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Saak CM, Backus EHG. The Role of Sum-Frequency Generation Spectroscopy in Understanding On-Surface Reactions and Dynamics in Atmospheric Model-Systems. J Phys Chem Lett 2024; 15:4546-4559. [PMID: 38636165 PMCID: PMC11071071 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c00392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2024] [Revised: 04/09/2024] [Accepted: 04/10/2024] [Indexed: 04/20/2024]
Abstract
Surfaces, both water/air and solid/water, play an important role in mediating a multitude of processes central to atmospheric chemistry, particularly in the aerosol phase. However, the study of both static and dynamic properties of surfaces is highly challenging from an experimental standpoint, leading to a lack of molecular level information about the processes that take place at these systems and how they differ from bulk. One of the few techniques that has been able to capture ultrafast surface phenomena is time-resolved sum-frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy. Since it is both surface-specific and chemically sensitive, the extension of this spectroscopic technique to the time domain makes it possible to study dynamic processes on the femtosecond time scale. In this Perspective, we will explore recent advances made in the field both in terms of studying energy dissipation as well as chemical reactions and the role the surface geometry plays in these processes.
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- Clara-Magdalena Saak
- University of Vienna, Faculty of Chemistry, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Währingerstrasse 42, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- University of Vienna, Faculty of Chemistry, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Währingerstrasse 42, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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Sung W, Inoue KI, Nihonyanagi S, Tahara T. Unified picture of vibrational relaxation of OH stretch at the air/water interface. Nat Commun 2024; 15:1258. [PMID: 38341439 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45388-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2023] [Accepted: 01/19/2024] [Indexed: 02/12/2024] Open
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The elucidation of the energy dissipation process is crucial for understanding various phenomena occurring in nature. Yet, the vibrational relaxation and its timescale at the water interface, where the hydrogen-bonding network is truncated, are not well understood and are still under debate. In the present study, we focus on the OH stretch of interfacial water at the air/water interface and investigate its vibrational relaxation by femtosecond time-resolved, heterodyne-detected vibrational sum-frequency generation (TR-HD-VSFG) spectroscopy. The temporal change of the vibrationally excited hydrogen-bonded (HB) OH stretch band (ν=1→2 transition) is measured, enabling us to determine reliable vibrational relaxation (T1) time. The T1 times obtained with direct excitations of HB OH stretch are 0.2-0.4 ps, which are similar to the T1 time in bulk water and do not noticeably change with the excitation frequency. It suggests that vibrational relaxation of the interfacial HB OH proceeds predominantly with the intramolecular relaxation mechanism as in the case of bulk water. The delayed rise and following decay of the excited-state HB OH band are observed with excitation of free OH stretch, indicating conversion from excited free OH to excited HB OH (~0.9 ps) followed by relaxation to low-frequency vibrations (~0.3 ps). This study provides a complete set of the T1 time of the interfacial OH stretch and presents a unified picture of its vibrational relaxation at the air/water interface.
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- Woongmo Sung
- Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan
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- Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan
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- Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan
- Ultrafast Spectroscopy Research Team, RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics (RAP), 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan
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- Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan.
- Ultrafast Spectroscopy Research Team, RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics (RAP), 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan.
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Tan J, Wang M, Zhang J, Ye S. Determination of the Thickness of Interfacial Water by Time-Resolved Sum-Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2023; 39:18573-18580. [PMID: 38051545 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c02906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/07/2023]
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The physics and chemistry of a charged interface are governed by the structure of the electrical double layer (EDL). Determination of the interfacial water thickness (diw) of the charged interface is crucial to quantitatively describe the EDL structure, but it can be utilized with very scarce experimental methods. Here, we propose and verify that the vibrational relaxation time (T1) of the OH stretching mode at 3200 cm-1, obtained by time-resolved sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy with ssp polarizations, provides an effective tool to determine diw. By investigating the T1 values at the SiO2/NaCl solution interface, we established a time-space (T1-diw) relationship. We find that water has a T1 lifetime of ≥0.5 ps for diw ≤ 3 Å, while it displays bulk-like dynamics with T1 ≤ 0.2 ps for diw ≥ 9 Å. T1 decreases as diw increases from ∼3 Å to 9 Å. The hydration water at the DPPG lipid bilayer and LK15β protein interfaces has a thickness of ≥9 Å and shows a bulk-like feature. The time-space relationship will provide a novel tool to pattern the interfacial topography and heterogeneity in Ångstrom-depth resolution by imaging the T1 values.
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- Junjun Tan
- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, 96 Jinzhai Road, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
- Hefei National Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230088, China
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, 96 Jinzhai Road, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, 96 Jinzhai Road, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, 96 Jinzhai Road, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
- Hefei National Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230088, China
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Harmon W, Robben K, Cheatum CM. Adding a second AgGaS 2 stage to Ti:sapphire/BBO/AgGaS 2 setups increases mid-infrared power twofold. OPTICS LETTERS 2023; 48:4797-4800. [PMID: 37707905 DOI: 10.1364/ol.496376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2023] [Accepted: 08/16/2023] [Indexed: 09/15/2023]
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We present a method for increasing the power of mid-infrared laser pulses generated by a conventional beta-barium borate (BBO) optical parametric amplifier (OPA) and AgGaS2 difference frequency generation (DFG) pumped by a Ti:sapphire amplifier. The method involves an additional stage of parametric amplification with a second AgGaS2 crystal pumped by selected outputs of the conventional DFG stage. This method does not require additional pump power from the Ti:sapphire laser source and improves the overall photon conversion efficiency for generating mid-infrared light. It merely requires an additional AgGaS2 crystal and dichroic mirrors. Following difference frequency generation, the method reuses near-infrared light (∼1.9 µm), typically discarded, to pump the additional AgGaS2 stage and amplifies the mid-infrared light twofold. We demonstrate and characterize the power, spectrum, duration, and noise of the mid-IR pulses before and after the second AgGaS2 stage. We observe small changes in center frequencies, bandwidth, and pulse duration for ∼150-fs pulses between 4 and 5 µm.
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Du H, Xue R, Xu X, Sun C, Zhang W, Fang WH, Men Z. Cationic complex-enhanced C-H stimulated Raman scattering in naphthalene-benzene solution. OPTICS LETTERS 2023; 48:4149-4152. [PMID: 37527140 DOI: 10.1364/ol.495739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2023] [Accepted: 07/09/2023] [Indexed: 08/03/2023]
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Ring skeleton vibrations of aromatic series are dominant in Raman spectroscopy compared with the C-H stretching vibrations. When a laser-induced plasma (LIP) was generated in a mixed solution of naphthalene and benzene, an anomalous enhancement was observed in stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) of aromatic C-H stretching vibrations of naphthalene (3055 cm-1). However, SRS of C-H stretching vibrations of benzene at 3060 cm-1 disappeared. The LIP produced electrons and cations, and the transient production of ionized material contributed to the enhancement of SRS of C-H vibrations of naphthalene. Density functional theory calculations showed that the C-H Raman activity of the naphthalene molecules in (naphthalene-benzene)+ heterodimer was significantly enhanced compared with neutral naphthalene. In addition, SRS pulse durations were better compressed in pure benzene and naphthalene due to the self-focusing effect.
