Structure and charging of hydrophobic material/water interfaces studied by phase-sensitive sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy

CS Tian, YR Shen - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
We have studied the hydrophobic water/octadecyltrichlorosilane (OTS) interface by using
the phase-sensitive sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy (PS-SFVS), and we obtained …

Self-accumulation of aromatics at the oil− water interface through weak hydrogen bonding

M Kunieda, K Nakaoka, Y Liang… - Journal of the …, 2010 - ACS Publications
It is well-known that the amphiphilic solutes are surface-active and can accumulate at the
oil− water interface. Here, we have investigated the water and a light-oil model interface by …

Molecular dynamics studies of fluid/oil interfaces for improved oil recovery processes

LS de Lara, MF Michelon… - The Journal of Physical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
In our paper, we study the interface wettability, diffusivity, and molecular orientation between
crude oil and different fluids for applications in improved oil recovery (IOR) processes …

Water at surfaces with tunable surface chemistries

SE Sanders, H Vanselous… - Journal of Physics …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Aqueous interfaces are ubiquitous in natural environments, spanning atmospheric,
geological, oceanographic, and biological systems, as well as in technical applications …

Platinum nanostructures at the liquid–liquid interface: catalytic reduction of p-nitrophenol to p-aminophenol

SJ Hoseini, M Rashidi, M Bahrami - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Platinum nanostructures were synthesized by reduction of the PtCl2 (SMe2) 2 complex at
the interface between water and toluene at room temperature. Platinum nanosheets were …

[HTML][HTML] Sulfolane facilitates diisopropylamine dissolution in water, potentially enhancing pollutant transport

E Pensini, AG Marangoni, S Prévost - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2025 - Elsevier
Diisopropylamine (DIPA) and sulfolane are emerging groundwater co-contaminants, used in
different industrial processes including carbon capture. In binary aqueous mixtures …

Ordered polyelectrolyte assembly at the oil–water interface

DK Beaman, EJ Robertson… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Polyelectrolytes (PEs) are widely used in applications such as water purification, wastewater
treatment, and mineral recovery. Although much has been learned in past decades about …

Osmolyte effects: impact on the aqueous solution around charged and neutral spheres

J Smiatek - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2014 - ACS Publications
We have performed atomistic molecular dynamics simulations to study the solvation
characteristics of model spheres for low concentrations of urea and hydroxyectoine in …

Ab initio and classical molecular dynamics studies of the structural and dynamical behavior of water near a hydrophobic graphene sheet

MK Rana, A Chandra - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
The behavior of water near a graphene sheet is investigated by means of ab initio and
classical molecular dynamics simulations. The wetting of the graphene sheet by ab initio …

Interfacial structure and wetting properties of water droplets on graphene under a static electric field

H Ren, L Zhang, X Li, Y Li, W Wu, H Li - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The behavior of water droplets located on graphene in the presence of various external
electric fields (E-fields) is investigated using classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations …