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 …

Where biology and traditional polymers meet: The potential of associating sequence-defined polymers for materials science

AJ DeStefano, RA Segalman, EC Davidson - Jacs Au, 2021 - ACS Publications
Polymers with precisely defined monomeric sequences present an exquisite tool for
controlling material properties by harnessing both the robustness of synthetic polymers and …

Hydrogen bonding and other non-covalent interactions at the surfaces of cellulose microfibrils

MC Jarvis - Cellulose, 2023 - Springer
It is now established that crystalline cellulose is held together not just by hydrogen bonding,
but also by dispersion forces and by electrostatic attraction modulated by stereoelectronic …

Liquid–liquid phase separation? Ask the water!

S Pezzotti, B König, S Ramos… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Water is more than an inert spectator during liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS), the
reversible compartmentalization of protein solutions into a protein-rich and a dilute phase …

In vivo direct imaging of neuronal activity at high temporospatial resolution

PT Toi, HJ Jang, K Min, SP Kim, SK Lee, J Lee, J Kwag… - Science, 2022 - science.org
There has been a long-standing demand for noninvasive neuroimaging methods that can
detect neuronal activity at both high temporal and high spatial resolution. We present a two …

Interfacial liquid water on graphite, graphene, and 2D materials

R Garcia - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
The optical, electronic, and mechanical properties of graphite, few-layer, and two-
dimensional (2D) materials have prompted a considerable number of applications …

Understanding hydrophobic effects: Insights from water density fluctuations

NB Rego, AJ Patel - Annual Review of Condensed Matter …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The aversion of hydrophobic solutes for water drives diverse interactions and assemblies
across materials science, biology, and beyond. Here, we review the theoretical …

Correlation between electrostatic and hydration forces on silica and gibbsite surfaces: An atomic force microscopy study

A Klaassen, F Liu, F Mugele, I Siretanu - Langmuir, 2022 - ACS Publications
The balance between hydration and Derjaguin–Landau–Verwey–Overbeek (DLVO) forces
at solid–liquid interfaces controls many processes, such as colloidal stability, wetting …

The key role of solvent in condensation: Mapping water in liquid-liquid phase-separated FUS

J Ahlers, EM Adams, V Bader, S Pezzotti… - Biophysical journal, 2021 - cell.com
Formation of biomolecular condensates through liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) has
emerged as a pervasive principle in cell biology, allowing compartmentalization and …

Anomalous properties of cyclodextrins and their complexes in aqueous solutions

T Loftsson, HH Sigurdsson, P Jansook - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cyclodextrins (CDs) are cyclic oligosaccharides that emerged as industrial excipients in the
early 1970s and are currently found in at least 130 marketed pharmaceutical products, in …