Ionic liquids (ILs) are a special category of molten salts solely composed of ions with varied
molecular symmetry and charge delocalization. The versatility in combining varied cation …

The field of photocatalysis can be traced back more than 80 years to early observations of
the chalking of titania-based paints and to studies of the darkening of metal oxides in contact …

Existing texts on the statistical mechanics of liquids treat only spherical molecules. However,
nearly all fluids of practical interest are composed of non-spherical molecules that are often …

Aqueous ion-containing interfaces are ubiquitous and play a key role in a plethora of
physical, chemical, atmospheric, and biological processes, from which we mention just a few …

Although the importance of water interfaces has long been well recognized, studies of the
interfaces at the molecular level only began more recently. 1-3 The difficulty lies in the fact …

Sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy (SFG-VS) has been proven to be a
uniquely effective spectroscopic technique in the investigation of molecular structure and …

Vibrational sum-frequency generation (VSFG) spectroscopy is a powerful tool to study
interfaces. Recently, multiplex heterodyne-detected VSFG (HD-VSFG) has been developed …

The structure of liquid water, its role in the solvation of ionic and neutral species, and its
effects on chemical reactions have been the focus of research for over a century, 1-12 and …

Phase-sensitive sum-frequency spectroscopy (SFS) allows the complete measurement of
the complex spectra of surface nonlinear response coefficients. Similar to linear …

Air− aqueous sodium halide solution interfaces are examined using vibrational sum
frequency generation spectroscopy. Raman and ATR-FTIR (attenuated total reflection …