Dynamics of water confined inside hydrophilic and hydrophobic nanotubes

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Compared to carbon nanotubes, metal-oxide imogolite nanotubes (INT), with nominal composition (OH)3Al2O3SixGe1-x(OH), have the peculiarity to have a perfectly defined diameter D after their synthesis, combined to large aspect ratio L/D (L=nanotube length). This diameter can be tuned depending on the relative contents in Si and Ge. Imogolite nanotubes present a strong hydrophilic character (n-INT) but can be rendered hydrophobic. These methyl-modified nanotubes (m-INT) (OH)3Al2O3SixGe1-x(CH3) still present well defined diameter, tunable at the angstrom level, and represent an ideal custom-made system.The goal of this proposal is to investigate the dynamics of water confined into hydrophilic n-INT and hydrophobic m-INT with variable inner diameters (1.6 and 2.8 nm for n-INT; 1.8 and 2.4 nm for m-INT), in order to determine the respective roles of curvature effect and water-wall interactions.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5291/ILL-DATA.7-04-155
Metadata Access https://data.ill.fr/openaire/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=10.5291/ILL-DATA.7-04-155
Provenance
Creator Caridad, Alicia Ruiz; Orecchini, Andrea; Frick, Bernhard; Paineau, Erwan Nicolas; Monet, Geoffrey; Launois, Pascale; Bhandary, Rajesh; Rols, Stephane; Rouziere, Stéphan
Publisher Institut Laue-Langevin
Publication Year 2018
Rights OpenAccess; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Dataset
Size 3 GB
Version 1
Discipline Particles, Nuclei and Fields