Effect of Surface Charge Characteristics of Ferroelectric LiNbO3 on Wettability of Ionic Liquids

Autor: Bo Tang, Yiwen Zhao, Sen Yang, Zhiang Guo, Zhenhui Wang, An Xing, Xiaoyan Liu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Nanomaterials, Vol 12, Iss 12, p 2085 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2079-4991
DOI: 10.3390/nano12122085
Popis: Electrowetting is a widely used and effective method to tune the wettability of ionic liquids at solid-liquid interfaces, but it usually requires an external electric field. Here, we proposed a strategy for conveniently tuning ionic liquid wettability by adopting ferroelectric LiNbO3 single crystals as functional substrates. A heating pretreatment process was applied to modulate the surface charge characteristics of LiNbO3 substrates, leading to an improved wettability of [EMIM][BF4] and [EMIM][NTf2] on the LiNbO3 substrates with both positively poled (+Z) and negatively poled (−Z) surfaces. This work may be of great interest in the field of ferroelectric-based microelectronics.
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