2020
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2978-1
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Capillary condensation under atomic-scale confinement

Abstract: Capillary condensation of water is ubiquitous in nature and technology. It routinely occurs in granular and porous media, can strongly alter such properties as adhesion, lubrication, friction and corrosion, and is important in many processes employed by microelectronics, pharmaceutical, food and other industries [1][2][3][4] . The century-old Kelvin equation 5 is commonly used to describe condensation phenomena and shown to hold well for liquid menisci with diameters as small as several nm [1][2][3][4][6][7][8… Show more

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“…(2017). In fact, the Kelvin effect can be significant either for very fine particles or very low water content (Thiery et al., 2017; Yang et al., 2020), and the current study demonstrates for the first time the drying enhancement phenomenon due to Kelvin effect for grains with size of hundreds of micrometers.…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 56%
“…(2017). In fact, the Kelvin effect can be significant either for very fine particles or very low water content (Thiery et al., 2017; Yang et al., 2020), and the current study demonstrates for the first time the drying enhancement phenomenon due to Kelvin effect for grains with size of hundreds of micrometers.…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 56%
“…Notice that Eq. 1 assumes constant surface tension and its validity at the nanometric scale is still being demonstrated [32][33][34]. The validity of the Kelvin equation is also addressed and demonstrated for alcohols in the present work.…”
Section: Experiments and Resultsmentioning
confidence: 74%
“…This water was applied to the AgNWs network prepared by the spin-coating method, and water molecules were adsorbed on the curved surface of AgNWs net nodes. Due to capillary force generated by rapid evaporation of water molecules [30], AgNWs network nodes were tightly combined, the number of conductive channels increased, and the conductivity of AgNWs-TCF improved. This moisture treatment method is simple, feasible, and has industrialization potential.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%