The effect of oxygen vacancies on water wettability of transition metal based SrTiO
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Sarkar, Tarapada; Annamalai, Meenakshi; Patra, Abhijeet; Prakash, Saurav; Motapothula, Mallikarjuna Rao; Venkatesan, T.; Ghosh, Siddhartha; Stoerzinger, Kelsey Ann; Lee, Yueh Lin; Shao-Horn, Yang; Giordano, Livia; ... Show more Show less
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Understanding the structural, physical and chemical properties of the surface and interfaces of different metal-oxides and their possible applications in photo-catalysis and biology is a very important emerging research field. Motivated in this direction, this article would enable understanding of how different fluids, particularly water, interact with oxide surfaces. We have studied the water contact angle of 3d transition metal oxide thin films of SrTiO[subcript 3], and of 4f rare-earth oxide thin films of Lu2O[subcript 3]. These metal oxides were grown using pulsed laser deposition and they are atomically flat and with known orientation and explicitly characterized for their structure and composition. Further study was done on the effects of oxygen vacancies on the water contact angle of the 3d and 4f oxides. For 3d SrTiO[subcript 3] oxide with oxygen vacancies, we have observed an increase in hydroxylation with consequent increase of wettability which is in line with the previous reports whereas an interesting opposite trend was seen in the case of rare-earth Lu2O[subcript 3] oxide. Density functional theory simulations of water interaction on the above mentioned systems have also been presented to further substantiate our experimental findings.
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2016-11Department
Lincoln Laboratory; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical EngineeringJournal
RSC Adv.
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Royal Society of Chemistry, The
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Sarkar, Tarapada, Siddhartha Ghosh, Meenakshi Annamalai, Abhijeet Patra, Kelsey Stoerzinger, Yueh-Lin Lee, Saurav Prakash, et al. “The Effect of Oxygen Vacancies on Water Wettability of Transition Metal Based SrTiO3 and Rare-Earth Based Lu2O3.” RSC Adv. 6, no. 110 (2016): 109234–109240.
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2046-2069