Benefiting from loose assembly conditions, a high level of safety and environmentally
friendly characteristics, rechargeable aqueous Zn-ion batteries (AZIBs) have attracted …

Breakthroughs in molecular and materials discovery require meaningful outliers to be
identified in existing trends. As knowledge accumulates, the inherent bias of human intuition …

Understanding the structure and dynamic process of water at the solid–liquid interface is an
extremely important topic in surface science, energy science and catalysis,–. As model …

Scanning probe microscopy (SPM), a key invention in nanoscience, has by now been
extended to a wide spectrum of basic and applied fields. Its application to basic science led …

Solid/liquid interfaces are ubiquitous in nature and knowledge of their atomic-level structure
is essential in elucidating many phenomena in chemistry, physics, materials science and …

Ion hydration and transport at interfaces are relevant to a wide range of applied fields and
natural processes,,,–. Interfacial effects are particularly profound in confined geometries …

The notion of asymmetrical Hydrogen Bond (O: HO) Cooperativity and Polarizability (HBCP)
has enabled exploration of the core physics behind irregularities of water and ice …

The structural dynamics of the solid–liquid interfaces (SLEIs) determines the chemistry in all
electrochemical processes. Here, by combining multiple operando synchrotron …

Formation of mineral scale on a material surface has profound impact on a wide range of
natural processes as well as industrial applications. However, how specific material surface …

Despite relevance to disparate areas such as cloud microphysics and tribology, major gaps
in the understanding of the structures and phase transitions of low-dimensional water ice …