Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Versatile electrification of two-dimensional nanomaterials in water

  • Benoît Grosjean,
  • Marie-Laure Bocquet,
  • Rodolphe Vuilleumier

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09708-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The origins of the different charging processes observed in graphene and boron-nitride nanofluidics are still under debate. Here, using ab-initio molecular dynamics, the authors show that hydroxide species in water exhibits physisorption on graphene but strong chemisorption on boron-nitride.