Unexpected hydrophobicity on self-assembled monolayers terminated with two hydrophilic hydroxyl groups. 2021

Dangxin Mao, and Xian Wang, and Yuanyan Wu, and Zonglin Gu, and Chunlei Wang, and Yusong Tu
College of Physics Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Jiangsu 225009, China. ystu@yzu.edu.cn.

Current major approaches to access surface hydrophobicity include directly introducing hydrophobic nonpolar groups/molecules onto the surface or elaborately fabricating surface roughness. Here, for the first time, molecular dynamics simulations show an unexpected hydrophobicity with a contact angle of 82° on a flexible self-assembled monolayer terminated only with two hydrophilic OH groups ((OH)2-SAM). This hydrophobicity, verified by a water slip phenomenon characterizing the friction on the (OH)2-SAM surface, is attributed to the formation of a hexagonal-ice-like H-bonding structure in the OH matrix of (OH)2-SAM, which sharply reduces the hydrogen bonds between the surface and the water molecules above. The unique simple interface presented here offers a significant molecular-level platform for examining the bio-interfacial interactions ranging from biomolecule binding to cell adhesion.

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