What is the contact angle of water on graphene?

Langmuir

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1457-1465

  Taherian, Fereshte ^a   Marcon, Valentina ^a   Van Der Vegt, Nico F A ^a   Leroy, Frédéric ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON LAYERS; CLASSICAL MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; GRAPHENE LAYERS; INTERACTION ENERGIES; INTERACTION POTENTIALS; THEORETICAL STUDY; WATER MOLECULE; WETTING PROPERTY; WORK OF ADHESION;

ADHESION; CONTACT ANGLE; GRAPHITE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONOLAYERS; SUBSTRATES;

GRAPHENE;

GRAPHITE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SURFACE PROPERTY;

GRAPHITE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WATER;

EID: 84873368790     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la304645w     Document Type: Article

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