Wetting of mono and few-layered WS2 and MoS2 films supported on Si/SiO2 substrates

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 3023-3031

  Chow, Philippe K ^a   Singh, Eklavya ^a   Viana, Bartolomeu Cruz ^b,d   Gao, Jian ^a   Luo, Jian ^a   Li, Jing ^c   Lin, Zhong ^b   Elías, Ana L ^b   Shi, Yunfeng ^a   Wang, Zuankai ^c   Terrones, Mauricio ^b,e   Koratkar, Nikhil ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PIAUÍ   (Brazil)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

condensation dynamics; hydropbobicity; hydrophilicity; microdrop arrays; monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides; wetting; wetting transparency

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATION; CONTACT ANGLE; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; HYDROPHILICITY; LAYERED SEMICONDUCTORS; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; SILICA; SILICON; SUBSTRATES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; THIN FILMS; TRANSITION METALS; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES; WETTING;

AIRBORNE CONTAMINANTS; DIPOLE DIPOLE INTERACTIONS; HYDROPBOBICITY; HYDROPHOBIC-HYDROPHILIC; MICRODROPS; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D); VAN DER WAALS ATTRACTION;

MONOLAYERS;

EID: 84925625576     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn5072073     Document Type: Article

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