Water Flow in Graphene

-Capillary in Nanochannel-

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Concepts Application Problem Solving

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Capillary Phenomena?

Adhesion > Cohesion or Adhesion < Cohesion

Fig.2

Fig.1 물 - 유리관
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Capillary Height

he :equilibrium liquid height

γ :surface tension

Θ0 :contact angle of the liquid on the tube wall

ρ :liquid density (mass per unit volume)

r :tube radius
Fig.3
g : gravitational acceleration

Jurin's law
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Difference with the thesis

-Mesoporous capillary
(2nm~50nm)

-Presence of Bottlenecks
(impacts on infiltration speed)
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Difference with the thesis

Two driving forces

Capillary filling(liquid) + Evaporation/Condensation(vapor)

Capillary infiltration

Fig.4
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Difference with the thesis

Results
-The bigger the difference between Pore diameter
and Bottle-neck dimension, the faster liquid
transport.

-for similar bottleneck dimensions, the liquid

progression is faster with smaller pores than with
larger pores

Fig.5
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Reduced Graphene Oxide

50 μm
slow

fast
50 μm

Fig.6 preparation of RGO Fig.7 water transport experiment of RGO

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Application

Assuming that each layer in both RGOs have same structure, the difference between
Pore diameter and Bottle-neck dimension decreases with layer gap size (=pore size)
increase
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Optimal gap size?

Lucas-Washburn
equation
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Optimal gap size?

In nanoscale, gravitational
force can be neglected
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Optimal gap size?

-As gap size increases, the speed will

increase within the range that gravitational
force is not significant dragging force

8η 𝜕ℎ(𝑡)
𝑟2= ×
𝜌𝑔ℎ 𝜕𝑡

𝜕ℎ(𝑡)
𝑟= A ×
𝜕𝑡
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