Interfacial reactions drive all elemental cycling on Earth and play pivotal roles in human
activities such as agriculture, water purification, energy production and storage …

The interfaces of neat water and aqueous solutions play a prominent role in many
technological processes and in the environment. Examples of aqueous interfaces are …

Solid catalysts are very useful functional materials, which are used in 90% of industrial
processes. The most important are the supported ones. In these catalysts, nanoparticles of …

Our understanding of the “long range” electrodynamic, electrostatic, and polar interactions
that dominate the organization of small objects at separations beyond an interatomic bond …

Understanding the structural dynamics/evolution of catalysts and the related surface
chemistry is essential for establishing structure–catalysis relationships, where spectroscopic …

The interaction between water (H2O) and titanium dioxide (TiO2) has a central role in many
environment-and energy-related applications, such as the photodecomposition of organic …

The structure and dynamic properties of interfacial water at the graphite and silica solid
surfaces were investigated using molecular dynamics simulations. The effect of surface …

Currently, energy and environmental problems are becoming more serious. The use of solar
energy to split water and produce clean, renewable hydrogen as an energy source is a …

The zeta potential (ZP) is an oft-reported measure of the macroscopic charge state of solid
surfaces and colloidal particles in contact with solvents. However, the origin of this readily …

The nature of the hydrophobicity found in rare‐earth oxides is intriguing. The CeO2 (100)
surface, despite its strongly hydrophilic nature, exhibits hydrophobic behaviour when …