ULTRAHIGH-VACUUM TECHNIQUES IN MEASUREMENT OF CONTACT ANGLES .3. WATER ON COPPER AND SILVER
ULTRAHIGH-VACUUM TECHNIQUES IN MEASUREMENT OF CONTACT ANGLES .3. WATER ON COPPER AND SILVER
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DOI:
10.1021/j100594a017
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发表时间:
1974-01-01
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SCHRADER, ME
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SCHRADER, ME
Thin films ofcopper and silver were deposited by evaporation in an ultrahigh vacuum system capable of attaining a pressure of at least 2 X-10 Torr. Contact angles of oxygen-free water on the oxide-free metal surfaces were measured in situ and foundto be 0. Residual gas analysis with a quadrupole mass spectrometer indicated that hydrogen and often carbon monoxide were released from the surfaces upon exposure to water vapor. This apparently resulted from adsorption of water vapor to displace hydrogen and carbon monoxide previously physisorbed during completion of metal deposition. There is also the possibility that hydrogen was produced through reduction of water molecules by the active clean metal surfaces. The ability of water to displace molecules previously physisorbed to the clean copper and silver surfaces, to yield a 0 contact angle on these surfaces, and possibly to reactchemically with the surfaces, all provide evidence that the clean, oxygen-free metal surfaces are decidedly hydrophilic in character.