Water at charged interfaces

G Gonella, EHG Backus, Y Nagata… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The ubiquity of aqueous solutions in contact with charged surfaces and the realization that
the molecular-level details of water–surface interactions often determine interfacial functions …

Oxide–and silicate–water interfaces and their roles in technology and the environment

JL Bañuelos, E Borguet, GE Brown Jr… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Interfacial reactions drive all elemental cycling on Earth and play pivotal roles in human
activities such as agriculture, water purification, energy production and storage …

Strong surface hydration and salt resistant mechanism of a new nonfouling zwitterionic polymer based on protein stabilizer TMAO

H Huang, C Zhang, R Crisci, T Lu… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Zwitterionic polymers exhibit excellent nonfouling performance due to their strong surface
hydrations. However, salt molecules may severely reduce the surface hydrations of typical …

The photochemical reaction of phenol becomes ultrafast at the air–water interface

R Kusaka, S Nihonyanagi, T Tahara - Nature Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
Reactions at the interface between water and other phases play important roles in nature
and in various chemical systems. Although some experimental and theoretical studies …

Water structure in the electrical double layer and the contributions to the total interfacial potential at different surface charge densities

B Rehl, E Ma, S Parshotam… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The electric double layer governs the processes of all charged surfaces in aqueous
solutions; however, elucidating the structure of the water molecules is challenging for even …

Surface hydration for antifouling and bio-adhesion

CA Del Grosso, C Leng, K Zhang, HC Hung… - Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Antifouling properties of materials play crucial roles in many important applications such as
biomedical implants, marine antifouling coatings, biosensing, and membranes for …

Nature of cations critically affects water at the negatively charged silica interface

J Hunger, J Schaefer, P Ober, T Seki… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Understanding the collective behavior of ions at charged surfaces is of paramount
importance for geological and electrochemical processes. Ions screen the surface charge …

Molecular hydrophobicity at a macroscopically hydrophilic surface

JD Cyran, MA Donovan, D Vollmer… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Interfaces between water and silicates are ubiquitous and relevant for, among others,
geochemistry, atmospheric chemistry, and chromatography. The molecular-level details of …

Role of ions on the surface-bound water structure at the silica/water interface: Identifying the spectral signature of stability

B Rehl, JM Gibbs - The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Isolating the hydrogen-bonding structure of water immediately at the surface is challenging,
even with surface-specific techniques like sum-frequency generation (SFG), because of the …

Wettability of graphene, water contact angle, and interfacial water structure

E Kim, D Kim, K Kwak, Y Nagata, M Bonn, M Cho - Chem, 2022 - cell.com
Understanding the details of water interacting with graphene is essential for various
applications, such as water desalination, energy storage, and catalysis. However, the …