It has been over 250 years since Benjamin Franklin, fascinated with the wave-stilling effect
of oil on water, performed his famous oil-drop experiments; nevertheless, the behavior of …

Aqueous interfaces, including water, ice, and electrolyte solutions, are ubiquitous and play
crucial roles in diverse fields of chemistry. Such interfaces are relevant to electrodes in …

Contact electrification (CE) at interfaces is sensitive to the functional groups on the solid
surface, but its mechanism is poorly understood, especially for the liquid–solid cases. A core …

We have studied the hydrophobic water/octadecyltrichlorosilane (OTS) interface by using
the phase-sensitive sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy (PS-SFVS), and we obtained …

A new method is presented to identify the truly interfacial molecules at fluid/fluid interfaces
seen at molecular resolution, a situation that regularly occurs in computer simulations. In the …

Compared to the enormous number of nanostructures that have been documented, the
variety of nanostructures produced by organic polymerization is rather limited. We devised …

We have used visible-infrared sum-frequency generation spectroscopy to study the structure
of water molecules that form the interface with fused silica. Spectra throughout the OH …

The stabilization of nanoemulsions, nanosized oil droplets dispersed in water, is commonly
achieved through the addition of surfactants and polymers. However, nanoemulsions in the …

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 …

We studied by molecular dynamics simulations the temperature dependence of hydrophobic
association and drying transition of large-scale solutes. Similar to the behavior of small …