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Graphene has received a lot of attention for its excellent physical and chemical properties, and the unique wettability of graphene is still under investigation. Most of previous studies focused on graphene or carbon nanotubes, and less of them on the comparison of wettability between graphene and other materials to reveal the characteristic wettability of graphene. In the present study, the wettability of monolayer graphene, copper and silica are studied by using the molecular dynamics simulation, in which the contact angle and the water molecule arrangement (i.e. density distribution and angle distribution of water molecules) on the substrates are analyzed. The results show that although both copper and graphene are weak hydrophilic materials, there are two neat layers of water molecule structure on the surface of graphene, and water molecules are disordered on the surface of copper. Silica is a kind of strong hydrophilic material and graphene is a kind of weak hydrophilic material, but both of them have two layers of dense water molecule layer, which are in different states, on the surface. On the silica surface, the two layers of water molecules, whose densities are greatly different, are close to the substrate, and hydrogen bonds are randomly arranged, which is very different from the arrangement of water molecules on the graphene surface. By making a comparison of wettability among the three materials, the characteristic water molecule arrangement on graphene surface is obtained: there exist two layers of water molecules on the surface of graphene. Within the dense layer of water molecules near the substrate, the angles between the O−H bonds of water molecule and the vertical direction of substrate focus on 90°, while the hydrogen bonds on the surface are almost perpendicular to the substrate. Furthermore, it is found that adding a layer of graphene on copper (the main force between water molecules and copper is van der Waals force) will have a less influence on copper wettability. However, adding a layer of graphene on silica (the main force between water molecule and silica is from chemical bonds) will have a significant influence on the wettability of silica, i.e. not only the upper contact angle increases significantly, but also the arrangement of water molecules on the surface of the substrate becomes similar to that of graphene. These simulated results are found to be in agreement with the experimental results of Rafiee et al. [Rafiee J, Mi X, Gullapalli H, Thomas A V, Yavari F, Shi Y, Ajayan P M, Koratkar N A 2012 Nature 11 217]. This work can provide a theoretical guidance for further developing the applications of graphene in microstructure design.
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Keywords:
- graphene /
- wettability /
- water /
- molecular simulation
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图 1 无限长液柱模拟体系
Figure 1. Infinite long liquid column simulation system.
图 2 水滴轮廓示意图 (a)水滴边界散点图; (b)水滴中心轴上密度随高度的分布
Figure 2. Schematic diagram of water drop outline: (a) Scatter plot of water drop boundary; (b) the distribution of density along the center axis of droplet with height.
图 3 分子动力学模拟测量接触角与实验结果的对比
Figure 3. Comparison of contact angle between the experimental results and the molecular dynamics simulational results.
图 4 不同体系中接触角随水分子数目的变化 (a)无限长液柱状模拟体系中接触角与水分子数目的关系; (b)三维液滴状模拟体系中接触角与水分子数目的关系
Figure 4. Changes of contact angles over number of water molecules inside systems: (a) The relationship between the contact angle and the number of water molecules in an infinite length liquid column system; (b) the relationship between the contact angle and the number of water molecules in three-dimensional droplet system.
图 5 无限长液柱模拟体系的示意图
Figure 5. Schematic diagram of infinite long liquid column simulation system.
图 6 水滴中心轴上沿z轴方向的水分子密度分布图 (a)水分子数目为3528; (b)水分子数目为5000; (c)水分子数目为6728; (d)水分子数目为8712
Figure 6. Water molecule density distribution of the central axis of the water droplet along the z axis: (a) The system with 3528 water molecules; (b) the system with 5000 water molecules; (c) the system with 6728 water molecules; (d) the system with 8712 water molecules.
图 7 不同基底上水滴中心轴处水分子密度随高度的分布图 (a)基底为石墨烯; (b)基底为铜; (c)基底为二氧化硅
Figure 7. Water molecule density distribution of the central axis of the water droplet along the z axis on different basement: (a) The basement is grapheme; (b) the basement is copper; (c) the basement is silicon dioxide.
图 8 水分子中氢氧键与垂直基底方向的夹角θ
Figure 8. The angle θ between the hydroxyl bond and the vertical base direction in water molecules.
