What is it about?
Foundation for this study was established in a theoretical work which combined capable force fields for modeling quartz surfaces and organic molecules (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b00527). Applications of the above results illustrate how theoretical research helps to extract otherwise inaccessible knowledge about chemically modified quartz surfaces and related phenomena. A range of novel ideas are uncovered using molecular dynamics as a magnifier, worth mentioning and experimentally hard to investigate concepts include observations of a water skirt, apparent and theoretical contact angles, binary wettability and wettability regime switch from homogenous to heterogeneous at an atomistic level.
Featured Image
Photo by Daniele Levis Pelusi on Unsplash
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Wettability of Fully Hydroxylated and Alkylated (001) α-Quartz Surface in Carbon Dioxide Atmosphere, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, March 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS),
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b00263.
You can read the full text:
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
