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Zhou R, Neek-Amal M, Peeters FM, Bai B, Sun C. Interlink between Abnormal Water Imbibition in Hydrophilic and Rapid Flow in Hydrophobic Nanochannels. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2024; 132:184001. [PMID: 38759191 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.132.184001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2023] [Revised: 02/29/2024] [Accepted: 03/21/2024] [Indexed: 05/19/2024]
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Nanoscale extension and refinement of the Lucas-Washburn model is presented with a detailed analysis of recent experimental data and extensive molecular dynamics simulations to investigate rapid water flow and water imbibition within nanocapillaries. Through a comparative analysis of capillary rise in hydrophilic nanochannels, an unexpected reversal of the anticipated trend, with an abnormal peak, of imbibition length below the size of 3 nm was discovered in hydrophilic nanochannels, surprisingly sharing the same physical origin as the well-known peak observed in flow rate within hydrophobic nanochannels. The extended imbibition model is applicable across diverse spatiotemporal scales and validated against simulation results and existing experimental data for both hydrophilic and hydrophobic nanochannels.
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- Runfeng Zhou
- State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, China
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- Department of Physics, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, 16875-163 Lavizan, Tehran, Iran
- Departement Fysica, Universiteit Antwerpen, Groenenborgerlaan 171, B-2020 Antwerpen, Belgium
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- Departement Fysica, Universiteit Antwerpen, Groenenborgerlaan 171, B-2020 Antwerpen, Belgium
- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza-CE 60455-760, Brazil
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- State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, China
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Chen X, Qin Y, Zhu Y, Pan X, Wang Y, Ma H, Wang R, Easton CD, Chen Y, Tang C, Du A, Huang A, Xie Z, Zhang X, Simon GP, Banaszak Holl MM, Lu X, Novoselov K, Wang H. Accurate prediction of solvent flux in sub-1-nm slit-pore nanosheet membranes. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2024; 10:eadl1455. [PMID: 38669337 PMCID: PMC11051674 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adl1455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2023] [Accepted: 03/26/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024]
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Nanosheet-based membranes have shown enormous potential for energy-efficient molecular transport and separation applications, but designing these membranes for specific separations remains a great challenge due to the lack of good understanding of fluid transport mechanisms in complex nanochannels. We synthesized reduced MXene/graphene hetero-channel membranes with sub-1-nm pores for experimental measurements and theoretical modeling of their structures and fluid transport rates. Our experiments showed that upon complete rejection of salt and organic dyes, these membranes with subnanometer channels exhibit remarkably high solvent fluxes, and their solvent transport behavior is very different from their homo-structured counterparts. We proposed a subcontinuum flow model that enables accurate prediction of solvent flux in sub-1-nm slit-pore membranes by building a direct relationship between the solvent molecule-channel wall interaction and flux from the confined physical properties of a liquid and the structural parameters of the membranes. This work provides a basis for the rational design of nanosheet-based membranes for advanced separation and emerging nanofluidics.
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- Xiaofang Chen
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular & Process Engineering, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Chemical Processes, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211816, China
- Suzhou Laboratory, Suzhou 215125, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211816, China
- Suzhou Laboratory, Suzhou 215125, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211816, China
- Suzhou Laboratory, Suzhou 215125, China
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
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- Monash Centre for Electron Microscopy, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia
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- School of Chemistry, Physics and Mechanical Engineering, Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland 4001, Australia
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- School of Chemistry, Physics and Mechanical Engineering, Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland 4001, Australia
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular & Process Engineering, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Chemical Processes, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- CSIRO Manufacturing, Private Bag 10, Clayton South, Victoria 3169, Australia
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- UQ Dow Centre, School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
- Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294
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- State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211816, China
- Suzhou Laboratory, Suzhou 215125, China
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- Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials, National University of Singapore, Building S9, 4 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117544, Singapore
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
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Arya V, Chaudhuri A, Bakli C. Wettability-modulated behavior of polymers under varying degrees of nano-confinement. J Chem Phys 2024; 160:064905. [PMID: 38341795 DOI: 10.1063/5.0185533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2023] [Accepted: 01/15/2024] [Indexed: 02/13/2024] Open
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Extreme confinement in nanochannels results in unconventional equilibrium and flow behavior of polymers. The underlying flow physics dictating such paradigms remains far from being understood and more so if the confining substrate is composed of two-dimensional materials, such as graphene. In this study, we conducted systematic molecular dynamics simulations to explore the effect of wettability, confinement, and chain length on polymer flow through graphene-like nanochannels. Altering the wetting properties of these membranes that structurally represent graphene results in substantial changes in the behavior of polymers of disparate chain lengths. Longer hydrocarbon chains (n-dodecane) exhibit negligible wettability-dependent structuring in narrower nanochannels compared to shorter chains (n-hexane) culminating in higher average velocities and interfacial slippage of n-dodecane under less wettable conditions. We demonstrate that the wettability compensation comes from chain entanglement attributed to entropic factors. This study reveals a delicate balance between wettability-dependent enthalpy and chain-length-dependent entropy, resulting in a unique nanoscale flow paradigm, thus not only having far-reaching implications in the superior discernment of polymeric flow in sub-micrometer regimes but also potentially revolutionizing various applications in the oil industry, including innovative oil transport, oil extraction, ion transport polymers, and separation membranes.
