Local Polarization Piezoelectric Electric Field Promoted Water Dissociation for Hydroxyl Radical Generation under Ambient Humidity Condition

Y Liu, X Lu, R Zhang, J Wang, Z Zhou, Y Xia… - Advanced …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Combining piezocatalysts with mechanical ball milling for dissociating water to generate
hydroxyl radicals (· OH) offers unprecedented opportunities for energy conversion and …

Kinetics of liquid annulus formation and capillary forces

YI Rabinovich, A Singh, M Hahn, S Brown, B Moudgil - Langmuir, 2011 - ACS Publications
The dependence of the capillary adhesion force F cap between a silica microsphere and a
flat silica surface versus a time period t of the samples' contact (ie, dwell-in time) is …

Nanoscale Young's modulus and surface morphology in photocurable polyacrylate/nanosilica composites

H Gojzewski, M Sadej, E Andrzejewska… - European polymer …, 2017 - Elsevier
We studied quantitatively nanomechanical properties (Young's modulus, adhesion force)
and surface morphology of two types of model polymer-nanosilica composites. High …

Minimal invasiveness and spectroscopy-like footprints for the characterization of heterogeneous nanoscale wetting in ambient conditions

CA Amadei, S Santos, SO Pehkonen… - The Journal of …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Wetting at the nanoscale is investigated and discussed in relation to samples presenting
amphiphilic domains and by employing dynamic atomic force microscopy (AFM) operating in …

A comparative study of surface energy data from atomic force microscopy and from contact angle goniometry

DA Lamprou, JR Smith, TG Nevell, E Barbu… - Applied Surface …, 2010 - Elsevier
Forces of adhesion have been measured for interactions involving self-assembled
monolayers or polymer-film structures that had each been deposited onto a gold-coated …

Influence of humidity on the nanoadhesion between a hydrophobic and a hydrophilic surface

A Ptak, H Gojzewski, M Kappl, HJ Butt - Chemical Physics Letters, 2011 - Elsevier
The adhesion force between a silicon nitride tip and a 1-dodecanethiol monolayer have
been measured at different loading rates and different humidity. A way to extract the kinetic …

Effect of the chain length and temperature on the adhesive properties of alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers

H Gojzewski, M Kappl, A Ptak - Langmuir, 2017 - ACS Publications
Stable and hydrophobic self-assembled monolayers of alkanethiols are promising materials
for use as lubricants in microdevices and nanodevices. We applied high-rate dynamic force …

Quantitative analysis of the interaction between an atomic force microscopy tip and a hydrophobic monolayer

A Ptak, H Gojzewski, M Kappl… - The Journal of Physical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Atomic force microscopy has become an important technique for studying the adhesion of
nanometer-sized contacts. However, there is still no good method to quantitatively …

PEGylation density-modulated anticancer drug release on gold nanoparticles in live cells

JH Yoon, EO Ganbold, SW Joo - Journal of Industrial and Engineering …, 2016 - Elsevier
Glutathione (GSH)-triggered drug releases of the anticancer drug mitoxantrone from a
polyethylene glycol (PEG)(molecular weight: 5000) density-modulated drug delivery system …

Capillary-force measurement on SiC surfaces

M Sedighi, VB Svetovoy, G Palasantzas - Physical Review E, 2016 - APS
Capillary forces have been measured by atomic force microscopy in the sphere-plate
geometry, in a controlled humidity environment, between smooth silicon carbide and …