ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2025
Spontaneous Surface Charging and Janus Nature of the Hexagonal Boron Nitride-Water Interface.
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- Machine-learning enhanced simulations predict graphene is microscopically hydrophobic and not wetting transparent.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Electric fields at hydrophobic water interfaces: spectroscopic evidence, physical origin, and implications on reactivity.Chemical Society reviews · 2026Review
- Reevaluating Anomalous Electric Fields at the Air-Water Interface: A Surface-Specific Spectroscopic Survey.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2025Article
- Interfaces govern the structure of angstrom-scale confined water solutions.Nature communications · 2025Article
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Abstract
Boron, nitrogen, and carbon are neighbors in the periodic table and can form strikingly similar twin structures─hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) and graphene─yet nanofluidic experiments demonstrate drastically different water friction on them. We investigate this discrepancy by probing the interfacial water and atomic-scale properties of hBN using surface-specific vibrational spectroscopy, atomic-resolution atomic force microscopy (AFM), and machine learning-based molecular dynamics. Spectroscopy reveals that pristine hBN acquires significant negative charges upon contacting water at neutral pH, unlike hydrophobic graphene, leading to interfacial water alignment and stronger hydrogen bonding. AFM supports that this charging is not defect-induced. pH-dependent measurements suggest OH
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