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Zheng RH, Wei WM, Zhang SC. Sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy of centrosymmetric molecule at interfaces. J Chem Phys 2023; 158:074701. [PMID: 36813719 DOI: 10.1063/5.0139895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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The centrosymmetric benzene molecule has zero first-order electric dipole hyperpolarizability, which results in no sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy (SFVS) signal at interfaces, but it shows very strong SFVS experimentally. We perform a theoretical study on its SFVS, which is in good agreement with the experimental results. Its strong SFVS mainly comes from the interfacial electric quadrupole hyperpolarizability rather than the symmetry-breaking electric dipole, bulk electric quadrupole, and interfacial and bulk magnetic dipole hyperpolarizabilities, which provides a novel and completely unconventional point of view.
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- Ren-Hui Zheng
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongguancun, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Basic Medicine, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui 230032, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongguancun, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China
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Maluangnont T, Pulphol P, Pongampai S, Kobkeatthawin T, Smith SM, Vittayakorn N. TiO 2/graphitic carbon nitride nanosheet composite with enhanced sensitivity to atmospheric water. RSC Adv 2023; 13:6143-6152. [PMID: 36814882 PMCID: PMC9940629 DOI: 10.1039/d3ra00045a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2023] [Accepted: 02/10/2023] [Indexed: 02/22/2023] Open
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Understanding the fundamentals of transport properties in two-dimensional (2D) materials is essential for their applications in devices, sensors, and so on. Herein, we report the impedance spectroscopic study of carbon nitride nanosheets (CNNS) and the composite with anatase (TiO2/CNNS, 20 atom% Ti), including their interaction with atmospheric water. The samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction, N2 adsorption/desorption, solid state 1H nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis, and transmission electron microscopy. It is found that CNNS is highly insulating (resistivity ρ ∼ 1010 Ω cm) and its impedance barely changes during a 20 min-measurement at room temperature and 70% relative humidity. Meanwhile, incorporating the semiconducting TiO2 nanoparticles (∼10 nm) reduces ρ by one order of magnitude, and the decreased ρ is proportional to the exposure time to atmospheric water. Sorbed water shows up at low frequency (<102 Hz) with relaxation time in milliseconds, but the response intrinsic to CNNS and TiO2/CNNS is evident at higher frequency (>104 Hz) with relaxation time in microseconds. These two signals apparently correlate to the endothermic peak at ≤110 °C and >250 °C, respectively, in differential scanning calorimetry experiments. Universal power law analysis suggests charge hopping across the 3D conduction pathways, consistent with the capacitance in picofarad typical of grain response. Our work demonstrates that the use of various formalisms (i.e., impedance, permittivity, conductivity, and modulus) combined with a simple universal power law analysis provides insights into water-induced transport of the TiO2/CNNS composite without complicated curve fitting procedure or dedicated humidity control.
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- Tosapol Maluangnont
- Electroceramics Research Laboratory, College of Materials Innovation and Technology, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang Bangkok 10520 Thailand
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- Department of Materials Science, Faculty of Science, Srinakharinwirot UniversityBangkok 10110Thailand
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- Advanced Materials Research Unit and Department of Chemistry, School of Science, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology LadkrabangBangkok 10520Thailand
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- Center of Sustainable Energy and Green Materials and Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Mahidol UniversityNakhon Pathom 73170Thailand
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- Center of Sustainable Energy and Green Materials and Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Mahidol UniversityNakhon Pathom 73170Thailand
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- Advanced Materials Research Unit and Department of Chemistry, School of Science, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology LadkrabangBangkok 10520Thailand
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Toutounji M. Low-temperature vibronic spectroscopy of condensed chromophore exhibiting inhomogeneous distribution of vibrational frequencies in a mixed quantum-classical environment. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:1290-1298. [PMID: 36533446 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp00891b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
This work has been motivated by the recent paper by the author [M. Toutounji, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2021, 23, 21981] whereby a mixed quantum-classical Liouville equation was used to probe the spectroscopy and dynamics of a spin-boson system. A mixed quantum-classical Liouville equation treats the system of interest quantum mechanically, the bath classically, and the coupling term mixed quantum-classical mechanically. This paper offers a two-fold advantage: correcting the treatment of the electronic transition decay (width in frequency domain) and assessing the local heterogeneous vibrational structure. The homogeneous linear absorption spectrum of a chromophore embedded in a mixed quantum-classical environment at low temperature is composed of a sharp peak called a zero-phonon line (ZPL) and a broad phonon sideband (PSB), whereby the ZPL and the PSB are assimilated by a Lorentzian function and Voigt profiles, respectively. The PSB, in this case, is characterized by a local heterogeneous structure due to a dispersive medium of vibrations, modeled by vibrational Gaussian distributions to represent the arising inhomogeneous broadening and Lorentzians to model the homogeneous vibrations. This description seems to model proteins and amorphous solids exhibiting a local heterogeneous structure as both electronic and vibrational inhomogeneous broadening seems to be large in these media. This work provides a derivation of linear absorption lineshape and vibronic transition dipole moment time correlation functions, both of which account for pure electronic dephasing (ZPL width) the Voigt profile description of the phonon profiles (PSB) in dispersive media.
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- Mohamad Toutounji
- College of Science, Department of Chemistry, UAE University, P. O. Box 15551, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates.
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Das B, Chandra A. Vibrational Sum Frequency Generation Spectra of Water-Vapor Interfaces Covered by Alcohols: Effects of Surface Coverage and Coupling between Oscillators. Chemphyschem 2022; 24:e202200604. [PMID: 36537178 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202200604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2022] [Revised: 12/18/2022] [Accepted: 12/20/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
Abstract
The present study deals with the effects of varying coverage of water surface by alcohols on the vibrational sum frequency generation (VSFG) spectrum of interfacial water. We have considered two different alcohols: Tertiary butyl alcohol (TBA) whose alkyl part is fully branched and stearyl alcohol (STA) which has a long linear alkyl chain with larger hydrophobic surface area than that of TBA. With increase of the alcohol concentration, the hydrogen bonded OH stretch region of the VSFG spectrum is found to change following a regular trend for the STA-water system, whereas non-monotonic variation of the VSFG spectrum is observed for the TBA-water system which can be correlated with the presence of very different interactions of TBA molecules at different concentrations. On increasing the concentration of TBA, the hydrophobic groups get more tilted towards the water phase and significant hydrophobic interactions are introduced at higher concentrations. Whereas, for STA, there is a gradual increase in the hydrophilic interaction. Because of stacking interactions between the long chain alkyl groups, the hydrophobic parts stay outward from the water phase at higher concentrations and a regular change in the VSFG spectrum is observed. We have also presented a computationally efficient scheme to calculate the VSFG spectrum of interfacial systems for coupled oscillators which is expected to be beneficial for the treatment of coupling where the interfacial system size is inherently large.
