The interaction between minerals and water is manifold and complex: the mineral surface
can be (de) protonated by water, thereby changing its charge; mineral ions dissolved into …

Biotechnological approaches to practical production of biological protein-based adhesives
have had limited success over the last several decades. Broader efforts to produce …

Ordering of interfacial water at the hematite and corundum (001)–water interfaces has been
characterized using in situ high resolution specular X-ray reflectivity measurements. The …

Elucidation of water organization at aqueous interfaces has remained a challenging
problem. Conventional vibrational sum frequency generation (VSFG) spectroscopy and its …

The role of the oxide support on the structure of the MoS2 active phase (size, morphology,
orientation, sulfidation ratio, etc.) remains an open question in hydrotreating catalysis and …

Oxide/water interfaces are ubiquitous in a wide variety of applications and the environment.
Despite this ubiquity, and attendant decades of study, gaining molecular level insight into …

A tentative picture for the charging of the sapphire basal plane in dilute electrolyte solutions
allows reconciliation of the available experimental observations within a dual charging …

Mineral/aqueous interfaces are ubiquitous in geochemistry and are employed for
applications spanning catalysis to CO 2 sequestration. Small changes in interface …

Steady-state and time-resolved vibrational sum frequency generation (vSFG) were used to
investigate the structure and dynamics of water at the α-Al2O3 (0001) surface. The vSFG …

We investigated the atomic structure and infrared spectra of the alumina (0001)/water
interface, using first-principles molecular dynamics simulations based on density functional …