As the most common but indispensable matter to humankind, water usually stays in a
macroscopically electric neutral state. Due to its inherent molecular polarity, however, water …

Development of new reactions requires finding and understanding of novel reaction
pathways. In challenging reactions such as C–H activations, these pathways often involve …

Amide bond formation, the essential condensation reaction underlying peptide synthesis, is
hindered in aqueous systems by the thermodynamic constraints associated with …

Nanoplastic particles are inadequately characterized environmental pollutants that have
adverse effects on aquatic and atmospheric systems, causing detrimental effects to human …

Electrospray and Electrosonic Spray Ionization Mass Spectrometry (ESI-MS and ESSI-MS)
have been widely used to report evidence that many chemical reactions in micro-and nano …

Spontaneous oxidation of compounds containing diverse X= Y moieties (eg, sulfonamides,
ketones, esters, sulfones) occurs readily in organic-solvent microdroplets. This surprising …

Enzymatic digestion for protein sequencing usually requires much time, and does not
always result in high sequence coverage. Here we report the use of aqueous microdroplets …

Accelerated reactions in microdroplets have been reported for a wide range of reactions with
some microdroplet reactions occurring over a million times faster than the same reaction in …

The surface composition of aerosol droplets is central to predicting cloud droplet number
concentrations, understanding atmospheric pollutant transformation, and interpreting …

Peptide formation from amino acids is thermodynamically unfavorable but a recent study
provided evidence that the reaction occurs at the air/solution interfaces of aqueous …