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ArticleScientific reports2019

Structure, Dynamics, and Wettability of Water at Metal Interfaces.

Suji Gim, Kang Jin Cho, Hyung-Kyu Lim, Hyungjun Kim

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Article in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  11. Microscopic origin of the effect of substrate metallicity on interfacial free energies.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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4 authors.

Suji GimGraduate School of EEWS and Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34141, Korea.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9867-7567
Kang Jin ChoGraduate School of EEWS and Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34141, Korea.
Hyung-Kyu LimDivision of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Gangwon-do, 24341, Korea. hklim@kangwon.ac.kr.
Hyungjun KimGraduate School of EEWS and Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34141, Korea. linus16@kaist.ac.kr.

Funding

National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) 2017M3D1A1039378National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) 2017R1A5A1015365National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) 2019M3A7B4064417
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The water/metal interface often governs important chemophysical processes in various technologies. Therefore, from scientific and engineering perspectives, the detailed molecular-level elucidation of the water/metal interface is of high priority, but the related research is limited. In experiments, the surface-science techniques, which can provide full structural details of the surface, are not easy to directly apply to the interfacial systems under ambient conditions, and the well-defined facets cannot be entirely free from contamination at the contact with water. To answer long-standing debates regarding the wettability, structure, and dynamics of water at metal interfaces, we here develop reliable first-principles-based multiscale simulations. Using the state-of-the-art simulations, we find that the clean metal surfaces are actually superhydrophilic and yield zero contact angles. Furthermore, we disclose an inadequacy of widespread ice-like bilayer model of the water adlayers on metal surfaces from both averaged structural and dynamic points of view. Our findings on the nature of water on metal surfaces provide new molecular level perspectives on the tuning and design of water/metal interfaces that are at the heart of many energy applications.

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PMCPMC6794260

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