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- Banshi Das
- Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780, Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India, 208016
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Hu Q, Zhao H, Ouyang S, Liang Y, Yang H, Zhu X. The water structure around chloride ion investigated from D2O ↔ H2O substitution effect. J Mol Liq 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2022.120702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Cuppen HM, Noble JA, Coussan S, Redlich B, Ioppolo S. Energy Transfer and Restructuring in Amorphous Solid Water upon Consecutive Irradiation. J Phys Chem A 2022; 126:8859-8870. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c06314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Herma M. Cuppen
- Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University, Nijmegen 6525 AJ, The Netherlands
- Van’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1098 XH, The Netherlands
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- PIIM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Marseille 13397, France
- School of Physical Sciences, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NH, U.K
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- FELIX Laboratory, Radboud University, Nijmegen 6525 ED, The Netherlands
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- Center for Interstellar Catalysis, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 120, Aarhus C 8000, Denmark
- School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, U.K
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Ehrhard AA, Gunkel L, Jäger S, Sell AC, Nagata Y, Hunger J. Elucidating Conformation and Hydrogen-Bonding Motifs of Reactive Thiourea Intermediates. ACS Catal 2022; 12:12689-12700. [PMID: 36313523 PMCID: PMC9594049 DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c03382] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2022] [Revised: 09/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Substituted diphenylthioureas (DPTUs) are efficient hydrogen-bonding
organo-catalysts, and substitution of DPTUs has been shown to greatly
affect catalytic activity. Yet, both the conformation of DPTUs in
solution and the conformation and hydrogen-bonded motifs within catalytically
active intermediates, pertinent to their mode of activation, have
remained elusive. By combining linear and ultrafast vibrational spectroscopy
with spectroscopic simulations and calculations, we show that different
conformational states of thioureas give rise to distinctively different
N–H stretching bands in the infrared spectra. In the absence
of hydrogen-bond-accepting substrates, we show that vibrational structure
and dynamics are highly sensitive to the substitution of DPTUs with
CF3 groups and to the interaction with the solvent environment,
allowing for disentangling the different conformational states. In
contrast to bare diphenylthiourea (0CF-DPTU), we find the catalytically
superior CF3-substituted DPTU (4CF-DPTU) to favor the trans–trans conformation in solution,
allowing for donating two hydrogen bonds to the reactive substrate.
In the presence of a prototypical substrate, DPTUs in trans–trans conformation hydrogen bond to the
substrate’s C=O group, as evidenced by a red-shift of
the N–H vibration. Yet, our time-resolved infrared experiments
indicate that only one N–H group forms a strong hydrogen bond
to the carbonyl moiety, while thiourea’s second N–H
group only weakly interacts with the substrate. Our data indicate
that hydrogen-bond exchange between these N–H groups occurs
on the timescale of a few picoseconds for 0CF-DPTU and is significantly
accelerated upon CF3 substitution. Our results highlight
the subtle interplay between conformational equilibria, bonding states,
and bonding lifetimes in reactive intermediates in thiourea catalysis,
which help rationalize their catalytic activity.
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- Amelie A. Ehrhard
- Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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You X, Baiz CR. Importance of Hydrogen Bonding in Crowded Environments: A Physical Chemistry Perspective. J Phys Chem A 2022; 126:5881-5889. [PMID: 35968816 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c03803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Cells are heterogeneous on every length and time scale; cytosol contains thousands of proteins, lipids, nucleic acids, and small molecules, and molecular interactions within this crowded environment determine the structure, dynamics, and stability of biomolecules. For decades, the effects of crowding at the atomistic scale have been overlooked in favor of more tractable models largely based on thermodynamics. Crowding can affect the conformations and stability of biomolecules by modulating water structure and dynamics within the cell, and these effects are nonlocal and environment dependent. Thus, characterizing water's hydrogen-bond (H-bond) networks is a critical step toward a complete microscopic crowding model. This perspective provides an overview of molecular crowding and describes recent time-resolved spectroscopy approaches investigating H-bond networks and dynamics in crowded or otherwise complex aqueous environments. Ultrafast spectroscopy combined with atomistic simulations has emerged as a powerful combination for studying H-bond structure and dynamics in heterogeneous multicomponent systems. We discuss the ongoing challenges toward developing a complete atomistic description of macromolecular crowding from an experimental as well as a theoretical perspective.
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- Xiao You
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 19104, United States
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Tan J, Ni Z, Ye S. Protein-Water Coupling Tunes the Anharmonicity of Amide I Modes in the Interfacial Membrane-Bound Proteins. J Chem Phys 2022; 156:105103. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0078632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Junjun Tan
- University of Science and Technology of China Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, China
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- University of Science and Technology of China Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale Nanoscience Laboratory, China
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- University of Science and Technology of China Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, China
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Brünig FN, Geburtig O, Canal AV, Kappler J, Netz RR. Time-Dependent Friction Effects on Vibrational Infrared Frequencies and Line Shapes of Liquid Water. J Phys Chem B 2022; 126:1579-1589. [PMID: 35167754 PMCID: PMC8883462 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c09481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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From ab initio simulations
of liquid water, the time-dependent
friction functions and time-averaged nonlinear effective bond potentials
for the OH stretch and HOH bend vibrations are extracted. The obtained
friction exhibits not only adiabatic contributions at and below the
vibrational time scales but also much slower nonadiabatic contributions,
reflecting homogeneous and inhomogeneous line broadening mechanisms,
respectively. Intermolecular interactions in liquid water soften both
stretch and bend potentials compared to the gas phase, which by itself
would lead to a red-shift of the corresponding vibrational bands.
In contrast, nonadiabatic friction contributions cause a spectral
blue shift. For the stretch mode, the potential effect dominates,
and thus, a significant red shift when going from gas to the liquid
phase results. For the bend mode, potential and nonadiabatic friction
effects are of comparable magnitude, so that a slight blue shift results,
in agreement with well-known but puzzling experimental findings. The
observed line broadening is shown to be roughly equally caused by
adiabatic and nonadiabatic friction contributions for both the stretch
and bend modes in liquid water. Thus, the quantitative analysis of
the time-dependent friction that acts on vibrational modes in liquids
advances the understanding of infrared vibrational frequencies and
line shapes.
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Ghajeri F, Leifer K, Larsson A, Engqvist H, Xia W. The Influence of Residuals Combining Temperature and Reaction Time on Calcium Phosphate Transformation in a Precipitation Process. J Funct Biomater 2022; 13:jfb13010009. [PMID: 35225973 PMCID: PMC8883985 DOI: 10.3390/jfb13010009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2021] [Revised: 01/11/2022] [Accepted: 01/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Precipitation is one of the most common processes to synthesize hydroxyapatite, which is the human body’s mineral forming bone and teeth, and the golden bioceramic material for bone repair. Generally, the washing step is important in the precipitation method to remove the residuals in solution and to stabilize the phase transformation. However, the influence of residuals in combination with the reaction temperature and time, on calcium phosphate formation, is not well studied. This could help us with a better understanding of the typical synthesis process. We used a fixed starting ion concentration and pH in our study and did not adjust it during the reaction. XRD, FTIR, ICP-OES, and SEM have been used to analyze the samples. The results showed that combining residuals with both reaction temperature and time can significantly influence calcium phosphate formation and transformation. Dicalcium phosphate dihydrate formation and transformation are sensitive to temperature. Increasing temperature (60 °C) can inhibit the formation of acidic calcium phosphate or transform it to other phases, and further the particle size. It was also observed that high reaction temperature (60 °C) results in higher precipitation efficiency than room temperature. A low ion concentration combining reaction temperature and time could still significantly influence the calcium phosphate transformation during the drying.
