Tuning Water Slip Behavior in Nanochannels Using Self-Assembled Monolayers

• Published in: ACS applied materials & interfaces Vol. 11; no. 35; pp. 32481 - 32488
• Main Authors: Huang, Dezhao, Zhang, Teng, Xiong, Guoping, Xu, Linji, Qu, Zhiguo, Lee, Eungkyu, Luo, Tengfei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Chemical Society 04.09.2019
• Subjects: friction; gold; guidelines; hydrophilicity; hydrophobicity; mass transfer; moieties; molecular dynamics; simulation models; viscosity; nonequilibrium molecular dynamics; slip length; shear viscosity; self-assembled monolayer; hard−soft interface

Water slip at solid surfaces is important for a wide range of micro-/nanofluidic applications. While it is known that water slip behavior depends on surface functionalization, how it impacts the molecular level dynamics and mass transport at the interface is still not thoroughly understood. In this...