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Quasi-stabilized hydration layers on muscovite mica under a thin water film grown from humid air.


ABSTRACT: The interfaces between solids and water films in air play fundamental roles in physicochemical phenomena, biological functions, and nano-fabrication. Though the properties of the interfaces have been considered to be irrelevant to the water film thickness, we found distinctive mechanical features of the interface between a cleaved muscovite mica surface and a thin water film grown in humid air, dissimilar to those in bulk water, using frequency-modulation atomic force microscopy. The thin water film grew with quasi-stabilized hydration networks of water molecules, tightly bound each other at the interface, to a thickness of ~2?nm at near-saturating humidity. Consequently, defective structures of the hydration networks persisted vertically through the hydration layers at the interface, and K+ ions on the cleaved surface remained without dissolution into the water film. The results provide atomistic insights into thin water films in regard to epitaxial-like growth from vapour and the motion of water molecules and ions therein.

SUBMITTER: Arai T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5481378 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Quasi-stabilized hydration layers on muscovite mica under a thin water film grown from humid air.

Arai Toyoko T   Sato Kohei K   Iida Asuka A   Tomitori Masahiko M  

Scientific reports 20170622 1


The interfaces between solids and water films in air play fundamental roles in physicochemical phenomena, biological functions, and nano-fabrication. Though the properties of the interfaces have been considered to be irrelevant to the water film thickness, we found distinctive mechanical features of the interface between a cleaved muscovite mica surface and a thin water film grown in humid air, dissimilar to those in bulk water, using frequency-modulation atomic force microscopy. The thin water  ...[more]

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