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应变依赖的石墨烯润湿性

Strain-Dependent Wetting of Graphene

University of Cambridge(剑桥大学);Harvard University(哈佛大学);Microsoft Research AI for Science(微软研究院AI4S)

Darren Wayne Lim, Xavier R. Advincula, William C. Witt, Angelos Michaelides, Fabian L. Thiemann, Christoph Schran

AI总结:

研究揭示石墨烯润湿性受机械应变影响显著,通过机器学习与第一性原理计算发现其接触角为72.1±1.5°,并展示应变导致润湿行为的各向异性及接触角滞后现象。

摘要:

理解水如何润湿石墨烯对预测和控制其在纳米流体、传感和能源应用中的行为至关重要。接触角是衡量润湿的关键指标,但实验测量结果差异大,尤其是自由石墨烯缺乏共识。本文利用具有第一性原理精度的机器学习势能,首次原子级原理预测这一未解问题,发现弱亲水接触角为72.1±1.5°。更重要的是,揭示石墨烯润湿性对机械应变高度敏感:拉伸应变使石墨烯显著更疏水,而压缩应变引发相干涟漪,导致显著的各向异性润湿和接触角滞后。研究显示,三相接触线与自由石墨烯的固有热涟漪之间存在强耦合,这解释了应变敏感性。结果表明,二维膜的润湿性不仅由化学性质决定,还受动态形态影响,引入了一种独特的原子薄材料润湿行为,为实验测量的变异性提供新解释。这些发现表明,机械应变可能是控制二维纳米材料润湿性的实用途径,对纳米流体和纳米过滤应用具有广阔前景。

英文摘要:

Understanding how water wets graphene is critical for predicting and controlling its behaviour in nanofluidic, sensing, and energy applications. A key measure of wetting is the contact angle made by a liquid droplet against the surface, yet experimental measurements for graphene span a wide range, with no consensus for free-standing graphene. Here, we use a machine learning potential with ab initio accuracy to provide an atomistic first-principles prediction for this unsolved problem, finding a weakly hydrophilic contact angle of $72.1 \pm 1.5 °$. More importantly, we unveil that graphene's wetting properties are highly sensitive to mechanical strain: tensile strain makes graphene significantly less hydrophilic, while compressive strain induces coherent ripples around the droplet, resulting in pronounced anisotropic wetting and contact angle hysteresis. We show that there is a strong coupling between the three-phase contact line and the intrinsic thermal ripples of free-standing graphene, which contributes to this strain sensitivity. Our results demonstrate that the wettability of 2D membranes are governed not only by their chemistry but also by their dynamic morphology, introducing a new class of wetting behaviour unique to atomically thin materials that offers an additional explanation for variability in experimental measurements. These findings reveal that mechanical strain may be a practical route to controlling wetting in 2D nanomaterials-based technologies, with promising consequences for nanofluidic and nano-filtration applications.

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