The 968th IMS colloquium

Seminar & Events Detail

Lecture Title	The water-graphene interface: a quaint quantum couple
Date	Friday 2 June 2023 16:00 to 17:30
Lecturer	Prof. Mischa Bonn (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany)
Place	IMS Research Building Room 201
Summary	Water interfaces differ from the bulk, in both their physical structure and chemical composition. A particularly fascinating interface is the water-graphene interface. Water has been reported to flow through carbon nanotubes (essentially curved graphene) with remarkably low resistance. Large-area graphene can serve as an electrochemical electrode, allowing detailed studies of electrochemical processes. Surface-specific spectroscopy on water in contact with graphene enable elucidating electrochemistry at the molecular level [1,2], and investigating the origin of the friction between water as it flows along graphene [3]. Y. Wang, T. Seki, X. Liu, X. Yu, C.-C. Yu, K.F. Domke, J. Hunger, M.T.M. Koper, Y. Chen, Y. Nagata, M. Bonn, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., DOI: 10.1002/anie.202216604 (2023). Y. Wang, T. Seki, X. Yu, C.-C. Yu, K.-Y. Chiang, J. Hunger, Y. Chen, Y. Nagata, M. Bonn, Nature, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05669-y X. Yu, A. Principi, K.-J. Tielrooij, M. Bonn, N. Kavokine, Nature Nanotech., in revision.
Contact	Hikaru Kuramochi & Yasutomo Segawa （IMS colloquium FY2023 committee）

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