Environmental chemistry at vapor/water interfaces: insights from vibrational sum frequency generation spectroscopy

AM Jubb, W Hua, HC Allen - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2012 - annualreviews.org
The chemistry that occurs at surfaces has been an intense area of study for many years
owing to its complexity and importance in describing a wide range of physical phenomena …

Challenges and opportunities in molecular-level indoor surface chemistry and physics

Y Liu, AG Bé, VW Or, MR Alves, VH Grassian… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2020 - cell.com
The high surface-to-volume ratio that is typical indoors makes surface chemistry and physics
particularly important to the study of air quality in these environments. However, surface …

Raman microspectroscopy and vibrational sum frequency generation spectroscopy as probes of the bulk and surface compositions of size-resolved sea spray aerosol …

AP Ault, D Zhao, CJ Ebben, MJ Tauber… - Physical Chemistry …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Sea spray aerosol (SSA) represents one of the largest aerosol components in our
atmosphere. SSA plays a major role in influencing climate; however the overall impacts …

Molecular Orientation at the Squalene/Air Interface from Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy and Atomistic Modeling

M Von Domaros, Y Liu, JL Butman, E Perlt… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Human skin oils are significant scavengers of atmospheric oxidants in occupied indoor
environments, and squalene is a major ozone-active constituent. Here, we present a …

Effect of ozone concentration and relative humidity on the heterogeneous oxidation of linoleic acid particles by ozone: an insight into the interchangeability of ozone …

Y Chu, TF Cheng, M Gen, CK Chan… - ACS Earth and Space …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Ozonolysis and autoxidation have been realized as important pathways for the
heterogeneous ozone oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids, but the relative significance …

Exploring the Rich Energy Landscape of Sulfate–Water Clusters SO42– (H2O)n=3–7: An Electronic Structure Approach

DS Lambrecht, GNI Clark, T Head-Gordon… - The Journal of …, 2011 - ACS Publications
We present a reinvestigation of sulfate–water clusters SO42–(H2O) n= 3–7, which involves
several new aspects. Using a joint molecular mechanics/first principles approach, we …

Regulation of the interfacial effects of thin polystyrene films by changing the aromatic group structure on substrate surfaces

Y Hong, W Chen, H Fang, B Zuo, Y Yuan… - The Journal of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
In this article, interfacial π–π interactions of polystyrene (PS) chains next to aromatic-
modified substrates were investigated. The results show that the glass transition temperature …

Vibrational mode assignment of α-pinene by isotope editing: One down, seventy-one to go

MA Upshur, HM Chase, BF Strick… - The Journal of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
This study aims to reliably assign the vibrational sum frequency generation (SFG) spectrum
of α-pinene at the vapor/solid interface using a method involving deuteration of various …

Organic constituents on the surfaces of aerosol particles from Southern Finland, Amazonia, and California Studied by vibrational sum frequency generation

CJ Ebben, M Shrestha, IS Martinez… - The Journal of …, 2012 - ACS Publications
This article summarizes and compares the analysis of the surfaces of natural aerosol
particles from three different forest environments by vibrational sum frequency generation …

Sum frequency generation spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations reveal a rotationally fluid adsorption state of α-pinene on silica

J Ho, BT Psciuk, HM Chase, B Rudshteyn… - The Journal of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
A rotationally fluid state of α-pinene at fused silica/vapor interfaces is revealed by
computational and experimental vibrational sum frequency generation (SFG) studies. We …