Spontaneous oxidation in aqueous microdroplets: water radical cation as primary oxidizing agent

L Qiu, RG Cooks - Angewandte Chemie, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Exploration of the unique chemical properties of interfaces can unlock new understanding. A
striking example is the finding of accelerated reactions, particularly spontaneous oxidation …

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 …

Evaluation of AlphaFold-Multimer prediction on multi-chain protein complexes

W Zhu, A Shenoy, P Kundrotas, A Elofsson - Bioinformatics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Despite near-experimental accuracy on single-chain predictions, there is still
scope for improvement among multimeric predictions. Methods like AlphaFold-Multimer and …

Water–solid contact electrification causes hydrogen peroxide production from hydroxyl radical recombination in sprayed microdroplets

B Chen, Y **a, R He, H Sang, W Zhang, J Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - pnas.org
Contact electrification between water and a solid surface is crucial for physicochemical
processes at water–solid interfaces. However, the nature of the involved processes remains …

Sprayed water microdroplets are able to generate hydrogen peroxide spontaneously

MA Mehrgardi, M Mofidfar, RN Zare - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Ultrapure N2 gas was bubbled through water, and the humidified output containing
undetectable concentrations of ozone filled a closed chamber in which 18 MΩ-cm water was …

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 …

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 …

Spontaneous reduction-induced degradation of viologen compounds in water microdroplets and its inhibition by host–guest complexation

C Gong, D Li, X Li, D Zhang, D **ng… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Water serves as an inert environment for the dispersion and application of many kinds of
herbicides. Viologen compounds, a type of widely used but highly toxic herbicide, are stable …

Capture of hydroxyl radicals by hydronium cations in water microdroplets

D **ng, Y Meng, X Yuan, S **, X Song… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the high stability of bulk water, water microdroplets possess strikingly different
properties, such as the presence of hydroxyl radicals (OH⋅) at the air–water interface …