Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Liquefaction of water on the surface of anisotropic two-dimensional atomic layered black phosphorus

  • Jinlai Zhao,
  • Jiajie Zhu,
  • Rui Cao,
  • Huide Wang,
  • Zhinan Guo,
  • David K. Sang,
  • Jiaoning Tang,
  • Dianyuan Fan,
  • Jianqing Li,
  • Han Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11937-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Structural anisotropy of surfaces determines properties relevant for applications. Here the authors observe a relationship between the shape of water droplets forming on graphene, MoS2and black phosphorous and the surface structure, proposing a method to determine lattice orientation by optical microscopy.