Structures and processes at water/metal interfaces play an important technological role in
electrochemical energy conversion and storage, photoconversion, sensors, and corrosion …

Water/solid interfaces are relevant to a broad range of physicochemical phenomena and
technological processes such as corrosion, lubrication, heterogeneous catalysis and …

Heterogeneous chemical reactions at vapor/solid interfaces play an important role in many
processes in the environment and technology. Ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron …

Water adsorption at metal surfaces is governed by a subtle balance between water–water
hydrogen bonding and water–metal interactions, which together determine the stability of …

Understanding water/solid interactions is of great importance in a variety of fundamental and
technological processes, such as photocatalytic water splitting, heterogeneous catalysis …

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) is a powerful tool for surface and interface analysis,
providing the elemental composition of surfaces and the local chemical environment of …

Solid–liquid interfaces have received considerable attention in recent years due to their
central role in many technologically relevant fields like electrochemistry, heterogeneous …

Studies of the structure of supported water clusters provide a means for obtaining a rigorous
molecular-scale description of the initial stages of heterogeneous ice nucleation: a process …

The interaction of water molecules with metal surfaces is typically weak and as a result van
der Waals (vdW) forces can be expected to be of importance. Here we account for the …

Local defects in water layers growing on metal surfaces have a key influence on the wetting
process at the surfaces; however, such minor structures are undetectable by macroscopic …