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 …

A Happy Get‐Together–Probing Electrochemical Interfaces by Non‐Linear Vibrational Spectroscopy

R De, B Dietzek‐Ivanšić - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Electrochemical interfaces are key structures in energy storage and catalysis. Hence, a
molecular understanding of the active sites at these interfaces, their solvation, the structure …

Cation modifies interfacial water structures on platinum during alkaline hydrogen electrocatalysis

P Xu, R Wang, H Zhang, V Carnevale… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The molecular details of an electrocatalytic interface play an essential role in the production
of sustainable fuels and value-added chemicals. Many electrochemical reactions exhibit …

Surface-adsorbed CO as an infrared probe of electrocatalytic interfaces

CM Gunathunge, J Li, X Li, MM Waegele - ACS Catalysis, 2020 - ACS Publications
Electrocatalytic interfaces enable chemical transformations of fundamental and
technological significance that are challenging to achieve by other means. Examples …

Water capture mechanisms at zeolitic imidazolate framework interfaces

JC Wagner, KM Hunter, F Paesani… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Water capture mechanisms of zeolitic imidazolate framework ZIF-90 are revealed by
differentiating the water clustering and the center pore filling step, using vibrational sum …

Quantification of Stern Layer Water Molecules, Total Potentials, and Energy Densities at Fused Silica: Water Interfaces for Adsorbed Alkali Chlorides, CTAB, PFOA …

HB Chang, EH Lozier, E Ma… - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We have employed amplitude-and phase-resolved second-harmonic generation
spectroscopy to investigate ion-specific effects of monovalent cations at the fused silica …

Chemical Potential Driven Reorganization of Anions between Stern and Diffuse Layers at the Air/Water Interface

RR Kumal, S Nayak, W Bu, A Uysal - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Ion adsorption and transfer at charged interfaces play key roles in various industrial and
environmental processes. Molecular scale details of ion–ion, ion–water, and ion–surface …

Ion pairing mediates molecular organization across liquid/liquid interfaces

L Lin, AU Chowdhury, YZ Ma, RL Sacci… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Liquid/liquid interfaces play a central role in scientific fields ranging from nanomaterial
synthesis and soft matter electronics to nuclear waste remediation and chemical …

Superhydrophilicity of α-alumina surfaces results from tight binding of interfacial waters to specific aluminols

R Wang, Y Zou, RC Remsing, NO Ross… - Journal of colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Hypothesis Understanding the microscopic driving force of water wetting is challenging and
important for design of materials. The relations between structure, dynamics and hydrogen …

Optical spectroscopy of surfaces, interfaces, and thin films

TJ Blackburn, SM Tyler, JE Pemberton - Analytical Chemistry, 2022 - ACS Publications
Efforts to characterize solid/liquid, solid/gas, liquid/gas, liquid/liquid, and liquid/gas
interfaces utilizing optical spectroscopies in the ultraviolet− visible (UV− vis), infrared (IR) …