Synergistic Assembly of Charged Oligomers and Amino Acids at the Air–Water Interface: An Avenue toward Surface-Directed CO2 Capture

UI Premadasa, N Kumar, Z Zhu… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Interfaces are considered a major bottleneck in the capture of CO2 from air. Efforts to design
surfaces to enhance CO2 capture probabilities are challenging due to the remarkably poor …

On the mechanisms of ion adsorption to aqueous interfaces: air-water vs. oil-water

SW Devlin, I Benjamin, RJ Saykally - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022 - pnas.org
The adsorption of ions to water-hydrophobe interfaces influences a wide range of
phenomena, including chemical reaction rates, ion transport across biological membranes …

Tracking molecular transport across oil/aqueous interfaces: Insight into “antagonistic” binding in solvent extraction

UI Premadasa, V Bocharova, L Lin… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Liquid/liquid (L/L) interfaces play a key, yet poorly understood, role in a range of complex
chemical phenomena where time-evolving interfacial structures and transient …

Considerations in upconversion: A practical guide to sum-frequency generation spectrometer design and implementation

B Doughty, L Lin, UI Premadasa, YZ Ma - Biointerphases, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
In this tutorial review, we discuss how the choice of upconversion pulse shape in broadband
vibrational sum-frequency generation (SFG) spectrometer design impacts the chemical or …

Chemical Feedback in the Self-Assembly and Function of Air–Liquid Interfaces: Insight into the Bottlenecks of CO2 Direct Air Capture

UI Premadasa, D Dong, D Stamberga… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
As fossil fuels remain a major source of energy throughout the world, develo** efficient
negative emission technologies, such as direct air capture (DAC), which remove carbon …

Physicochemical control of solvation and molecular assembly of charged amphiphilic oligomers at air-aqueous interfaces

Z Liu, L Lin, T Li, UI Premadasa, K Hong, YZ Ma… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Hypothesis: Understanding the rules that control the assembly of nanostructured soft
materials at interfaces is central to many applications. We hypothesize that electrolytes can …

Understanding self-assembly and the stabilization of liquid/liquid interfaces: The importance of ligand tail branching and oil-phase solvation

UI Premadasa, YZ Ma, RL Sacci, V Bocharova… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Hypothesis Organophosphorus-based ligands represent a versatile set of solvent extraction
reagents whose chemical makeup plays an important role in extraction mechanism. We …

Ion pairing and molecular orientation at liquid/liquid interfaces: Self-assembly and function

L Lin, AU Chowdhury, YZ Ma, RL Sacci… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Molecular orientation plays a pivotal role in defining the functionality and chemistry of
interfaces, yet accurate measurements probing this important feature are few, due, in part, to …

Liquid–Liquid Extraction of the Eu (III) Cation by BTP Ligands into Ionic Liquids: Interfacial Features and Extraction Mechanisms Investigated by MD Simulations

T Mangin, R Schurhammer, G Wipff - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
What happens at the ionic-liquid (IL)/water interface when the Eu3+ cation is complexed and
extracted by bis (dimethyltriazinyl) pyridine “BTP” ligands has been investigated by …

Squeezing out interfacial solvation: The role of hydrogen-bonding in the structural and orientational freedom of molecular self-assembly

Z Liu, L Lin, T Li, J Kinnun, K Hong, YZ Ma… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Bioinspired membrane molecules with improved physical properties and enhanced stability
can serve as functional models for conventional lipid or amphiphilic species. Importantly …