Electrostatic charging due to separation of ions at interfaces: contact electrification of ionic electrets

LS McCarty, GM Whitesides - … Chemie International Edition, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
This Review discusses ionic electrets: their preparation, their mechanisms of formation, tools
for their characterization, and their applications. An electret is a material that has a …

Molecular structure of water at interfaces: Wetting at the nanometer scale

A Verdaguer, GM Sacha, H Bluhm… - Chemical reviews, 2006 - ACS Publications
The structure of water at the interface with other materials is thought to determine their
wetting properties and underlies the vast array of phenomena known under the names of …

An overview of current issues in the uptake of atmospheric trace gases by aerosols and clouds

CE Kolb, RA Cox, JPD Abbatt… - Atmospheric …, 2010 - acp.copernicus.org
A workshop was held in the framework of the ACCENT (Atmospheric Composition Change–
a European Network) Joint Research Programme on" Aerosols" and the Programme on" …

Engineering polymer interfaces: a review toward controlling triboelectric surface charge

A Šutka, L Lapčinskis, D He, H Kim… - Advanced Materials …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Contact electrification and triboelectric charging are areas of intense research. Despite their
low ability to accept or donate electrons, polymer insulator based triboelectric …

Mineral–water interfacial structures revealed by synchrotron X-ray scattering

P Fenter, NC Sturchio - Progress in Surface Science, 2004 - Elsevier
Chemical reactions occurring at the mineral–water interface are controlled by an interfacial
layer, nanometers thick, whose properties may deviate from those of the respective bulk …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of hydrocarbon adsorption on the wettability of rare earth oxide ceramics

DJ Preston, N Miljkovic, J Sack, R Enright… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Vapor condensation is routinely used as an effective means of transferring heat, with
dropwise condensation exhibiting a 5− 7x heat transfer improvement compared to filmwise …

Electrical Resistance of AgTS–S(CH2)n−1CH3//Ga2O3/EGaIn Tunneling Junctions

L Cademartiri, MM Thuo, CA Nijhuis… - The Journal of …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Tunneling junctions having the structure AgTS–S (CH2) n− 1CH3//Ga2O3/EGaIn allow
physical–organic studies of charge transport across self-assembled monolayers (SAMs). In …

Reactions at surfaces in the atmosphere: integration of experiments and theory as necessary (but not necessarily sufficient) for predicting the physical chemistry of …

BJ Finlayson-Pitts - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
While particles have significant deleterious impacts on human health, visibility and climate,
quantitative understanding of their formation, composition and fates remains problematic …

The role of intermolecular forces in contact electrification on polymer surfaces and triboelectric nanogenerators

A Šutka, K Mālnieks, L Lapčinskis, P Kaufelde… - Energy & …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The contact electrification of polymer interfaces provides an energy harvesting function to
triboelectric (nano) generators (TEG). The electron transfer between contacted-separated …

Highly focused supersonic microjets

Y Tagawa, N Oudalov, CW Visser, IR Peters… - Physical review X, 2012 - APS
This paper describes the production of thin, focused microjets with velocities of up to 850 m/s
by the rapid vaporization of a small mass of liquid in an open liquid-filled capillary. The …