Recent progress on sum-frequency spectroscopy

CS Tian, YR Shen - Surface Science Reports, 2014 - Elsevier
Second harmonic generation (SHG) and sum frequency spectroscopy (SFS) have provided
unique opportunities to probe surfaces and interfaces. They have found broad applications …

Biomolecular structure at solid–liquid interfaces as revealed by nonlinear optical spectroscopy

S Roy, PA Covert, WR FitzGerald, DK Hore - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
1. INTRODUCTION The attachment of biomolecules onto solid surfaces is fundamental to a
wide range of scientific, engineering, and industrial pursuits. 1, 2 For example, the …

Biomolecular imaging with coherent nonlinear vibrational microscopy

CYJ Chung, EO Potma - Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Optical imaging with spectroscopic vibrational contrast is a label-free solution for visualizing,
identifying, and quantifying a wide range of biomolecular compounds in biological materials …

Water structure at solid surfaces and its implications for biomolecule adsorption

KC Jena, DK Hore - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
The ordered arrangement of water molecules at solid surfaces is a consequence of
hydrogen-bonding opportunities, electrostatic and dipolar interactions, and specific …

Role of the cationic headgroup to conformational changes undergone by shorter alkyl chain surfactant and water molecules at the air-liquid interface

MR Khan, UI Premadasa, KLA Cimatu - Journal of colloid and interface …, 2020 - Elsevier
Hypothesis Surfactants are commonly used as corrosion inhibitors for oil-and-gas pipelines.
The alkyl chain of surfactants and their overall conformation contributes to the adsorption …

Spectral assignment and orientational analysis in a vibrational sum frequency generation study of DPPC monolayers at the air/water interface

RJ Feng, X Li, Z Zhang, Z Lu, Y Guo - The Journal of chemical physics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
The interfacial behavior of the benchmark zwitterionic phospholipid molecule
dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) has been extensively investigated by surface …

Chemical microscopy of surfaces by sum frequency generation imaging

KA Cimatu, S Baldelli - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2009 - ACS Publications
Sum frequency generation imaging microscopy has been developed and implemented in
different systems from self-assembled monolayer on metal surfaces to reaction of a metal …

Extracting structural information from the polarization dependence of one-and two-dimensional sum frequency generation spectra

JE Laaser, MT Zanni - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2013 - ACS Publications
We present ways in which pulse sequences and polarizations can be used to extract
structural information from one-and two-dimensional vibrational sum frequency generation …

In situ microscopy and spectroscopy applied to surfaces at work

HL Han, G Melaet, S Alayoglu, GA Somorjai - ChemCatChem, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The present review discusses the current state of the art microscopic and spectroscopic
characterization techniques available to study surfaces and interfaces under working …

Sum frequency generation imaging microscopy of self-assembled monolayers on metal surfaces: Factor analysis of mixed monolayers

AA Pikalov, D Ngo, HJ Lee, TR Lee… - Analytical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Sum frequency generation (SFG) images of microcontact patterned self-assembled
alkanethiol monolayers on metal surfaces were analyzed by factor analysis (FA) to …