ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2012
Activated drying in hydrophobic nanopores and the line tension of water.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed.
- Hemifusomes and proteolipid nanodroplets: a critical synthesis of an emerging model for endosomal membrane remodeling.Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2026Review
- Topology-Independent Water Extrusion from Hydrophobic Nanopores above 200 °C.The journal of physical chemistry. C, Nanomaterials and interfaces · 2025Article
- Effects of Size and Porosity on the Hydrophobicity of Hierarchical Nanoparticles.Nano letters · 2025Article
- Spontaneous Dipole Reorientation in Confined Water and Its Effect on Wetting/Dewetting of Hydrophobic Nanopores.ACS applied materials & interfaces · 2024Article
- Reversible Surface Energy Storage in Molecular-Scale Porous Materials.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Effect of the Topology on Wetting and Drying of Hydrophobic Porous Materials.ACS applied materials & interfaces · 2022Article
- Structure and dynamics of water confined in cylindrical nanopores with varying hydrophobicity.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2021Article
- Carbon dioxide as a line active agent: Its impact on line tension and nucleation rate.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- The Effect of Surface Entropy on the Heat of Non-Wetting Liquid Intrusion into Nanopores.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2021Article
- Spontaneous outflow efficiency of confined liquid in hydrophobic nanopores.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Free energy of hydrophilic and hydrophobic pores in lipid bilayers by free energy perturbation of a restraint.The Journal of chemical physics · 2020Article
- Electric Field Induced Dewetting of Hydrophobic Nanocavities at Ambient Temperature.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Effect of Flexibility and Nanotriboelectrification on the Dynamic Reversibility of Water Intrusion into Nanopores: Pressure-Transmitting Fluid with Frequency-Dependent Dissipation Capability.ACS applied materials & interfaces · 2019Article
- Article
- Vapor nucleation paths in lyophobic nanopores.The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2018Article
- Intrusion and extrusion of water in hydrophobic nanopores.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
- Nanoscopic characterization of the water vapor-salt interfacial layer reveals a unique biphasic adsorption process.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Can Nanofluidic Chemical Release Enable Fast, High Resolution Neurotransmitter-Based Neurostimulation?Frontiers in neuroscience · 2016Article
- Pathways to dewetting in hydrophobic confinement.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015Article
- Anisotropy of local stress tensor leads to line tension.Scientific reports · 2015Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
We study the slow dynamics of water evaporation out of hydrophobic cavities by using model porous silica materials grafted with octylsilanes. The cylindrical pores are monodisperse, with a radius in the range of 1-2 nm. Liquid water penetrates in the nanopores at high pressure and empties the pores when the pressure is lowered. The drying pressure exhibits a logarithmic growth as a function of the driving rate over more than three decades, showing the thermally activated nucleation of vapor bubbles. We find that the slow dynamics and the critical volume of the vapor nucleus are quantitatively described by the classical theory of capillarity without adjustable parameter. However, classical capillarity utterly overestimates the critical bubble energy. We discuss the possible influence of surface heterogeneities, long-range interactions, and high-curvature effects, and we show that a classical theory can describe vapor nucleation provided that a negative line tension is taken into account. The drying pressure then provides a determination of this line tension with much higher precision than currently available methods. We find consistent values of the order of -30 pN in a variety of hydrophobic materials.
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.