, West A, Hashemi P. Recent Developments in Carbon Sensors for At-Source Electroanalysis. Anal Chem 2018; 91:27-43. [PMID: 30481001 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.8b05151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Samanta T, Biswas R, Banerjee S, Bagchi B. Study of distance dependence of hydrophobic force between two graphene-like walls and a signature of pressure induced structure formation in the confined water. J Chem Phys 2018; 149:044502. [PMID: 30068196 DOI: 10.1063/1.5025823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We examine the separation distance dependence of the hydrophobic force by systematically varying the distance (d) between two walls. The hydrophobic force exhibits a distance mediated crossover from a liquid-like to a gas-like behavior at around d ∼ 12 Å for 1 atm pressure. The distance dependence can be fitted to a bi-exponential form, with the longer distance part displaying a correlation length of 20 Å. In addition, the crossover is found to be accompanied by a divergent-like growth of the local relative number fluctuation of the water molecules confined between the two surfaces. Furthermore, at a fixed separation (d = 20 Å), we observe a pressure induced structural modification of confined water at high pressure. The confined water is found to form an ordered structure at high pressure (10 000 atm) and room temperature, in agreement with the experimental study [G. Algara-Siller et al. Nature 519(7544), 443 (2015)].
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- Tuhin Samanta
- Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, Tirupati 517506, India
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- Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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- Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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Saraei N, Hietsoi O, Mullins CS, Gupta AJ, Frye BC, Mashuta MS, Buchanan RM, Grapperhaus CA. Streams, cascades, and pools: various water cluster motifs in structurally similar Ni( ii) complexes. CrystEngComm 2018. [DOI: 10.1039/c8ce01153b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Hydrogen bonding (HB) interactions are well known to impact the properties of water in the bulk and within hydrated materials.
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- Nina Saraei
- Department of Chemistry
- University of Louisville
- Louisville
- USA
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Louisville
- Louisville
- USA
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Louisville
- Louisville
- USA
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Dollekamp E, Bampoulis P, Faasen DP, Zandvliet HJW, Kooij ES. Charge Induced Dynamics of Water in a Graphene-Mica Slit Pore. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2017; 33:11977-11985. [PMID: 28985466 PMCID: PMC5677248 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b02759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2017] [Revised: 10/05/2017] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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We use atomic force microscopy to in situ investigate the dynamic behavior of confined water at the interface between graphene and mica. The graphene is either uncharged, negatively charged, or positively charged. At high humidity, a third water layer will intercalate between graphene and mica. When graphene is negatively charged, the interface fills faster with a complete three layer water film, compared to uncharged graphene. As charged positively, the third water layer dewets the interface, either by evaporation into the ambient or by the formation of three-dimensional droplets under the graphene, on top of the bilayer. Our experimental findings reveal novel phenomena of water at the nanoscale, which are interesting from a fundamental point of view and demonstrate the direct control over the wetting properties of the graphene/water interface.
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- Edwin Dollekamp
- Physics of Interfaces and Nanomaterials and Physics of Fluids,
J.M. Burgers
Centre for Fluid Mechanics and Max Planck Center for Complex Fluid
Dynamics, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology,
University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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- Physics of Interfaces and Nanomaterials and Physics of Fluids,
J.M. Burgers
Centre for Fluid Mechanics and Max Planck Center for Complex Fluid
Dynamics, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology,
University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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- Physics of Interfaces and Nanomaterials and Physics of Fluids,
J.M. Burgers
Centre for Fluid Mechanics and Max Planck Center for Complex Fluid
Dynamics, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology,
University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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- Physics of Interfaces and Nanomaterials and Physics of Fluids,
J.M. Burgers
Centre for Fluid Mechanics and Max Planck Center for Complex Fluid
Dynamics, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology,
University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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- Physics of Interfaces and Nanomaterials and Physics of Fluids,
J.M. Burgers
Centre for Fluid Mechanics and Max Planck Center for Complex Fluid
Dynamics, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology,
University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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Wang Y, Sinha S, Hu L, Das S. Interaction between a water drop and holey graphene: retarded imbibition and generation of novel water–graphene wetting states. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2017; 19:27421-27434. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cp04411a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
Abstract
Water nanodrop imbibition in holey graphene is studied unraveling novel fiber-like wetting state that enhances water–accessible graphene surface area.
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Affiliation(s)
- Yanbin Wang
- Department of Mechanical Engineering
- University of Maryland
- College Park
- USA
| | - Shayandev Sinha
- Department of Mechanical Engineering
- University of Maryland
- College Park
- USA
| | - Liangbing Hu
- Deapartment of Materials Science and Engineering
- University of Maryland
- College Park
- USA
| | - Siddhartha Das
- Department of Mechanical Engineering
- University of Maryland
- College Park
- USA
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