Water adsorption and the wetting of metal surfaces

A Hodgson, S Haq - Surface science reports, 2009 - Elsevier
Water adsorption at metal surfaces is governed by a subtle balance between water–water
hydrogen bonding and water–metal interactions, which together determine the stability of …

Molecular structure of water at interfaces: Wetting at the nanometer scale

A Verdaguer, GM Sacha, H Bluhm… - Chemical reviews, 2006 - ACS Publications
The structure of water at the interface with other materials is thought to determine their
wetting properties and underlies the vast array of phenomena known under the names of …

[HTML][HTML] Quantitative characterization of oxygen-containing groups on the surface of carbon materials: XPS and NEXAFS study

DV Sivkov, OV Petrova, SV Nekipelov, AS Vinogradov… - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The results of the comparative quantitative study of oxygen-containing groups adsorbed on
the surface of carbonized sponge scaffold (CSS), highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) …

A one-dimensional ice structure built from pentagons

J Carrasco, A Michaelides, M Forster, S Haq, R Raval… - Nature materials, 2009 - nature.com
Heterogeneous ice nucleation has a key role in fields as diverse as atmospheric chemistry
and biology. Ice nucleation on metal surfaces affords an opportunity to watch this process …

Solvent effects in the hydrogenation of 2-butanone

BS Akpa, C D'agostino, LF Gladden, K Hindle… - Journal of catalysis, 2012 - Elsevier
In liquid-phase reaction systems, the role of the solvent is often limited to the simple
requirement of dissolving and/or diluting substrates. However, the correct choice, either pure …

How does water wet a surface?

S Maier, M Salmeron - Accounts of chemical research, 2015 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The adsorption and reactions of water on surfaces has attracted great interest,
as water is involved in many physical and chemical processes at interfaces. On metal …

Recent advances in the molecular-level understanding of catalytic hydrogenation and oxidation reactions at metal-aqueous interfaces

Y Gu, L Wang, BQ Xu, H Shi - Chinese Journal of Catalysis, 2023 - Elsevier
Solid-aqueous interfaces and their associated phenomena (adsorption, nucleation,
corrosion, catalysis, etc.) are ubiquitous in a multitude of chemical systems linking various …

Observation of the dynamical change in a water monolayer adsorbed on a ZnO surface

O Dulub, B Meyer, U Diebold - Physical review letters, 2005 - APS
A combined scanning tunneling microscopy and density-functional theory (DFT) study
shows a rich structure of water monolayers adsorbed on ZnO (10 1¯ 0) at room temperature …

Ruthenium triazine composite: a good match for increasing hydrogen evolution activity through contact electrification

Q Ju, R Ma, Y Pei, B Guo, Z Li, Q Liu… - Advanced Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The development of Pt‐free catalysts for the alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction (HER),
which is widely used in industrial scale water‐alkali electrolyzers, remains a contemporary …

Density functional theory simulations of water–metal interfaces: waltzing waters, a novel 2D ice phase, and more

A Michaelides - Applied Physics A, 2006 - Springer
There are few molecules, if any, more important than water. Yet remarkably little is known
about how it interacts with solid surfaces, particularly at the all important atomic level. This is …