Beilstein J. Nanotechnol.2020,11, 891–898, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.74
reveals a qualitatively similar ethanol arrangement on both carbonates, indicating the general nature of this finding.
Keywords: 3D AFM; calcite; ethanol; magnesite; MD simulation; solvationstructure; Introduction
Sedimentary rocks including the minerals calcite and magnesite are abundant constituents
obtained to date. Furthermore, no information on the interfacial orientation and binding configuration has been collected experimentally.
Here, we report on high-resolution 3D AFM data that reveals both the lateral and the vertical solvationstructure at the calcite–ethanol interface in a single data set
contrast, the second layer then resides on top of the less well-defined layer of ethyl groups. For the magnesite–ethanol interface, we find a remarkably similar solvationstructure as for the calcite–ethanol interface in both the AFM data and the MD simulations. This latter result confirms the general
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Figure 1:
Vertical slice of the frequency shift at the calcite–ethanol interface (a) and at the magnesite–eth...