Vitreous ice as a cryoprotectant for imaging atom‐probe studies of adsorption phenomena at a solid–liquid interface

1989 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 2850-2853 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Panitz
Author(s):  
J.A. Panitz

The first few atomic layers of a solid can form a barrier between its interior and an often hostile environment. Although adsorption at the vacuum-solid interface has been studied in great detail, little is known about adsorption at the liquid-solid interface. Adsorption at a liquid-solid interface is of intrinsic interest, and is of technological importance because it provides a way to coat a surface with monolayer or multilayer structures. A pinhole free monolayer (with a reasonable dielectric constant) could lead to the development of nanoscale capacitors with unique characteristics and lithographic resists that surpass the resolution of their conventional counterparts. Chemically selective adsorption is of particular interest because it can be used to passivate a surface from external modification or change the wear and the lubrication properties of a surface to reflect new and useful properties. Immunochemical adsorption could be used to fabricate novel molecular electronic devices or to construct small, “smart”, unobtrusive sensors with the potential to detect a wide variety of preselected species at the molecular level. These might include a particular carcinogen in the environment, a specific type of explosive, a chemical agent, a virus, or even a tumor in the human body.


2020 ◽  
Vol 124 (5) ◽  
pp. 2987-2993
Author(s):  
Chi-Kuang Sun ◽  
Yi-Ting Yao ◽  
Chih-Chiang Shen ◽  
Mu-Han Ho ◽  
Tien-Chang Lu ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Zhang ◽  
Qiang Wu ◽  
Ziqi Zeng ◽  
Chuang Yu ◽  
Shijie Cheng ◽  
...  

A soluble organoselenide compound, phenyl diselenide (PDSe), is employed as a soluble electrolyte additive to enhance the kinetics of sulfurized polyacrylonitrile cathode, in which radical exchange in the solid-liquid interface...


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 2464
Author(s):  
Sha Yang ◽  
Neven Ukrainczyk ◽  
Antonio Caggiano ◽  
Eddie Koenders

Modelling of a mineral dissolution front propagation is of interest in a wide range of scientific and engineering fields. The dissolution of minerals often involves complex physico-chemical processes at the solid–liquid interface (at nano-scale), which at the micro-to-meso-scale can be simplified to the problem of continuously moving boundaries. In this work, we studied the diffusion-controlled congruent dissolution of minerals from a meso-scale phase transition perspective. The dynamic evolution of the solid–liquid interface, during the dissolution process, is numerically simulated by employing the Finite Element Method (FEM) and using the phase–field (PF) approach, the latter implemented in the open-source Multiphysics Object Oriented Simulation Environment (MOOSE). The parameterization of the PF numerical approach is discussed in detail and validated against the experimental results for a congruent dissolution case of NaCl (taken from literature) as well as on analytical models for simple geometries. In addition, the effect of the shape of a dissolving mineral particle was analysed, thus demonstrating that the PF approach is suitable for simulating the mesoscopic morphological evolution of arbitrary geometries. Finally, the comparison of the PF method with experimental results demonstrated the importance of the dissolution rate mechanisms, which can be controlled by the interface reaction rate or by the diffusive transport mechanism.


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