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- Farnaz Ghajeri
- Applied Material Science, Department of Engineering Science, Uppsala University, 75121 Uppsala, Sweden; (F.G.); (K.L.); (H.E.)
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- Applied Material Science, Department of Engineering Science, Uppsala University, 75121 Uppsala, Sweden; (F.G.); (K.L.); (H.E.)
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- RISE Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), 11428 Stockholm, Sweden;
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- Applied Material Science, Department of Engineering Science, Uppsala University, 75121 Uppsala, Sweden; (F.G.); (K.L.); (H.E.)
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- Applied Material Science, Department of Engineering Science, Uppsala University, 75121 Uppsala, Sweden; (F.G.); (K.L.); (H.E.)
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Zheng RH, Wei WM. Sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy of methanol at interfaces due to Fermi resonance. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:27204-27211. [DOI: 10.1039/d2cp01808j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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We present a theoretical method of studying sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy for the CH3 group of methanol at interfaces due to Fermi resonance, which provides a novel and untraditional point of view with respect to traditional approaches.
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- Ren-Hui Zheng
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongguancun, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China
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- School of Basic Medical Science, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, 230032, P. R. China
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Das B, Chandra A. Effects of Stearyl Alcohol Monolayer on the Structure, Dynamics and Vibrational Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy of Interfacial Water. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:7374-7386. [DOI: 10.1039/d1cp04944e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The structure, dynamics and vibrational spectroscopy of water surface covered by a monolayer of stearyl alcohol (STA) are investigated by means of molecular dynamics simulations and vibrational sum frequency generation...
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Li S, Wang Y, Liu X, Sun C, Fang W, Men Z. Short-pulse broadband stimulated Raman scattering in carbon disulfide via resonance cascading. APPLIED OPTICS 2021; 60:8787-8791. [PMID: 34613104 DOI: 10.1364/ao.435147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2021] [Accepted: 09/06/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Cascaded stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) of carbon disulfide (CS2) was investigated by a pulsed Nd:YAG laser with a wavelength of 532 nm. The fourth-order Stokes and second-order anti-Stokes lines were generated when the pump laser energy was about 1.909 mJ in one sample cell (C1) only. However, the same result was obtained in the second sample cell (C2) with a pump energy of 0.883 mJ. At the same time, the fifth-order Stokes line was produced in C2 when the pump energy increased to 1.208 mJ, and the coherent radiation wavelength ranged from 498 to 644 nm. The result was attributed to the resonance enhancement effect, where the frequency difference between the pump laser and the Stokes light emitted from the working medium (CS2) self-matched with the vibrational energy level of C=S, which resulted in the generation of the cascaded broadband SRS. The anti-Stokes SRS was attributed to four-wave mixing. Simultaneously, the pulse durations of the Stokes and anti-Stokes were compressed to about 380 ps by SRS and laser-induced breakdown. The resonance effect not only reduced the threshold, but it also generated broadband and short-pulse SRS.
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Zhang J, Tan J, Pei R, Ye S, Luo Y. Ordered Water Layer on the Macroscopically Hydrophobic Fluorinated Polymer Surface and Its Ultrafast Vibrational Dynamics. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:13074-13081. [PMID: 34384210 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c03581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Hydrophobic-like water monolayers have been predicted at the metal and some polar surfaces by theoretical simulations. However, direct experimental evidence for the presence of this water layer at surfaces, particularly at biomolecule and polymer surfaces, is yet to be validated at room temperature. Here we observe experimentally that an ordered molecular water layer is present at the hydrophobic fluorinated polymer such as polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) surface by using sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy. The macroscopic hydrophobicity of PTFE surface is actually hydrophilic at the molecular level. The macroscopically hydrophobic character of PTFE is indeed resulting from the hydrophobicity of the ordered two-dimension (2D) water layer, in which cyclic water tetramer structure is found. The water layer at humidity of ≤40% has a vibrational relaxation time of 550 ± 60 fs. The vibrational relaxation time in the frequency range of 3200-3400 cm-1 shows remarkable difference from the interfacial water at the air/H2O interface and the lipid/H2O interface. No discernible frequency dependence of the vibrational relaxation time is observed, indicating the homogeneous dynamics of OH groups in the water layer. These insights into the water layer at the macroscopically hydrophobic surface may contribute to a better understanding of the hydrophobic interaction and interfacial water dynamics.
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- Jiahui Zhang
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Department of Chemical Physics, and Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information & Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Department of Chemical Physics, and Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information & Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Department of Chemical Physics, and Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information & Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Department of Chemical Physics, and Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information & Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Department of Chemical Physics, and Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information & Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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Seki T, Yu CC, Chiang KY, Tan J, Sun S, Ye S, Bonn M, Nagata Y. Disentangling Sum-Frequency Generation Spectra of the Water Bending Mode at Charged Aqueous Interfaces. J Phys Chem B 2021; 125:7060-7067. [PMID: 34159786 PMCID: PMC8279539 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c03258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2021] [Revised: 06/05/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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The origin of the sum-frequency generation (SFG) signal of the water bending mode has been controversially debated in the past decade. Unveiling the origin of the signal is essential, because different assignments lead to different views on the molecular structure of interfacial water. Here, we combine collinear heterodyne-detected SFG spectroscopy at the water-charged lipid interfaces with systematic variation of the salt concentration. The results show that the bending mode response is of a dipolar, rather than a quadrupolar, nature and allows us to disentangle the response of water in the Stern and the diffuse layers. While the diffuse layer response is identical for the oppositely charged surfaces, the Stern layer responses reflect interfacial hydrogen bonding. Our findings thus corroborate that the water bending mode signal is a suitable probe for the structure of interfacial water.
