Figure 4
From: Deciphering the molecular mechanism of water boiling at heterogeneous interfaces
Explosive boiling configurations were obtained by overheating the system from 396 to 800 K using two different mZrO2 surface planes. The yellow iso-surfaces represent the voids inside the water phase. Voids are defined as a set of points in space separated by at least 3 Å distance from any water molecule19. The subfigures (a–c) correspond to the interface (− 111) and the (d–f) to the (001). It was observed that in the simulations with the (001) surface, a larger number of cavities are formed at the solid liquid-interface indicating the hydrophobic character of this interface. See Fig. 1 capture for the description of the color scheme. Images were created using VMD v1.9.447.
