The ability to obtain a molecular-level understanding of the chemistry that takes place at
liquid/solid interfaces is key to the development and improvement of many chemical and …

Nanotechnology is a multidisciplinary field that covers a vast and diverse array of devices
and machines derived from engineering, physics, materials science, chemistry and biology …

The first book on the topic, and written by the founder of the technique, this comprehensive
resource provides a detailed overview of sum-frequency spectroscopy, its fundamental …

Second harmonic generation (SHG) and sum frequency spectroscopy (SFS) have provided
unique opportunities to probe surfaces and interfaces. They have found broad applications …

Surface vibrational spectroscopy has developed rapidly over the past decades, thanks to the
advent of ultrashort tunable laser pulses in the mid-infrared range. In particular, femtosecond …

The water surface has always been a difficult system to study even from early classic
investigations. 1− 3 The lack of techniques, the ease of contamination, and its dynamic …

Time-resolved sum frequency generation (tr-SFG) reveals that the vibrational energy
relaxation rate of O− H stretching of dilute HDO in D2O at the silica interface is markedly …

The dynamics of water at mineral surfaces has attracted much attention due to the marked
differences, compared to the bulk, in the ability of interfacial water populations to redistribute …

Vibrational energy transfer (VET) of proteins at cell membrane plays critical roles in
controlling the protein functionalities, but its detection is very challenging. By using a surface …

Interfaces of liquid water play a critical role in a wide variety of processes that occur in
biology, a variety of technologies, and the environment. Many macroscopic observations …