... terminal with hydrophobic and hydrophilic properties, the local TBCs of these interfaces with water solvent were evaluated, and the result showed a critical difference due to an affinity between SAM and solvent. In order to elucidate the molecular-scale mechanism that makes this difference, microscopic...

...Nenad Miljkovic; Ryan Enright; Shalabh C. Maroo; H. Jeremy Cho; Evelyn N. Wang 27 04 2011 27 04 2011 capillarity drops elemental semiconductors evaporation flow visualisation hydrophilicity hydrophobicity nanostructured materials scanning electron microscopy silicon...

... terminated headgroups and self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) with different chain lengths are used to recondition and modify the hydrophilicity of silica surface, and vibrational matching between crystalline silica and liquid water, where three-dimensional nanopillars are grown at the interface...