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 …

Cation modifies interfacial water structures on platinum during alkaline hydrogen electrocatalysis

P Xu, R Wang, H Zhang, V Carnevale… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The molecular details of an electrocatalytic interface play an essential role in the production
of sustainable fuels and value-added chemicals. Many electrochemical reactions exhibit …

Probing interfacial water structure induced by charge reversal and hydrophobicity of silica surface in the presence of divalent heavy metal ions using sum frequency …

F Raji, CV Nguyen, NN Nguyen, TAH Nguyen… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hypothesis Adsorption of divalent heavy metal ions (DHMIs) at the mineral–water interfaces
changes interfacial chemical species and charges, interfacial water structure, Stern (SL) …

Prenatal double-hit with aluminium and cadmium mediate testicular atrophy and hypothalamic hypoplasia: the role of oxido-nitrergic stress and endocrine …

E Okhue, HE Kadiri, PC Ichipi-Ifukor, B Ben-Azu… - Biometals, 2024 - Springer
There is limited experimental evidence on the biochemical consequences of aluminium (Al)
and cadmium (Cd) co-exposures during pregnancy and postnatal life. This study …

Topological properties of interfacial hydrogen bond networks

R Wang, M DelloStritto, ML Klein, E Borguet… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Hydrogen bonds play a crucial role in the anomalous behavior of water. While the properties
of individual hydrogen bonds have been extensively studied, the topological characteristics …

Is the Local Ion Density Sufficient to Drive NaCl Nucleation from the Melt and Aqueous Solution?

R Wang, S Mehdi, Z Zou, P Tiwary - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Even though nucleation is ubiquitous in different science and engineering problems,
investigating nucleation is extremely difficult due to the complicated ranges of time and …

A Simplified Approach for Dynamic Contact Angle Measurements

Y Zou, N Ross, W Nawaj, E Borguet - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Contact angle measurement is a valuable tool for analyzing surface properties, including
surface structure, cleanliness, and solid–liquid interactions. Typically, this measurement is …

Identification by inelastic X-ray scattering of bulk alteration of solid dynamics due to liquid wetting

M Warburton, JM Ablett, JP Rueff, P Baroni… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
We examine the influence at room temperature of the deposit of a water layer on the phonon
dynamics of a solid. It is shown that the water wetting at the surface of an Alumina …

Understanding protein adsorption on silica mesoporous materials through thermodynamic simulations

WA Tárraga, AS Picco, GS Longo - Surfaces and Interfaces, 2024 - Elsevier
This work presents a molecular thermodynamic theory to study protein interactions within a
charge-regulating silica-like nanopore structure. The theory accounts for electrostatic …

Is the local ion density sufficient to drive NaCl nucleation in vacuum and in water?

R Wang, S Mehdi, Z Zou, P Tiwary - arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.09284, 2023 - arxiv.org
Even though nucleation is ubiquitous in different science and engineering problems,
investigating nucleation is extremely difficult due to the complicated ranges of time and …