[HTML][HTML] Water-solid interfaces probed by high-resolution atomic force microscopy

J Peng, J Guo, R Ma, Y Jiang - Surface Science Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Water-solid interfaces play important roles across a broad range of scientific and application
fields. In the past decades, atomic force microscopy (AFM) has significantly deepened our …

How does water wet a surface?

S Maier, M Salmeron - Accounts of chemical research, 2015 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The adsorption and reactions of water on surfaces has attracted great interest,
as water is involved in many physical and chemical processes at interfaces. On metal …

Two dimensional ice from first principles: Structures and phase transitions

J Chen, G Schusteritsch, CJ Pickard, CG Salzmann… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
Despite relevance to disparate areas such as cloud microphysics and tribology, major gaps
in the understanding of the structures and phase transitions of low-dimensional water ice …

Evidence of formation of 1–10 nm diameter ice nanotubes in double-walled carbon nanotube capillaries

Y Liu, J Jiang, Y Pu, JS Francisco, XC Zeng - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Water exhibits rich phase behaviors in nanoscale confinement. Since the simulation
evidence of the formation of single-walled ice nanotubes (INTs) in single-walled carbon …

Identification of a common ice nucleus on hydrophilic and hydrophobic close-packed metal surfaces

P Chen, Q Xu, Z Ding, Q Chen, J Xu, Z Cheng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Establishing a general model of heterogeneous ice nucleation has long been challenging
because of the surface water structures found on different substrates. Identifying common …

Weakly perturbative imaging of interfacial water with submolecular resolution by atomic force microscopy

J Peng, J Guo, P Hapala, D Cao, R Ma… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Scanning probe microscopy has been extensively applied to probe interfacial water in many
interdisciplinary fields but the disturbance of the probes on the hydrogen-bonding structure …

Ordered water layer on the macroscopically hydrophobic fluorinated polymer surface and its ultrafast vibrational dynamics

J Zhang, J Tan, R Pei, S Ye, Y Luo - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Hydrophobic-like water monolayers have been predicted at the metal and some polar
surfaces by theoretical simulations. However, direct experimental evidence for the presence …

Ultrahigh-resolution imaging of water networks by atomic force microscopy

A Shiotari, Y Sugimoto - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
Local defects in water layers growing on metal surfaces have a key influence on the wetting
process at the surfaces; however, such minor structures are undetectable by macroscopic …

Water‐Induced Bandgap Engineering in Nanoribbons of Hexagonal Boron Nitride

C Chen, Y Hang, HS Wang, Y Wang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Different from hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) sheets, the bandgap of hBN nanoribbons
(BNNRs) can be changed by spatial/electrostatic confinement. It is predicted that a …

Robustness of bilayer hexagonal ice against surface symmetry and corrugation

P Yang, C Zhang, W Sun, J Dong, D Cao, J Guo… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Two-dimensional (2D) bilayer hexagonal ice (BHI) is regarded as the first intrinsic 2D ice
crystal. However, the robustness of such a structure or its derivatives against surface …