We also analyzed the steady-state non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations and evaluated the steady-state density profiles of gold and water under each simulated heating power (Figure and S5, Supporting Information). In most cases, there were only minor changes in the height and width of the peak corresponding to the water adsorption layer with heating. However, in the poor wetting case the distinct peak for the adsorption layer near the 5 and 10 nm AuNPs disappeared at heating powers of Q = 4000 nW and Q = 8000 nW, respectively (Figure , Supporting Information), exhibiting signs of temperature induced desorption. Regardless, the temperature of water at the interfaces was well below the threshold for vapor nanobubble formation (Figure , Supporting Information). The gold particles were however molten in those cases (Figure ). Putting aside the two cases that exhibited signs of temperature induced desorption, under both wetting conditions the surface adsorption density ϱ was relatively unaffected by heating and did not exhibit any clear dependence on heat flux (Figure ). This result suggests that the amount of water in the first adsorption layer remains relatively constant during heating, and it is consistent with the temperature induced desorption being a threshold event that depends on both the water temperature and the gold wettability.