Interfacial reactions drive all elemental cycling on Earth and play pivotal roles in human
activities such as agriculture, water purification, energy production and storage …

Persulfate-based advanced oxidation processes (P-AOPs), as the commonly used
technologies, attract intensive attention, because persulfate is stable and safe with various …

The structure and ultrafast dynamics of the electric double layer (EDL) are central to
chemical reactivity and physical properties at solid/aqueous interfaces. While the Gouy …

The scarcity of water resources for mining activities drives the search for new low-quality
water sources such as well-water and seawater. Seawater was found to be a promising …

Second harmonic generation amplitude and phase measurements are acquired in real time
from fused silica: water interfaces that are subjected to ionic strength transitions conducted …

It is important to understand the properties of interfacial water at mineral surfaces. Since
calcite is one of the most common minerals found in rocks and sedimentary deposits, and …

Ion-specific effects play a crucial role in controlling the stability of colloidal systems and
regulating interfacial processes. Although mechanistic pictures have been developed to …

The adsorption of partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide (HPAM) on quartz plays a key role in
solid-liquid separation processes that seek to recover water for processing. In this work …

We have employed amplitude-and phase-resolved second-harmonic generation
spectroscopy to investigate ion-specific effects of monovalent cations at the fused silica …

Individual alkali (Na+, K+) and halide (Cl–, I–) ion effects have been characterized at the
fully hydroxylated (0001) α-quartz water interface by means of ab initio molecular dynamics …