Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Contact angle measurement of free-standing square-millimeter single-layer graphene

  • Anna V. Prydatko,
  • Liubov A. Belyaeva,
  • Lin Jiang,
  • Lia M. C. Lima,
  • Grégory F. Schneider

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06608-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Experimental determination of the contact angle of a two-dimensional film is crucial to understand its wettability characteristics. Here, the authors use the captive bubble method to estimate a contact angle value of 42° ± 3° for a monolayer graphene film.