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 …

Separating the pH-dependent behavior of water in the stern and diffuse layers with varying salt concentration

AM Darlington, TA Jarisz… - The Journal of …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Vibrational sum frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy was utilized to distinguish
different populations of water molecules within the electric double layer (EDL) at the …

Interfacial Structure and Electric Field Probed by in Situ Electrochemical Vibrational Stark Effect Spectroscopy and Computational Modeling

A Ge, PE Videla, GL Lee, B Rudshteyn… - The Journal of …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Interfacial electric fields play crucial roles in electrochemistry, catalysis, and solar energy
conversion. Understanding of the interfacial electric field effects has been hindered by the …

Molecular Orientation at the Squalene/Air Interface from Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy and Atomistic Modeling

M Von Domaros, Y Liu, JL Butman, E Perlt… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Human skin oils are significant scavengers of atmospheric oxidants in occupied indoor
environments, and squalene is a major ozone-active constituent. Here, we present a …

Atmospheric β-caryophyllene-derived ozonolysis products at interfaces

AG Bé, HM Chase, Y Liu, MA Upshur… - ACS Earth and Space …, 2018 - ACS Publications
By integrating organic synthesis, secondary organic aerosol synthesis and collection,
density functional theory (DFT) calculations, and vibrational sum frequency generation …

Order-disorder transition of carboxyl terminated chains in polydiacetylenes vesicles probed by second harmonic generation and two-photon fluorescence

S Chen, X Zhu, F Yang, X Pan, W Gan… - Chinese Journal of …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
To understand and control the interfacial properties of polydiacetylenes (PDAs) vesicles with
π-conjugated backbone is very important for their colorimetric sensing of chemical and …

Surface-Active β-Caryophyllene Oxidation Products at the Air/Aqueous Interface

AG Bé, Y Liu, A Tuladhar, AD Bellcross… - ACS Earth and Space …, 2019 - ACS Publications
We examine synthesized standards of structurally related β-caryophyllene ozonolysis
products at the air/water and air/ammonium sulfate (aq) interfaces using polarization …

Vibrational Sum-Frequency Generation Spectroscopy in the Energy Representation from Dual-Level Molecular Dynamics Simulations

MTC Martins-Costa, MF Ruiz-López - The Journal of Physical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We report a cost-effective molecular dynamics approach to calculate sum-frequency
generation (SFG) vibrational spectra of molecular species at liquid interfaces in the energy …

Surface Chemistry of Organic Molecules in Atmospheric and Indoor Environments Investigated by Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy

Y Liu - 2021 - search.proquest.com
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Surface Chemistry of Organic Molecules in Atmospheric
and Indoor Environments Investigated by Sum Freque Page 1 NORTHWESTERN …