分类： 物理学 >> 核物理学 提交时间： 2023-06-18 合作期刊: 《Nuclear Science and Techniques》
摘要： The theoretical model and the numerical analyses on the Gibbs-free-energy of the association states of amphiphilic molecules in nanoconfined aqueous solutions are presented in detail. We exhibit the continuous change of the Gibbs-free-energy trend, which plays a critical role in the association states of the system transforming from the dispersion state, through the reversible state, and finally to the aggregation state in amphiphilic molecule solutions. Furthermore, for the reversible state, we present the difference in the free-energy barrier heights of the dispersion state and aggregation state, resulting from the competition between the entropy, which makes the solute molecules evenly disperse in the solution and the energy contribution driving the amphiphilic molecules to aggregate into a larger cluster. These findings provide a comprehensive understanding of confinement effects on the solute association processes in aqueous solutions and may further improve the techniques of material fabrication.
分类： 物理学 >> 核物理学 提交时间： 2023-06-18 合作期刊: 《Nuclear Science and Techniques》
摘要： Molecularly thin water layer, with a hydrogen bonding network different from those in bulk water and ice, has unique properties and is generally involved in many important processes such as wetting, erosion, atmosphere chemical reaction, protein folding and biomolecular interaction. Here, we report a new water layer structure at room temperature, which is found inside nanobubbles by using synchrotron based scanning transmission soft X-ray microscopy (STXM). The three peaks 535.0, 536.8 and 540.9 eV at O K edge inside the nanobubbles show a novel characteristics of very thin water layers, which has never been observed before.
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