期刊
ACS NANO
卷 9, 期 12, 页码 12197-12204出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b06572
关键词
constrained water; compression limit; graphene; 2D water and ice; metastability (phase) diagram
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资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11302218, 11472263]
- Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation [1408085J08]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China [WK2090050027, WK2480000001]
- NSF [CHE-1306326, CBT-1512164]
Evaluation of the tensile/compression limit of a solid under conditions of tension or compression is often performed to provide mechanical properties that are critical for structure design and assessment. Algara-Siller et al. recently demonstrated that when water is constrained between two sheets of graphene, it becomes a two-dimensional (2D) liquid and then is turned into an intriguing monolayer solid with a square pattern under high lateral pressure [Nature, 2015, 519, 443-445]. From a mechanics point of view, this liquid-to-solid transformation characterizes the compression limit (or metastability limit) of the 2D monolayer water. Here, we perform a simulation study of the compression limit of 2D monolayer, bilayer, and trilayer water constrained in graphene nanocapillaries. At 300 K, a myriad of 2D ice polymorphs (both crystalline-like and amorphous) are formed from the liquid water at different widths of the nanocapillaries, ranging from 6.0 to 11.6 angstrom. For monolayer water, the compression limit is typically a few hundred MPa, while for the bilayer and trilayer water, the compression limit is 1.5 GPa or higher, reflecting the ultrahigh van der Waals pressure within the graphene nanocapillaries. The compression-limit (phase) diagram is obtained at the nanocapillary width versus pressure (h-P) plane, based on the comprehensive molecular dynamics simulations at numerous thermodynamic states as well as on the Clapeyron equation. Interestingly, the compression-limit curves exhibit multiple local minima.
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