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 interaction between minerals and water is manifold and complex: the mineral surface
can be (de) protonated by water, thereby changing its charge; mineral ions dissolved into …

Zwitterionic polymers exhibit excellent nonfouling performance due to their strong surface
hydrations. However, salt molecules may severely reduce the surface hydrations of typical …

The electric double layer governs the processes of all charged surfaces in aqueous
solutions; however, elucidating the structure of the water molecules is challenging for even …

The silica/water interface is one of the most abundant charged interfaces in natural
environments, and the elucidation of the water structure at the silica/water interface is …

At charged aqueous interfaces, the second-order nonlinear optical response originates from
water molecules within the diffuse part of the electrical double layer, which are ordered by …

The balance between hydration and Derjaguin–Landau–Verwey–Overbeek (DLVO) forces
at solid–liquid interfaces controls many processes, such as colloidal stability, wetting …

Isolating the hydrogen-bonding structure of water immediately at the surface is challenging,
even with surface-specific techniques like sum-frequency generation (SFG), because of the …

Hydrophobic-like water monolayers have been predicted at the metal and some polar
surfaces by theoretical simulations. However, direct experimental evidence for the presence …

Hydrophobicity/hydrophilicity of aqueous interfaces at the molecular level results from a
subtle balance in the water–water and water–surface interactions. This is characterized here …