Static and dynamic behavior of liquids inside carbon nanotubes

D Mattia, Y Gogotsi - Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 2008 - Springer
This review deals with the static and dynamic behavior of liquids inside carbon nanotubes, a
broad subject, which includes: the investigation of liquid entering inside the tubes, and the …

Nanodroplet activated and guided folding of graphene nanostructures

N Patra, B Wang, P Král - Nano letters, 2009 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate by molecular dynamics simulations that water nanodroplets can activate
and guide the folding of planar graphene nanostructures. Once the nanodroplets are …

Review of fluid slip over superhydrophobic surfaces and its dependence on the contact angle

RS Voronov, DV Papavassiliou… - Industrial & Engineering …, 2008 - ACS Publications
A review of the characteristics of hydrophobicity is presented, with the goal of investigating
the relationship, if any, between the contact angle (a macroscopically observed property) …

Wetting and contact-line effects for spherical and cylindrical droplets on graphene layers: A comparative molecular-dynamics investigation

G Scocchi, D Sergi, C D'Angelo, A Ortona - Physical Review E—Statistical …, 2011 - APS
In molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, interactions between water molecules and
graphitic surfaces are often modeled as a simple Lennard-Jones potential between oxygen …

Thermophoretic motion of water nanodroplets confined inside carbon nanotubes

HA Zambrano, JH Walther, P Koumoutsakos… - Nano …, 2009 - ACS Publications
We study the thermophoretic motion of water nanodroplets confined inside carbon
nanotubes using molecular dynamics simulations. We find that the nanodroplets move in the …

Spectroscopic investigation of the wettability of multilayer graphene using highly ordered pyrolytic graphite as a model material

A Ashraf, Y Wu, MC Wang, NR Aluru, SA Dastgheib… - Langmuir, 2014 - ACS Publications
We report the intrinsic water contact angle (WCA) of multilayer graphene, explore different
methods of cleaning multilayer graphene, and evaluate the efficiency of those methods on …

Early regimes of water capillary flow in slit silica nanochannels

E Oyarzua, JH Walther, A Mejía… - Physical Chemistry …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular dynamics simulations are conducted to investigate the initial stages of
spontaneous imbibition of water in slit silica nanochannels surrounded by air. An analysis is …

Surface tension alteration on calcite, induced by ion substitution

H Sakuma, MP Andersson, K Bechgaard… - The Journal of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The interaction of water and organic molecules with mineral surfaces controls many
processes in nature and industry. The thermodynamic property, surface tension, is usually …

Role of long-range electrostatic interactions and local topology of the hydrogen bond network in the wettability of fully and partially wetted single and multilayer …

M Chiricotto, F Martelli, G Giunta… - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We report the wetting behavior of graphitic surface–water interfaces through the calculation
of the local stress tensor based on the Irving–Kirkwood–Noll theory using detailed atomistic …

Solvent–solvent correlations across graphene: the effect of image charges

N Ojaghlou, D Bratko, M Salanne, M Shafiei, A Luzar - ACS nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
Wetting experiments show pure graphene to be weakly hydrophilic, but its contact angle
(CA) also reflects the character of the supporting material. Measurements and molecular …