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Nanodroplets Impacting on Graphene
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 March 2016
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The unique and remarkable properties of graphene can be exploited as the basis toa wide range of applications. However, in spite of years of investigations thereare some important graphene properties that are not still fully understood, asfor example, its wettability. There are controversial reported results whethergraphene is really hydrophobic or hydrophilic. In order to address this problemwe have carried out classical molecular dynamics simulations of waternanodroplets shot against graphene surface. Our results show that the contactangle values between the nanodroplets and graphene surfaces depend on theinitial droplet velocity value and these angles can change from 86°(hydrophobic) to 35° (hydrophilic). Our preliminary results indicatethat the graphene wettability can be dependent on spreading liquid dynamics andwhich can explain some of the apparent inconsistencies reported in theliterature.
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