Atmospheric aerosol chemistry: Spectroscopic and microscopic advances

AP Ault, JL Axson - Analytical chemistry, 2017 - ACS Publications
Atmospheric aerosols, solid or liquid particles suspended in the atmosphere, range in size
from 1 nm to> 100 μm and come from a wide variety of sources. 1 As such, aerosols have a …

Environmental chemistry at vapor/water interfaces: insights from vibrational sum frequency generation spectroscopy

AM Jubb, W Hua, HC Allen - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2012 - annualreviews.org
The chemistry that occurs at surfaces has been an intense area of study for many years
owing to its complexity and importance in describing a wide range of physical phenomena …

Orientation determination of interfacial β-sheet structures in situ

KT Nguyen, JT King, Z Chen - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Structural information such as orientations of interfacial proteins and peptides is important
for understanding properties and functions of such biological molecules, which play crucial …

Orientation determination of protein helical secondary structures using linear and nonlinear vibrational spectroscopy

KT Nguyen, SV Le Clair, S Ye… - The journal of physical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
In this paper, we systematically presented the orientation determination of protein helical
secondary structures using vibrational spectroscopic methods, particularly, nonlinear sum …

Effect of hydrogen-bond strength on the vibrational relaxation of interfacial water

A Eftekhari-Bafrooei, E Borguet - Journal of the American …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Time-resolved sum frequency generation (tr-SFG) reveals that the vibrational energy
relaxation rate of O− H stretching of dilute HDO in D2O at the silica interface is markedly …

[HTML][HTML] Pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass waste mixtures using a low-cost ionic liquid

S Jain, H Mahalingam - Sustainable Chemistry for Climate Action, 2024 - Elsevier
Pretreatment is a critical step in bioethanol production, impacting both cost and
environmental sustainability. Traditional acid and alkali methods are expensive due to the …

In-situ probe of gate dielectric-semiconductor interfacial order in organic transistors: Origin and control of large performance sensitivities

SR Walter, J Youn, JD Emery… - Journal of the …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Organic thin film transistor (OTFT) performance is highly materials interface-dependent, and
dramatic performance enhancements can be achieved by properly modifying the …

In situ molecular level studies on membrane related peptides and proteins in real time using sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy

S Ye, KT Nguyen, SV Le Clair, Z Chen - Journal of structural biology, 2009 - Elsevier
Sum frequency generation (SFG) vibrational spectroscopy has been demonstrated to be a
powerful technique to study the molecular structures of surfaces and interfaces in different …

Challenges and opportunities in molecular-level indoor surface chemistry and physics

Y Liu, AG Bé, VW Or, MR Alves, VH Grassian… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2020 - cell.com
The high surface-to-volume ratio that is typical indoors makes surface chemistry and physics
particularly important to the study of air quality in these environments. However, surface …

Size-resolved sea spray aerosol particles studied by vibrational sum frequency generation

CJ Ebben, AP Ault, MJ Ruppel, OS Ryder… - The Journal of …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We present vibrational sum frequency generation (SFG) spectra of the external surfaces and
the internal interfaces of size-selected sea spray aerosol (SSA) particles generated at the …