Synergistic Assembly of Charged Oligomers and Amino Acids at the Air–Water Interface: An Avenue toward Surface-Directed CO2 Capture

UI Premadasa, N Kumar, Z Zhu… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Interfaces are considered a major bottleneck in the capture of CO2 from air. Efforts to design
surfaces to enhance CO2 capture probabilities are challenging due to the remarkably poor …

Probing the electrolyte/electrode interface with vibrational sum frequency generation spectroscopy: A review

AU Chowdhury, N Muralidharan, C Daniel… - Journal of Power …, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the past decades, Lithium-ion batteries have seen extensive improvements, and as a
result are now the primary choice in many applications for their power, energy, and …

Additive manufacturing of strong silica sand structures enabled by polyethyleneimine binder

DB Gilmer, L Han, ML Lehmann, DH Siddel… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Binder Jet Additive Manufacturing (BJAM) is a versatile AM technique that can form
parts from a variety of powdered materials including metals, ceramics, and polymers. BJAM …

Tracking molecular transport across oil/aqueous interfaces: Insight into “antagonistic” binding in solvent extraction

UI Premadasa, V Bocharova, L Lin… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Liquid/liquid (L/L) interfaces play a key, yet poorly understood, role in a range of complex
chemical phenomena where time-evolving interfacial structures and transient …

Considerations in upconversion: A practical guide to sum-frequency generation spectrometer design and implementation

B Doughty, L Lin, UI Premadasa, YZ Ma - Biointerphases, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
In this tutorial review, we discuss how the choice of upconversion pulse shape in broadband
vibrational sum-frequency generation (SFG) spectrometer design impacts the chemical or …

Hydrogen-bond-driven chemical separations: Elucidating the interfacial steps of self-assembly in solvent extraction

AU Chowdhury, L Lin, B Doughty - ACS applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Chemical separations, particularly liquid extractions, are pervasive in academic and
industrial laboratories, yet a mechanistic understanding of the events governing their …

Adsorption, Orientation, and Speciation of Amino Acids at Air–Aqueous Interfaces for the Direct Air Capture of CO2

N Kumar, UI Premadasa, D Dong, S Roy, YZ Ma… - Langmuir, 2024 - ACS Publications
Amino acids make up a promising family of molecules capable of direct air capture (DAC) of
CO2 from the atmosphere. Under alkaline conditions, CO2 reacts with the anionic form of an …

Ice recrystallization inhibition activity of soy protein hydrolysates

M Fomich, VP Día, UI Premadasa… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Identifying and develo** ice recrystallization inhibitors from sustainable food proteins such
as soy protein isolate (SPI) can lead to practical applications in both pharmaceutical and …

Nanoparticle-induced disorder at complex liquid–liquid interfaces: Effects of curvature and compositional synergy on functional surfaces

CM Basham, UI Premadasa, YZ Ma, F Stellacci… - Acs Nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
The self-assembly of surfactant monolayers at interfaces plays a swee** role in tasks
ranging from household cleaning to the regulation of the respiratory system. The synergy …

Physicochemical control of solvation and molecular assembly of charged amphiphilic oligomers at air-aqueous interfaces

Z Liu, L Lin, T Li, UI Premadasa, K Hong, YZ Ma… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Hypothesis: Understanding the rules that control the assembly of nanostructured soft
materials at interfaces is central to many applications. We hypothesize that electrolytes can …