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Article Dans Une Revue Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Année : 2018

Molecular hydrophobicity at a macroscopically hydrophilic surface

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Interfaces between water and silicates are ubiquitous and relevant for, among others, geochemistry, atmospheric chemistry, and chromatography. The molecular-level details of water organization at silica surfaces are important for a fundamental understanding of this interface. While silica is hydrophilic, weakly hydrogen-bonded OH groups have been identified at the surface of silica, characterized by a high O-H stretch vibrational frequency. Here, through a combination of experimental and theoretical surface-selective vibrational spectroscopy, we demonstrate that these OH groups originate from very weakly hydrogen-bonded water molecules at the nominally hydrophilic silica interface. The properties of these OH groups are very similar to those typically observed at hydrophobic surfaces. Molecular dynamics simulations illustrate that these weakly hydrogen-bonded water OH groups are pointing with their hydrogen atom toward local hydrophobic sites consisting of oxygen bridges of the silica. An increased density of these molecular hydrophobic sites, evident from an increase in weakly hydrogen-bonded water OH groups, correlates with an increased macroscopic contact angle.
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hal-02110446 , version 1 (18-05-2020)

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Jenée D. Cyran, Michael A. Donovan, Doris Vollmer, Flavio Siro Brigiano, Simone Pezzotti, et al.. Molecular hydrophobicity at a macroscopically hydrophilic surface. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018, 116 (5), pp.1520-1525. ⟨10.1073/PNAS.1819000116⟩. ⟨hal-02110446⟩
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