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- Vinay Arya
- Thermofluidics and Nanotechnology for Sustainable Energy Systems Laboratory, School of Energy Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, India
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, India
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- Thermofluidics and Nanotechnology for Sustainable Energy Systems Laboratory, School of Energy Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, India
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Johny V, Ghosh S. Active Solid-State Nanopores: Self-Driven Flows/Chaos at the Liquid-Gas Nanofluidic Interface. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2023; 39:18889-18898. [PMID: 38018767 PMCID: PMC10753882 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c02776] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2023] [Revised: 11/15/2023] [Accepted: 11/16/2023] [Indexed: 11/30/2023]
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Here, we present a comprehensive study of self-driven flow dynamics at the liquid-gas interface within nanofluidic pores in the absence of external driving forces. The investigation focuses on the Rayleigh-Taylor instability phenomena that occur in sub-100 nm scale fluidic pores interfacing between 2 μm scale water and air reservoir. We obtain a flow velocity equation, and we validate it using simulations, concentrating on the mass transfer efficiency of these flow structures. Furthermore, we introduce the concept─"active solid-state nanopore"─that exhibits a self-driven flow switching behavior, transitioning between active and passive states without the need for mechanical components. We found a unique state of chaos at the nanoscale resembling the chaotic motion of fluid. This study contributes to the preliminary understanding of fluid dynamics at the classical-quantum interface. Implications of self-driven nanofluidics extend across diverse fields from biosensing and healthcare applications to advancing net-zero sustainable energy production and contributing to the fundamental understanding of fluid dynamics in confined spaces.
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- Vinitha Johny
- International
Center for Nanodevices, INCeNSE-TBI, Indian
Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore 560 012, Karnataka, India
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Academic Research Council, Hooghly 712 235, West Bengal, India
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Academic Research UK CIC, Cambridge CB3 1AT, U.K.
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- International
Center for Nanodevices, INCeNSE-TBI, Indian
Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore 560 012, Karnataka, India
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Academic Research Council, Hooghly 712 235, West Bengal, India
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Academic Research UK CIC, Cambridge CB3 1AT, U.K.
- International
Center for Nanodevices, High Tech Campus
Eindhoven, Eindhoven 5656 AE, The Netherlands
- Department
of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0WA, U.K.
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Mathas D, Sarpa D, Holweger W, Wolf M, Bohnert C, Bakolas V, Procelewska J, Franke J, Rödel P, Skylaris CK. Calculating shear viscosity with confined non-equilibrium molecular dynamics: a case study on hematite - PAO-2 lubricant. RSC Adv 2023; 13:33994-34002. [PMID: 38019999 PMCID: PMC10660148 DOI: 10.1039/d3ra06929j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2023] [Accepted: 11/08/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023] Open
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The behaviour of confined lubricants at the atomic scale as affected by the interactions at the surface-lubricant interface is relevant in a range of technological applications in areas such as the automotive industry. In this paper, by performing fully atomistic molecular dynamics, we investigate the regime where the viscosity starts to deviate from the bulk behaviour, a topic of great practical and scientific relevance. The simulations consist of setting up a shear flow by confining the lubricant between iron oxide surfaces. By using confined Non-Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics (NEMD) simulations at a pressure range of 0.1-1.0 GPa at 100 °C, we demonstrate that the film thickness of the fluid affects the behaviour of viscosity. We find that by increasing the number of lubricant molecules, we approach the viscosity value of the bulk fluid derived from previously published NEMD simulations for the same system. These changes in viscosity occurred at film thicknesses ranging from 10.12 to 55.93 Å. The viscosity deviations at different pressures between the system with the greatest number of lubricant molecules and the bulk simulations varied from -16% to 41%. The choice of the utilized force field for treating the atomic interactions was also investigated.
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- Dimitrios Mathas
- Department of Chemistry, University of Southampton Highfield Southampton SO17 1BJ UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Southampton Highfield Southampton SO17 1BJ UK
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- Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Southampton Highfield Southampton SO17 1BJ UK
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- Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG Herzogenaurach Germany
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- Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau Gottlieb-Daimler-Str. 67663 Kaiserslautern Germany
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- Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG Herzogenaurach Germany
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- Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG Herzogenaurach Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Southampton Highfield Southampton SO17 1BJ UK
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Singh N, Simeski F, Ihme M. Computing Thermodynamic Properties of Fluids Augmented by Nanoconfinement: Application to Pressurized Methane. J Phys Chem B 2022; 126:8623-8631. [PMID: 36279403 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c04347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Nanoconfined fluids exhibit remarkably different thermodynamic behavior compared to the bulk phase. These confinement effects render predictions of thermodynamic quantities of nanoconfined fluids challenging. In particular, confinement creates a spatially varying density profile near the wall that is primarily responsible for adsorption and capillary condensation behavior. Significant fluctuations in thermodynamic quantities, inherent in such nanoscale systems, coupled to strong fluid-wall interactions give rise to this near-wall density profile. Empirical models have been proposed to explain and model these effects, yet no first-principles based formulation has been developed. We present a statistical mechanics framework that embeds such a coupling to describe the effect of the fluid-wall interaction in amplifying the near-wall density behavior for compressible gases at elevated pressures such as pressurized methane in confinement. We show that the proposed theory predicts accurately the adsorbed layer thickness as obtained with small-angle neutron scattering measurements. Furthermore, the predictions of density under confinement from the proposed theory are shown to be in excellent agreement with available experimental and atomistic simulations data for a range of temperatures for nanoconfined methane. While the framework is presented for evaluating the near-wall density, owing to its rigorous foundation in statistical mechanics, the proposed theory can also be generalized for predicting phase-transition and nonequilibrium transport of nanoconfined fluids.