图 10 不同基底上水分子排布情况 (a)二氧化硅基底上水分子排布的局部视图; (b)单层石墨烯上水分子排布的局部视图
Figure 10. The distribution of water molecules in different substrates: (a) A local view of the arrangement of water molecules on silicon dioxide substrate; (b) a local view of the arrangement of water molecules on a single graphene substrate.
图 9 不同基底上水分子中O—H键与垂直基底方向夹角余弦cosθ的频率分布图 (a)基底为铜; (b)基底为二氧化硅; (c)基底为石墨烯
Figure 9. Frequency distribution diagram of cosθ between O—H bond in water molecule and vertical base direction in systems with different bases: (a) The basement is copper; (b) the basement is silicon dioxide; (c) the basement is graphene.
图 11 不同基底表面氢键的排布情况 (a)单层石墨烯与水分子之间的氢键; (b)二氧化硅与水分子之间的氢键; (c)单层石墨烯表面氢键与垂直基底方向夹角余弦cosφ的分布频率; (d)二氧化硅表面氢键与垂直基底方向夹角余弦cosφ的分布频率
Figure 11. Frequency distribution diagram of the angle between hydrogen bond in water molecule and vertical base direction in systems with different bases: (a) The formation of hydrogen bonds between water molecules and a single graphene substrate; (b) the formation of hydrogen bonds between water molecules and silicon dioxide substrate; (c) cosine frequency of the angle between the hydrogen bond on a single graphene and the vertical direction of the base; (d) cosine frequency of the angle between the hydrogen bond on silicon dioxide and the vertical direction of the base.
图 13 铜基底添加石墨烯后水分子密度随高度分布图的变化 (a)添加一层石墨烯后; (b)未添加石墨烯
Figure 13. The change of the distribution of water molecule density along the central axis of droplet after graphene was added to copper base: (a) With graphene added to copper surface; (b) without graphene added to copper surface.
图 14 铜添加石墨烯后基底表面水分子排布情况的变化 (a)铜添加石墨烯后最靠近基底1 Å范围内cosθ的分布频率; (b)铜表面最靠近基底1 Å范围内cosθ的分布频率; (c)铜添加石墨烯后表面水分子排布的局部视图; (d)铜表面水分子排布的局部视图
Figure 14. The change of water molecule arrangement on the surface of substrate after adding graphene to copper: (a) Frequency distribution of cosθ in water molecule closest to the substrate and within a thickness of 1 Å after graphene added on the copper base; (b) frequency distribution of cosθ in water molecule closest to the substrate and within a thickness of 1 Å on copper base; (c) a local view of the arrangement of water molecules on copper substrate with graphene added to it; (d) a local view of the arrangement of water molecules on copper substrate.
图 15 二氧化硅基底添加石墨烯前后水分子密度随高度分布的变化 (a)添加一层石墨烯; (b)未添加石墨烯
Figure 15. Change of the distribution of water molecule density along the central axis of droplet before and after graphene added to silicon dioxide base: (a) With graphene added to silicon dioxide surface; (b) without graphene added to silicon dioxide surface.
图 16 二氧化硅添加石墨烯后基底表面水分子排布情况的变化 (a)二氧化硅添加石墨烯后最靠近基底1 Å范围内cosθ的分布频率; (b)二氧化硅表面最靠近基底1 Å范围内cosθ的分布频率; (c)二氧化硅添加石墨烯后表面水分子排布的局部视图; (d)二氧化硅表面水分子排布的局部视图
Figure 16. Change of water molecule arrangement on the surface of substrate after adding graphene to silicon dioxide: (a) Frequency distribution of cosθ in water molecule closest to the substrate and within a thickness of 1 Å after graphene was added on silicon dioxide base; (b) frequency distribution of cosθ in water molecule closest to the substrate and within a thickness of 1 Å on silicon dioxide base; (c) a local view of the arrangement of water molecules and hydrogen bonds on silicon dioxide substrate with graphene added to it; (d) a local view of the arrangement of water molecules and hydrogen bonds on silicon dioxide substrate.