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- Takakazu Seki
- Max
Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Max
Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Max
Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Hefei
National Laboratory for Physical
Sciences at the Microscale, and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, 230026 Hefei, China
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- Department
of Physics and Applied Optics Beijing Area Major Laboratory, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Hefei
National Laboratory for Physical
Sciences at the Microscale, and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, 230026 Hefei, China
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- Max
Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Max
Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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Wang Y, Li F, Dou Z, Sun C, Fang W, Men Z. Resonance enhancement stimulated Raman scattering of O–H stretching vibration in water molecule. J Mol Liq 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2020.114722] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Chen M, Li L, Zhu R, Zhu J, He H. Intrinsic water layering next to soft, solid, hydrophobic, and hydrophilic substrates. J Chem Phys 2020; 153:224702. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0030021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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- Meng Chen
- CAS Key Laboratory of Mineralogy and Metallogeny/Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Mineral Physics and Materials, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Institutions of Earth Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Guangzhou 510640, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Mineralogy and Metallogeny/Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Mineral Physics and Materials, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Institutions of Earth Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Guangzhou 510640, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Mineralogy and Metallogeny/Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Mineral Physics and Materials, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Institutions of Earth Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Guangzhou 510640, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Mineralogy and Metallogeny/Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Mineral Physics and Materials, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Institutions of Earth Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Guangzhou 510640, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Mineralogy and Metallogeny/Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Mineral Physics and Materials, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Institutions of Earth Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Guangzhou 510640, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Vibrational couplings and energy transfer pathways of water's bending mode. Nat Commun 2020; 11:5977. [PMID: 33239630 PMCID: PMC7688972 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19759-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2020] [Accepted: 10/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Coupling between vibrational modes is essential for energy transfer and dissipation in condensed matter. For water, different O-H stretch modes are known to be very strongly coupled both within and between water molecules, leading to ultrafast dissipation and delocalization of vibrational energy. In contrast, the information on the vibrational coupling of the H-O-H bending mode of water is lacking, even though the bending mode is an essential intermediate for the energy relaxation pathway from the stretch mode to the heat bath. By combining static and femtosecond infrared, Raman, and hyper-Raman spectroscopies for isotopically diluted water with ab initio molecular dynamics simulations, we find the vibrational coupling of the bending mode differs significantly from the stretch mode: the intramode intermolecular coupling of the bending mode is very weak, in stark contrast to the stretch mode. Our results elucidate the vibrational energy transfer pathways of water. Specifically, the librational motion is essential for the vibrational energy relaxation and orientational dynamics of H-O-H bending mode. Vibrational energy transfer in water involves intermolecular coupling of O-H stretching modes, but much less is known about the role of the bending modes. Here the authors, combining static and femtosecond infrared, Raman, and hyper-Raman spectroscopy and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations, provide insight into the energy dynamics of the bend vibrations.
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Inoue KI, Ahmed M, Nihonyanagi S, Tahara T. Reorientation-induced relaxation of free OH at the air/water interface revealed by ultrafast heterodyne-detected nonlinear spectroscopy. Nat Commun 2020; 11:5344. [PMID: 33093482 PMCID: PMC7581742 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19143-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2020] [Accepted: 09/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The uniqueness of water originates from its three-dimensional hydrogen-bond network, but this hydrogen-bond network is suddenly truncated at the interface and non-hydrogen-bonded OH (free OH) appears. Although this free OH is the most characteristic feature of interfacial water, the molecular-level understanding of its dynamic property is still limited due to the technical difficulty. We study ultrafast vibrational relaxation dynamics of the free OH at the air/water interface using time-resolved heterodyne-detected vibrational sum frequency generation (TR-HD-VSFG) spectroscopy. With the use of singular value decomposition (SVD) analysis, the vibrational relaxation (T1) times of the free OH at the neat H2O and isotopically-diluted water interfaces are determined to be 0.87 ± 0.06 ps (neat H2O), 0.84 ± 0.09 ps (H2O/HOD/D2O = 1/2/1), and 0.88 ± 0.16 ps (H2O/HOD/D2O = 1/8/16). The absence of the isotope effect on the T1 time indicates that the main mechanism of the vibrational relaxation of the free OH is reorientation of the topmost water molecules. The determined sub-picosecond T1 time also suggests that the free OH reorients diffusively without the switching of the hydrogen-bond partner by the topmost water molecule. Water’s hydrogen-bond network is truncated at hydrophobic interfaces and the dynamics of the resulting free OH groups is not well understood. The authors experimentally show that the main vibrational relaxation mechanism for free OH at the air-water interface is a diffusive molecular reorientation, rather than intramolecular energy transfer.
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- Ken-Ichi Inoue
- Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan.,Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan
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- Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan.,Ultrafast Spectroscopy Research Team, RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics (RAP), 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan
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- Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan.,Ultrafast Spectroscopy Research Team, RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics (RAP), 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan
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- Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan. .,Ultrafast Spectroscopy Research Team, RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics (RAP), 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan.
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Seki T, Chiang KY, Yu CC, Yu X, Okuno M, Hunger J, Nagata Y, Bonn M. The Bending Mode of Water: A Powerful Probe for Hydrogen Bond Structure of Aqueous Systems. J Phys Chem Lett 2020; 11:8459-8469. [PMID: 32931284 PMCID: PMC7584361 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2020] [Accepted: 09/15/2020] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Insights into the microscopic structure and dynamics of the water's hydrogen-bonded network are crucial to understand the role of water in biology, atmospheric and geochemical processes, and chemical reactions in aqueous systems. Vibrational spectroscopy of water has provided many such insights, in particular using the O-H stretch mode. In this Perspective, we summarize our recent studies that have revealed that the H-O-H bending mode can be an equally powerful reporter for the microscopic structure of water and provides more direct access to the hydrogen-bonded network than the conventionally studied O-H stretch mode. We discuss the fundamental vibrational properties of the water bending mode, such as the intermolecular vibrational coupling, and its effects on the spectral lineshapes and vibrational dynamics. Several examples of static and ultrafast bending mode spectroscopy illustrate how the water bending mode provides an excellent window on the microscopic structure of both bulk and interfacial water.
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- Takakazu Seki
- Max
Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Max
Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Max
Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Max
Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Department
of Basic Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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- Max
Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Max
Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Max
Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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Spatially dependent H-bond dynamics at interfaces of water/biomimetic self-assembled lattice materials. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:23385-23392. [PMID: 32907936 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2001861117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Understanding hydrogen-bond interactions in self-assembled lattice materials is crucial for preparing such materials, but the role of hydrogen bonds (H bonds) remains unclear. To gain insight into H-bond interactions at the materials' intrinsic spatial scale, we investigated ultrafast H-bond dynamics between water and biomimetic self-assembled lattice materials (composed of sodium dodecyl sulfate and β-cyclodextrin) in a spatially resolved manner. To accomplish this, we developed an infrared pump, vibrational sum-frequency generation (VSFG) probe hyperspectral microscope. With this hyperspectral imaging method, we were able to observe that the primary and secondary OH groups of β-cyclodextrin exhibit markedly different dynamics, suggesting distinct H-bond environments, despite being separated by only a few angstroms. We also observed another ultrafast dynamic reflecting a weakening and restoring of H bonds between bound water and the secondary OH of β-cyclodextrin, which exhibited spatial uniformity within self-assembled domains, but heterogeneity between domains. The restoration dynamics further suggest heterogeneous hydration among the self-assembly domains. The ultrafast nature and meso- and microscopic ordering of H-bond dynamics could contribute to the flexibility and crystallinity of the material--two critically important factors for crystalline lattice self-assemblies--shedding light on engineering intermolecular interactions for self-assembled lattice materials.
