Water adsorption and the wetting of metal surfaces

A Hodgson, S Haq - Surface science reports, 2009 - Elsevier
Water adsorption at metal surfaces is governed by a subtle balance between water–water
hydrogen bonding and water–metal interactions, which together determine the stability of …

Superfluid helium droplets: a uniquely cold nanomatrix for molecules and molecular complexes

JP Toennies, AF Vilesov - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, recent experiments on the spectroscopy and chemical reactions of molecules and
complexes embedded in helium droplets are reviewed. In the droplets, a high spectroscopic …

Water clusters: Untangling the mysteries of the liquid, one molecule at a time

FN Keutsch, RJ Saykally - Proceedings of the National …, 2001 - National Acad Sciences
Extensive terahertz laser vibration-rotation-tunneling spectra and mid-IR laser spectra have
been compiled for several isotopomers of small (dimer through hexamer) water clusters …

Infrared spectroscopy of size-selected water and methanol clusters

U Buck, F Huisken - Chemical Reviews, 2000 - ACS Publications
The investigation of structural and dynamical properties of weakly bound clusters has
attracted a great deal of interest in recent years. 1-5 They provide an exceptional tool to …

Formation of cyclic water hexamer in liquid helium: The smallest piece of ice

K Nauta, RE Miller - Science, 2000 - science.org
The cyclic water hexamer, a higher energy isomer than the cage structure previously
characterized in the gas phase, was formed in liquid helium droplets and studied with …

The Raman OH stretching bands of liquid water

Q Sun - Vibrational Spectroscopy, 2009 - Elsevier
In this work, from the discussion on water structure and clusters, it can be deduced that the
OH stretching vibration is closely related to local hydrogen-bonded network for a water …

Infrared spectroscopy of helium nanodroplets: novel methods for physics and chemistry

MY Choi, GE Douberly, TM Falconer… - … Reviews in Physical …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Helium nanodroplets have emerged as a new and exciting medium for studying the structure
and dynamics of both this quantum solvent and impurities that can be doped into (onto) and …

Spectroscopy of atoms and molecules in liquid helium

JP Toennies, AF Vilesov - Annual review of physical chemistry, 1998 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Laser ablation of in situ metals has recently made it possible to immerse a large
number of different metal atoms and ions and small clusters of metal atoms in liquid helium …

Cold physics and chemistry: Collisions, ionization and reactions inside helium nanodroplets close to zero K

A Mauracher, O Echt, AM Ellis, S Yang, DK Bohme… - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
This review provides a comprehensive overview of the applications of helium nanodroplets
in the study of ensembles of atoms and molecules, ie clusters and complexes. These …

The water trimer

FN Keutsch, JD Cruzan, RJ Saykally - Chemical reviews, 2003 - ACS Publications
Non-pairwise-additive or cooperative intermolecular forces may account for up to 25% of the
cohesive energy of bulk-phase water, most of which result from three-body effects. 1 …