Water structuring at stacked graphene interfaces unveiled by machine-learning molecular dynamics
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| author | Hou, Dianwei Horbatenko, Yevhen Ringe, Stefan Cho, Minhaeng |
| author_facet | Hou, Dianwei Horbatenko, Yevhen Ringe, Stefan Cho, Minhaeng |
| contents | The wettability of monolayer and multilayer graphene remains a topic of longstanding debate. Here, we combined first-principles molecular dynamics simulations accelerated with the atomic cluster expansion machine learning interatomic potential to investigate how substrate, graphene layer number, and intercalated water molecules influence graphene's wettability. Simulated vibrational sum-frequency generation (vSFG) spectra revealed that the experimentally observed hydrophilic behavior of monolayer graphene on hydrophilic substrates arose not from wetting transparency, but from signal cancellation induced by intercalated water. Energetic analyses further showed that intercalated water molecules were thermodynamically favorable for monolayer graphene on hydrophilic substrates, but not for multilayer systems, leading to changes in the vSFG response in line with experimental observations. These results offer a mechanistic understanding of graphene-water interactions and have broad implications for the design of graphene-based interfaces and devices. |
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| spellingShingle | Water structuring at stacked graphene interfaces unveiled by machine-learning molecular dynamics Hou, Dianwei Horbatenko, Yevhen Ringe, Stefan Cho, Minhaeng Chemical Physics Optics The wettability of monolayer and multilayer graphene remains a topic of longstanding debate. Here, we combined first-principles molecular dynamics simulations accelerated with the atomic cluster expansion machine learning interatomic potential to investigate how substrate, graphene layer number, and intercalated water molecules influence graphene's wettability. Simulated vibrational sum-frequency generation (vSFG) spectra revealed that the experimentally observed hydrophilic behavior of monolayer graphene on hydrophilic substrates arose not from wetting transparency, but from signal cancellation induced by intercalated water. Energetic analyses further showed that intercalated water molecules were thermodynamically favorable for monolayer graphene on hydrophilic substrates, but not for multilayer systems, leading to changes in the vSFG response in line with experimental observations. These results offer a mechanistic understanding of graphene-water interactions and have broad implications for the design of graphene-based interfaces and devices. |
| title | Water structuring at stacked graphene interfaces unveiled by machine-learning molecular dynamics |
| topic | Chemical Physics Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17685 |