The interfacial regions between bulk media, although often comprising only a fraction of the
material present, are frequently the site of reactions and phenomena that dominate the …

Sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy (SFG-VS) has been proven to be a
uniquely effective spectroscopic technique in the investigation of molecular structure and …

1. INTRODUCTION A fundamental understanding of chiral biomacromolecules at aqueous
interfaces is critical to studying a host of important phenomena in modern biology, chemistry …

Sum-frequency spectroscopy (SFS) is a non-linear optical technique that yields vibrational
spectra of molecules at interfaces. A brief summary of the theoretical background to SFS is …

Optical second harmonic generation (SHG) is the nonlinear conversion of two photons of
frequency «to a single photonof frequency 2co which, in the electric dipole approximation …

It has been long recognized that the surface chemistry of silica, and in particular the type and
relative amount of surface bound silanol groups, plays a critical role in many of the …

At the level of individual molecules, familiar concepts of heat transport no longer apply.
When large amounts of heat are transported through a molecule, a crucial process in …

Using surface plasmon resonance (SPR) spectroscopy in the Kretschmann configuration,
we followed the self-assembly of organic ultrathin films which resulted from exposure of gold …

We present a novel procedure for vibrationally resolved sum-frequency generation (SFG) in
which a broad-bandwidth IR pulse is mixed with a narrow-bandwidth visible pulse. The …

Vibrational sum-frequency spectroscopy (SFS) and total internal reflection Raman scattering
(TIR Raman) have been used to study the adsorption of hexadecyltrimethylammonium …