图 17 二氧化硅添加石墨烯前后基底表面氢键与垂直基底方向的夹角φ的余弦分布频率 (a)基底为二氧化硅表面添加一层石墨烯 (d)基底为二氧化硅
Figure 17. The change of cosine frequency of the angle between the hydrogen bond on the base surface and the vertical direction of the base before and after adding graphene to silicon dioxide: (a) Silicon dioxide with a single graphene above as the basement; (b) silicon dioxide as the basement.
表 1 不同基底表面所测接触角的平均值与标准差
Table 1. Mean and standard deviation of contact angles measured on different base surfaces.
基底 三次测量所得的
接触角/(°)平均值/(°) 标准差/(°) 铜基底 79.87 78.24 81.23 79.78 1.50 二氧化硅基底 26.63 24.30 27.41 26.11 1.62 
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表 2 不同水分子数目的体系中所测接触角的平均值与标准差
Table 2. Mean and standard deviation of contact angles measured in systems with different numbers of water molecules.
体系中的
水分子数目三次测得的接触角/(°) 平均值/(°) 标准差/(°) 1000 78.87 77.06 79.58 78.50 1.30 2000 79.92 76.42 83.21 79.85 3.40 4000 78.76 77.56 79.37 78.56 0.92 8397 78.93 81.21 77.71 79.28 1.78
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表 3 不同基底上水分子中O—H键与垂直基底方向的夹角余弦cosθ频率分布
Table 3. Frequency distribution of cosθ between O—H bond in water molecule and vertical base direction in systems with different bases.
cosθ的范围 占总体百分比/% 铜 二氧化硅 石墨烯 0—0.1 28.65 30.10 34.95 0.1—0.2 12.92 22.20 19.89 0.2—0.3 13.48 15.94 12.37 0.3—0.4 7.30 12.61 9.14 0.4—0.5 7.87 8.27 6.99 0.5—0.6 7.87 5.01 6.99 0.6—0.7 3.37 2.52 5.91 0.7—0.8 3.93 2.12 2.15 0.8—0.9 3.93 0.71 1.61 0.9—1.0 10.67 0.10 0.0
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表 4 不同基底组合中所测接触角的平均值与标准差
Table 4. Mean and standard deviation of contact angles measured in different base combinations.
基底 三次测得的
接触角/(°)平均值/(°) 标准差/(°) 铜 + 石墨烯 81.99 83.14 82.05 82.39 0.65 二氧化硅 +
石墨烯57.23 55.62 60.02 57.62 2.23
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表 5 铜添加石墨烯后基底表面水分子中O—H键与垂直基底方向的夹角余弦cosθ频率分布
Table 5. Frequency distribution of cosθ between O—H bond in water molecule and vertical base direction with and without graphene added on copper base.
cosθ的范围 占总体百分比/% 添加一层石墨烯 未添加石墨烯 0—0.1 29.71 28.65 0.1—0.2 18.21 12.92 0.2—0.3 15.66 13.48 0.3—0.4 10.54 7.30 0.4—0.5 8.31 7.87 0.5—0.6 7.67 7.87 0.6—0.7 2.88 3.37 0.7—0.8 4.79 3.93 0.8—0.9 1.60 3.93 0.9—1.0 0.64 10.67
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表 6 二氧化硅添加石墨烯后基底表面水分子中O—H键与垂直基底方向的夹角余弦cosθ频率分布
Table 6. Frequency distribution of cosθ between O—H bond in water molecule and vertical base direction with and without graphene added on silicon dioxide base.
cosθ的范围 占总体百分比/% 添加一层石墨烯 二氧化硅 石墨烯 0—0.1 34.98 30.10 34.95 0.1—0.2 17.94 22.20 19.89 0.2—0.3 14.35 15.94 12.37 0.3—0.4 12.56 12.61 9.14 0.4—0.5 6.28 8.27 6.99 0.5—0.6 4.93 5.01 6.99 0.6—0.7 4.04 2.52 5.91 0.7—0.8 3.14 2.12 2.15 0.8—0.9 0.90 0.71 1.61 0.9—1.0 0.90 0.10 0
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Google Scholar
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