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Gaweł BA, Ulvensøen A, Łukaszuk K, Arstad B, Muggerud AMF, Erbe A. Structural evolution of water and hydroxyl groups during thermal, mechanical and chemical treatment of high purity natural quartz. RSC Adv 2020; 10:29018-29030. [PMID: 35520046 PMCID: PMC9055915 DOI: 10.1039/d0ra05798c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2020] [Accepted: 07/28/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Fused silica crucibles are commonly used in the fabrication process of solar grade silicon ingots. These crucibles are manufactured from high purity natural quartz sand and as a consequence, their properties are influenced by the presence of water and hydroxyls in the raw quartz. In this work, diffuse reflectance IR, 1H magic angle spinning NMR, and Raman spectroscopy were used to investigate the influence of thermal treatment on water and hydroxyl groups in high purity natural quartz sand. Most of the water in dry sand is present in the form of closed inclusions within the quartz grains which were detected in Raman imaging studies, even after thermally treating the samples at 600 °C. Only after heating to 900 °C did this water completely vanish, most likely as a result of rupturing of the inclusions. However, newly formed OH groups, identified as isolated and hydrogen bound OH were observed as products of the reaction between water and quartz. Similarly, liquid water was observed in NMR spectra even after treatment at 600 °C while at temperatures >900 °C, only non-interacting silanol groups were present. The comparison of the temperature dependence of the IR and NMR spectra also yields insight into the assignment of the OH stretching mode region of the IR spectrum in this system. The intensity of water related bands decreases while the intensity of OH bands first increases and then decreases with increasing temperature. The band intensity of Al-rich defects as well as the characteristic feature at 3200 cm−1 does not follow the temperature dependence of typical water peaks. It is also shown that leaching the quartz sand in HF solution helps to remove water from inclusions, likely by forming pathways for fluid flow inside the quartz grains. Milling of the samples caused formation of an additional type of hydroxyl group, possibly due to partial amorphisation of the surfaces of the quartz grains surface during the process. The results improve the basis for a knowledge-based processes development for the processing of high purity natural quartz. In dry quartz stable closed liquid micron-size inclusions and newly formed OH groups were observed after thermal treatment.![]()
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- Bartłomiej A Gaweł
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology 7491 Trondheim Norway +47 73 594048
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology 7491 Trondheim Norway +47 73 594048
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology 7491 Trondheim Norway +47 73 594048
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Sun CQ. Water electrification: Principles and applications. Adv Colloid Interface Sci 2020; 282:102188. [PMID: 32610204 DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2020.102188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2020] [Revised: 05/30/2020] [Accepted: 06/02/2020] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Deep engineering of liquid water by charge and impurity injection, charged support, current flow, hydrophobic confinement, or applying a directional field has becoming increasingly important to the mankind toward overcoming energy and environment crisis. One can mediate the processes or temperatures of molecular evaporation for clean water harvesting, HO bond dissociation for H2 fuel generation, solidification for living-organism cryopreservation, structure stiffening for bioengineering, etc., with mechanisms being still puzzling. We show that the framework of "hydrogen bonding and electronic dynamics" has substantiated the progress in the fundamental issues and the aimed engineering. The segmental disparity of the coupled hydrogen bond (O:HO or HB with ":" being lone pair of oxygen) resolves their specific-heat curves and turns out a quasisolid phase (QS, bound at -15 and 4 °C). Electrification shows dual functionality that not only aligns, orders, polarizes water molecules but also stretches the O:HO bond. The O:HO segmental cooperative relaxation and polarization shift the QS boundary through Einstein's relation, ΔΘDx ∝ Δωx, resulting in a gel-like, viscoelastic, and stable supersolid phase with raised melting point Tm and lowered temperatures for vaporization TV and ice nucleation TN. The supersolidity and electro structure ordering provide additional forces to reinforce Armstrong's water bridge. QS dispersion and the secondary effect of electrification such as compression define the TN for Dufour's electro-freezing. The TV depression, surface stress disruption, and electrostatic attraction raise Asakawa's molecular evaporability. Composition of opposite, compatible fields eases the HO dissociation and soil wetting. Progress evidences not only the essentiality of the coupled O:HO bond theory but also the feasibility of engineering water and solutions by programmed electrification.
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- Chang Q Sun
- School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, 639798, Singapore; School of Material Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China.
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Lesnicki D, Zhang Z, Bonn M, Sulpizi M, Backus EHG. Oberflächenladungen an der CaF
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‐Wasser‐Grenzfläche erlauben eine sehr schnelle intermolekulare Übertragung von Schwingungsenergie. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202004686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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- Dominika Lesnicki
- Institut für Physik Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz Staudingerweg 7 55099 Mainz Deutschland
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- Abteilung für molekulare Spektroskopie Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung Ackermannweg 10 55128 Mainz Deutschland
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- Abteilung für molekulare Spektroskopie Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung Ackermannweg 10 55128 Mainz Deutschland
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- Institut für Physik Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz Staudingerweg 7 55099 Mainz Deutschland
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- Abteilung für molekulare Spektroskopie Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung Ackermannweg 10 55128 Mainz Deutschland
- Fachbereich für Physikalische Chemie Universität Wien Währinger Strasse 42 1090 Vienna Österreich
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Lesnicki D, Zhang Z, Bonn M, Sulpizi M, Backus EHG. Surface Charges at the CaF 2 /Water Interface Allow Very Fast Intermolecular Vibrational-Energy Transfer. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020; 59:13116-13121. [PMID: 32239715 PMCID: PMC7496624 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202004686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2020] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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We investigate the dynamics of water in contact with solid calcium fluoride, where at low pH, localized charges can develop upon fluorite dissolution. We use 2D surface‐specific vibrational spectroscopy to quantify the heterogeneity of the interfacial water (D2O) molecules and provide information about the sub‐picosecond vibrational‐energy‐relaxation dynamics at the buried solid/liquid interface. We find that strongly H‐bonded OD groups, with a vibrational frequency below 2500 cm−1, display very rapid spectral diffusion and vibrational relaxation; for weakly H‐bonded OD groups, above 2500 cm−1, the dynamics slows down substantially. Atomistic simulations based on electronic‐structure theory reveal the molecular origin of energy transport through the local H‐bond network. We conclude that strongly oriented H‐bonded water molecules in the adsorbed layer, whose orientation is pinned by the localized charge defects, can exchange vibrational energy very rapidly due to the strong collective dipole, compensating for a partially missing solvation shell.
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- Dominika Lesnicki
- Institute of Physics, JohannesGutenberg University MainzStaudingerweg 755099MainzGermany
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- Department for Molecular SpectroscopyMax Planck Institute for Polymer ResearchAckermannweg 1055128MainzGermany
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- Department for Molecular SpectroscopyMax Planck Institute for Polymer ResearchAckermannweg 1055128MainzGermany
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- Institute of Physics, JohannesGutenberg University MainzStaudingerweg 755099MainzGermany
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- Department for Molecular SpectroscopyMax Planck Institute for Polymer ResearchAckermannweg 1055128MainzGermany
- Department of Physical ChemistryUniversity of ViennaWähringer Strasse 421090ViennaAustria
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Deiseroth M, Bonn M, Backus EHG. Orientation independent vibrational dynamics of lipid-bound interfacial water. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:10142-10148. [PMID: 32347258 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp01099e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Zwitterionic phospholipids are one of the main constituents of biological membranes. The electric field associated with the two opposite headgroup charges aligns water molecules in the headgroup region. Here, we study the role of water alignment on the sub-picosecond vibrational dynamics of lipid-bound water. To this end, we compare the dynamics of oppositely oriented water associated with, respectively, a phosphocholine (PC) headgroup and an inverse-phosphocholine with non-ethylated phosphate groups (CP). We find that the dynamics are independent of the water orientation, implying that the vibrational dynamics report on the local properties of the water molecules.