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- Narendra Singh
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States.,Department of Photon Science, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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Yong H, He X, Merlitz H. Connection between Intrapore Free Energy, Molecule Permeation, and Selectivity of Nanofiltration Membranes. Macromolecules 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.2c00317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Huaisong Yong
- Department of Polymer Materials and Engineering, School of New Energy and Materials, Southwest Petroleum University, 610500, Chengdu, China
- Institute Theory of Polymers, Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V., D-01069, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Polymer Materials and Engineering, School of New Energy and Materials, Southwest Petroleum University, 610500, Chengdu, China
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- Institute Theory of Polymers, Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V., D-01069, Dresden, Germany
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Rabani R, Saidi MH, Joly L, Merabia S, Rajabpour A. Enhanced local viscosity around colloidal nanoparticles probed by equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. J Chem Phys 2021; 155:174701. [PMID: 34742212 DOI: 10.1063/5.0065050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Nanofluids-dispersions of nanometer-sized particles in a liquid medium-have been proposed for a wide variety of thermal management applications. It is known that a solid-like nanolayer of liquid of typical thicknesses of 0.5-1 nm surrounding the colloidal nanoparticles can act as a thermal bridge between the nanoparticle and the bulk liquid. Yet, its effect on the nanofluid viscosity has not been elucidated so far. In this article, we compute the local viscosity of the nanolayer using equilibrium molecular dynamics based on the Green-Kubo formula. We first assess the validity of the method to predict the viscosity locally. We apply this methodology to the calculation of the local viscosity in the immediate vicinity of a metallic nanoparticle for a wide range of solid-liquid interaction strength, where a nanolayer of thickness 1 nm is observed as a result of the interaction with the nanoparticle. The viscosity of the nanolayer, which is found to be higher than its corresponding bulk value, is directly dependent on the solid-liquid interaction strength. We discuss the origin of this viscosity enhancement and show that the liquid density increment alone cannot explain the values of the viscosity observed. Rather, we suggest that the solid-like structure of the distribution of the liquid atoms in the vicinity of the nanoparticle contributes to the nanolayer viscosity enhancement. Finally, we observe a failure of the Stokes-Einstein relation between viscosity and diffusion close to the wall, depending on the liquid-solid interaction strength, which we rationalize in terms of the hydrodynamic slip.
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- Reza Rabani
- Center of Excellence in Energy Conversion (CEEC), School of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran 11155-9567, Iran
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- Center of Excellence in Energy Conversion (CEEC), School of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran 11155-9567, Iran
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- Univ Lyon, Univ Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, Institut Lumière Matière, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Univ Lyon, Univ Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, Institut Lumière Matière, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Advanced Simulation and Computing Laboratory (ASCL), Mechanical Engineering Department, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran
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Poggioli AR, Limmer DT. Distinct Chemistries Explain Decoupling of Slip and Wettability in Atomically Smooth Aqueous Interfaces. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:9060-9067. [PMID: 34516117 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c02828] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Despite essentially identical crystallography and equilibrium structuring of water, nanoscopic channels composed of hexagonal boron nitride and graphite exhibit an order-of-magnitude difference in fluid slip. We investigate this difference using molecular dynamics simulations, demonstrating that its origin is in the distinct chemistries of the two materials. In particular, the presence of polar bonds in hexagonal boron nitride, absent in graphite, leads to Coulombic interactions between the polar water molecules and the wall. We demonstrate that this interaction is manifested in a large typical lateral force experienced by a layer of oriented hydrogen atoms in the vicinity of the wall, leading to the enhanced friction in hexagonal boron nitride. The fluid adhesion to the wall is dominated by dispersive forces in both materials, leading to similar wettabilities. Our results rationalize recent observations that the difference in frictional characteristics of graphite and hexagonal boron nitride cannot be explained on the basis of the minor differences in their wettabilities.
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- Anthony R Poggioli
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Chemical Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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Sun C, Zhou R, Zhao Z, Bai B. Unveiling the hydroxyl-dependent viscosity of water in graphene oxide nanochannels via molecular dynamics simulations. Chem Phys Lett 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2021.138808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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