3 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
Wettability from Diffusion: A Universal Molecular Scaling Law
Lorenzo Agosta
Quantifying wettability at the nanoscale remains challenging, as macroscopic contact-angle measurements fail to capture the molecular interactions that define hydrophilic and hydro…
physics.comp-ph2025
Spectral Similarity Masks Structural Diversity at Hydrophobic Water Interfaces
Yong Wang, Yifan Li, Linhan Du +5
The air-water and graphene-water interfaces represent quintessential examples of the liquid-gas and liquid-solid boundaries, respectively. While the sum-frequency generation (SFG)…
cond-mat.soft2024
Water under hydrophobic confinement: entropy and diffusion
Lorenzo Agosta, Kersti Hermansson, Mikhail Dzugutov
The properties of liquid water are known to change drastically in confined geometries. A most interesting and intriguing phenomenon is that the diffusion of water is found to be st…