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Room‐Temperature Ice Growth on Graphite Seeded by Nano‐Graphene Oxide
Author(s) -
Zheng Yi,
Su Chenliang,
Lu Jiong,
Loh Kian Ping
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201302608
Subject(s) - graphene , superhydrophilicity , graphite , materials science , nucleation , oxide , seeding , ice crystals , ice nucleus , nanotechnology , chemical engineering , graphite oxide , composite material , chemistry , meteorology , contact angle , organic chemistry , metallurgy , physics , engineering , thermodynamics
Ice to see you : The Stenocara beetle in the Namib Desert collects drinking droplets from the morning mist using its waxy wings, which are tailored with sub‐millimeter hydrophilic humps. Superhydrophilic graphene oxide nanoflakes are biomimetic analogues of these humps and can seed ice nucleation on hydrophobic graphite. Various ice solids can thus be grown at ambient conditions (see images).