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- Malte Deiseroth
- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany.
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany.
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany. and Department of Physical Chemisty, University of Vienna, Währinger Straße 42, 1090 Wien, Austria
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Tang F, Ohto T, Sun S, Rouxel JR, Imoto S, Backus EHG, Mukamel S, Bonn M, Nagata Y. Molecular Structure and Modeling of Water-Air and Ice-Air Interfaces Monitored by Sum-Frequency Generation. Chem Rev 2020; 120:3633-3667. [PMID: 32141737 PMCID: PMC7181271 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2019] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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From a glass of water to glaciers in Antarctica, water-air and ice-air interfaces are abundant on Earth. Molecular-level structure and dynamics at these interfaces are key for understanding many chemical/physical/atmospheric processes including the slipperiness of ice surfaces, the surface tension of water, and evaporation/sublimation of water. Sum-frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy is a powerful tool to probe the molecular-level structure of these interfaces because SFG can specifically probe the topmost interfacial water molecules separately from the bulk and is sensitive to molecular conformation. Nevertheless, experimental SFG has several limitations. For example, SFG cannot provide information on the depth of the interface and how the orientation of the molecules varies with distance from the surface. By combining the SFG spectroscopy with simulation techniques, one can directly compare the experimental data with the simulated SFG spectra, allowing us to unveil the molecular-level structure of water-air and ice-air interfaces. Here, we present an overview of the different simulation protocols available for SFG spectra calculations. We systematically compare the SFG spectra computed with different approaches, revealing the advantages and disadvantages of the different methods. Furthermore, we account for the findings through combined SFG experiments and simulations and provide future challenges for SFG experiments and simulations at different aqueous interfaces.
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- Fujie Tang
- Max
Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, Mainz 55128, Germany
- Department
of Physics, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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- Graduate
School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, 1-3 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Max
Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, Mainz 55128, Germany
- Department
of Physical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Strasse 42, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Department
of Chemistry and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-2025, United States
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- Max
Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, Mainz 55128, Germany
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- Max
Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, Mainz 55128, Germany
- Department
of Physical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Strasse 42, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Department
of Chemistry and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-2025, United States
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- Max
Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, Mainz 55128, Germany
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- Max
Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, Mainz 55128, Germany
- Department
of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Key Laboratory
of Micro- and Nano-Photonic Structures (MOE), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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Tuladhar A, Dewan S, Pezzotti S, Brigiano FS, Creazzo F, Gaigeot MP, Borguet E. Ions Tune Interfacial Water Structure and Modulate Hydrophobic Interactions at Silica Surfaces. J Am Chem Soc 2020; 142:6991-7000. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b13273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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- Aashish Tuladhar
- Department of Chemistry, Temple University, 1901 North 13th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
- Physical Sciences Division, Physical & Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Temple University, 1901 North 13th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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- LAMBE UMR8587, Université d’Evry val d’Essonne, CNRS, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91025 Evry, France
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- LAMBE UMR8587, Université d’Evry val d’Essonne, CNRS, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91025 Evry, France
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- LAMBE UMR8587, Université d’Evry val d’Essonne, CNRS, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91025 Evry, France
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- LAMBE UMR8587, Université d’Evry val d’Essonne, CNRS, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91025 Evry, France
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- Department of Chemistry, Temple University, 1901 North 13th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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Wang L, Yao P, Wang F, Li S, Chen Y, Xia T, Guo E, Wang K, Zou B, Guo H. Pressure-Induced Structural Evolution and Bandgap Optimization of Lead-Free Halide Double Perovskite (NH 4) 2SeBr 6. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2020; 7:1902900. [PMID: 32195097 PMCID: PMC7080510 DOI: 10.1002/advs.201902900] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2019] [Revised: 12/06/2019] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Lead-free halide double perovskites (HDPs) are promising candidates for high-performance solar cells because of their environmentally-friendly property and chemical stability in air. The power conversion efficiency of HDPs-based solar cells needs to be further improved before their commercialization in the market. It requires a thoughtful understanding of the correlation between their specific structure and property. Here, the structural and optical properties of an important HDP-based (NH4)2SeBr6 are investigated under high pressure. A dramatic piezochromism is found with the increase in pressure. Optical absorption spectra reveal the pressure-induced red-shift in bandgap with two distinct anomalies at 6.57 and 11.18 GPa, and the energy tunability reaches 360 meV within 20.02 GPa. Combined with structural characterizations, Raman and infrared spectra, and theoretical calculations using density functional theory, results reveal that, the first anomaly is caused by the formation of a Br-Br bond among the [SeBr6]2- octahedra, and the latter is attributed to a cubic-to-tetragonal phase transition. These results provide a clear correlation between the chemical bonding and optical properties of (NH4)2SeBr6. It is believed that the proposed strategy paves the way to optimize the optoelectronic properties of HDPs and further stimulate the development of next-generation clear energy based on HDPs solar cells.
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- Lingrui Wang
- Key Laboratory of Materials Physics of Ministry of EducationSchool of PhysicsZhengzhou UniversityZhengzhou450001China
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- Key Laboratory of Materials Physics of Ministry of EducationSchool of PhysicsZhengzhou UniversityZhengzhou450001China
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- International Laboratory for Quantum Functional Materials of HenanSchool of PhysicsZhengzhou UniversityZhengzhou450001China
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- International Laboratory for Quantum Functional Materials of HenanSchool of PhysicsZhengzhou UniversityZhengzhou450001China
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- State Key Laboratory of Superhard MaterialsJilin UniversityChangchun130012China
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- Key Laboratory of Materials Physics of Ministry of EducationSchool of PhysicsZhengzhou UniversityZhengzhou450001China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of PhysicsChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100190China
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- State Key Laboratory of Superhard MaterialsJilin UniversityChangchun130012China
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- State Key Laboratory of Superhard MaterialsJilin UniversityChangchun130012China
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- Key Laboratory of Materials Physics of Ministry of EducationSchool of PhysicsZhengzhou UniversityZhengzhou450001China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Light Manipulations and ApplicationsShandong Normal UniversityJinan250358China
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Karmakar S, Keshavamurthy S. Intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution and the quantum ergodicity transition: a phase space perspective. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:11139-11173. [DOI: 10.1039/d0cp01413c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The onset of facile intramolecular vibrational energy flow can be related to features in the connected network of anharmonic resonances in the classical phase space.
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- Sourav Karmakar
- Department of Chemistry
- Indian Institute of Technology
- Kanpur
- India
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Capturing intrinsic site-dependent spectral signatures and lifetimes of isolated OH oscillators in extended water networks. Nat Chem 2019; 12:159-164. [PMID: 31767995 DOI: 10.1038/s41557-019-0376-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2019] [Accepted: 10/11/2019] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The extremely broad infrared spectrum of water in the OH stretching region is a manifestation of how profoundly a water molecule is distorted when embedded in its extended hydrogen-bonding network. Many effects contribute to this breadth in solution at room temperature, which raises the question as to what the spectrum of a single OH oscillator would be in the absence of thermal fluctuations and coupling to nearby OH groups. We report the intrinsic spectral responses of isolated OH oscillators embedded in two cold (~20 K), hydrogen-bonded water cages adopted by the Cs+·(HDO)(D2O)19 and D3O+·(HDO)(D2O)19 clusters. Most OH oscillators yield single, isolated features that occur with linewidths that increase approximately linearly with their redshifts. Oscillators near 3,400 cm-1, however, occur with a second feature, which indicates that OH stretch excitation of these molecules drives low-frequency, phonon-type motions of the cage. The excited state lifetimes inferred from the broadening are considered in the context of fluctuations in the local electric fields that are available even at low temperature.
