The spontaneous electron-mediated redox processes on sprayed water microdroplets

S **, H Chen, X Yuan, D **ng, R Wang, L Zhao… - JACS Au, 2023 - ACS Publications
Water is considered as an inert environment for the dispersion of many chemical systems.
However, by simply spraying bulk water into microsized droplets, the water microdroplets …

Chemical kinetics in microdroplets

KR Wilson, AM Prophet - Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Micrometer-sized compartments play significant roles in driving heterogeneous
transformations within atmospheric and biochemical systems as well as providing vehicles …

Hydrocarbon degradation by contact with anoxic water microdroplets

X Chen, Y **a, Z Zhang, L Hua, X Jia… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Oils are hydrophobic, but their degradation is frequently found to be accelerated in the
presence of water microdroplets. The direct chemical consequences of water–oil contact …

High electric fields on water microdroplets catalyze spontaneous and fast reactions in halogen-bond complexes

C Zhu, LN Pham, X Yuan, H Ouyang… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The use of external electric fields as green and efficient catalysts in synthetic chemistry has
recently received significant attention for their ability to deliver remarkable control of reaction …

The role of charge in microdroplet redox chemistry

JP Heindel, RA LaCour, T Head-Gordon - Nature communications, 2024 - nature.com
In charged water microdroplets, which occur in nature or in the lab upon ultrasonication or in
electrospray processes, the thermodynamics for reactive chemistry can be dramatically …

Electrostatics and chemical reactivity at the air–water interface

MTC Martins-Costa, MF Ruiz-López - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
It has been recently discovered that chemical reactions at aqueous interfaces can be orders
of magnitude faster compared to conventional bulk phase reactions, but despite its wide …

Mechanism of hydrogen peroxide formation on sprayed water microdroplets

AJ Colussi - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023 - ACS Publications
How is H2O2 formed in sprayed water is not well understood. It is believed to involve the
association of HO• radicals spontaneously generated from HO–ions by internal electric fields …

Spontaneous dark formation of OH radicals at the interface of aqueous atmospheric droplets

K Li, Y Guo, SA Nizkorodov, Y Rudich… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
Hydroxyl radical (OH) is a key oxidant that triggers atmospheric oxidation chemistry in both
gas and aqueous phases. The current understanding of its aqueous sources is mainly …

Harnessing the high interfacial electric fields on water microdroplets to accelerate Menshutkin reactions

Z Song, C Liang, K Gong, S Zhao, X Yuan… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Even though it is still an emerging field, the application of a high external electric field (EEF)
as a green and efficient catalyst in synthetic chemistry has recently received significant …

Size-dependent charge transfer between water microdroplets

S Lin, LNY Cao, Z Tang, ZL Wang - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023 - pnas.org
Contact electrification (CE) in water has attracted much attention, owing to its potential
impacts on the chemical reactions, such as the recent discovery of spontaneous generation …