期刊
MOLECULAR SIMULATION
卷 39, 期 9, 页码 700-709出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/08927022.2012.758854
关键词
silicon-water interface; water nanodroplet; hydrophobic; hydrophilic; line tension
资金
- National Science Foundation [CBET 0931988, OCI 1053575]
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [0931988] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Water droplets on bare silicon surfaces are studied to examine the wetting behaviour as a function of the surface energy and to parameterise water-silicon interactions in order to recover the hydrophobic behaviour measured by experiments. Two different wetting regimes characterised by a critical interaction strength value are observed. At a threshold value of the water-silicon interaction parameter, water molecules start penetrating into the first layer of silicon surface under thermally vibrating walls, resulting in two distinct wetting behaviours. Fixed (cold) silicon walls do not exhibit the two different wetting characteristics. Size effects are studied for nano-scale droplets, and line tension influence is observed depending on the surface wettability. Decrease in the droplet size increases the contact angle values for the low wetting cases, while contact angles decrease for smaller droplets on the high wetting surfaces. Considering the line tension effects and droplet size, ESi-O for water-silicon interactions to recover the hydrophobic behaviour of silicon surfaces is estimated to be 12.5% of the value predicted using the Lorentz-Berthelot mixing rule.
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