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Ojha D, Kaliannan NK, Kühne TD. Time-dependent vibrational sum-frequency generation spectroscopy of the air-water interface. Commun Chem 2019. [DOI: 10.1038/s42004-019-0220-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Vibrational sum-frequency generation spectroscopy is a powerful method to study the microscopic structure and dynamics of interfacial systems. Here we demonstrate a simple computational approach to calculate the time-dependent, frequency-resolved vibrational sum-frequency generation spectrum (TD-vSFG) of the air-water interface. Using this approach, we show that at the air-water interface, the transition of water molecules with bonded OH modes to free OH modes occurs at a time scale of $$\sim$$
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Amadei A, Aschi M. Modelling vibrational relaxation in complex molecular systems. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:20003-20017. [PMID: 31478042 DOI: 10.1039/c9cp03379c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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In this paper we show how it is possible to treat the quantum vibrational relaxation of a chromophore, embedded in a complex atomic-molecular environment, via the explicit solution of the time-dependent Schroedinger equation once using a proper separation between quantum and semiclassical degrees of freedom. The rigorous theoretical framework derived, based on first principles and making use of well defined approximations/assumptions, is utilized to construct a general model for the kinetics of the vibrational relaxation as obtained by the direct evaluation of the density matrix for all the relevant quantum state transitions. Application to (deuterated) N-methylacetamide (the typical benchmark used as a model for the amino acids) shows that the obtained theoretical-computational approach captures the essential features of the experimental process, unveiling the basic relaxation mechanism involving several vibrational state transitions.
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- Andrea Amadei
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Roma, Italy.
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Deiseroth M, Bonn M, Backus EHG. Electrolytes Change the Interfacial Water Structure but Not the Vibrational Dynamics. J Phys Chem B 2019; 123:8610-8616. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b08131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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- Malte Deiseroth
- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
- Department of Physical Chemisty, University of Vienna, Währinger Straße 42, 1090 Wien, Austria
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Wang Y, Li F, Li Z, Sun C, Wang S, Men Z. Raman spectra study hydrogen bonds network in ice Ih with cooling. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2019; 220:117131. [PMID: 31158605 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2019.05.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2019] [Revised: 05/04/2019] [Accepted: 05/12/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The Raman spectra of ice Ih (H2O and HDO) in the temperatures range from 253 to 83 K are measured. The results show that Raman peaks shift to low- or high-wavenumber due to the influence of temperature on hydrogen bonds dynamics. Importantly, Raman shifts are linear relationship with temperatures and its slope fully reflects the change of hydrogen bonds length. Finally, Raman intensity of ice Ih dependent on temperatures are also discussed.
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- Ying Wang
- Coherent Light and Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, College of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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- Coherent Light and Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, College of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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- Coherent Light and Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, College of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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- Key Laboratory of Physics and Technology for Advanced Batteries, College of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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- Coherent Light and Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, College of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China; Key Laboratory of Physics and Technology for Advanced Batteries, College of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China.
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- Coherent Light and Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, College of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China.
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Pastorczak M, Nejbauer M, Radzewicz C. Femtosecond infrared pump-stimulated Raman probe spectroscopy: the first application of the method to studies of vibrational relaxation pathways in the liquid HDO/D 2O system. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:16895-16904. [PMID: 31215570 DOI: 10.1039/c9cp00855a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We have proposed and constructed a setup for a novel method of ultrafast vibrational spectroscopy: femtosecond infrared pump-stimulated Raman probe spectroscopy. This is the first time-resolved spectroscopy providing simultaneously a sub-100 fs time resolution, a spectral resolution better than 10 cm-1 and a spectral window covering an extremely broad range of molecular vibrations (at least: 200-4000 cm-1) with a "single laser shot". The new method was applied to study vibrational relaxation pathways in the liquid HDO/D2O system. We determined the lifetimes of OH stretching vibrations to be in the range 310-500 fs depending on the isotopic dilution, which is in good agreement with the results from pump-probe femtosecond infrared spectroscopy. Moreover, we observed a strong coupling of OH stretch to OD stretch vibrations and possibly also to the librational modes of water.
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- Marcin Pastorczak
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 5, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland and Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kasprzaka 44/52, 01-224 Warsaw, Poland.
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- Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 5, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland and Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kasprzaka 44/52, 01-224 Warsaw, Poland.
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- Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 5, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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Sofronov OO, Bakker HJ. Vibrational Relaxation Dynamics of the Core and Outer Part of Proton-Hydration Clusters. J Phys Chem B 2019; 123:6222-6228. [PMID: 31265298 PMCID: PMC6661761 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b02067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We study the ultrafast
relaxation dynamics of hydrated proton clusters
in acetonitrile using femtosecond mid-infrared pump-probe spectroscopy.
We observe a strong dependence of transient absorption dynamics on
the frequency of excitation. When we excite the OH vibrations with
frequencies ≤3100 cm–1, we observe an ultrafast
energy relaxation that leads to the heating of the local environment
of the proton. This response is assigned to the OH vibrations of the
water molecules in the core of the hydrated proton cluster. When we
excite with frequencies ≥3200 cm–1, we observe
a relatively slow vibrational relaxation with a T1 time constant ranging from 0.22 ± 0.04 ps at νex = 3200 cm–1 to 0.37 ± 0.02 ps at
νex = 3520 cm–1. We assign this
response to water molecules in the outer part of the hydrated proton
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- AMOLF , Science Park 104 , 1098 XG Amsterdam , The Netherlands
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Sun CQ, Huang Y, Zhang X. Hydration of Hofmeister ions. Adv Colloid Interface Sci 2019; 268:1-24. [PMID: 30921543 DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2019.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2019] [Revised: 03/04/2019] [Accepted: 03/07/2019] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Water dissolves salt into ions and then hydrates the ions to form an aqueous solution. Hydration of ions deforms the hydrogen bonding network and triggers the solution with what the pure water never shows such as conductivity, molecular diffusivity, thermal stability, surface stress, solubility, and viscosity, having enormous impact to many branches in biochemistry, chemistry, physics, and energy and environmental industry sectors. However, regulations for the solute-solute-solvent interactions are still open for exploration. From the perspective of the screened ionic polarization and O:H-O bond relaxation, this treatise features the recent progress and a perspective in understanding the hydration dynamics of Hofmeister ions in the typical YI, NaX, ZX2, and NaT salt solutions (Y = Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs; X = F, Cl, Br, I; Z = Mg, Ca, Ba, Sr; T = ClO4, NO3, HSO4, SCN). Phonon spectrometric analysis turned out the f(C) number fraction of bonds transition from the mode of deionized water to the hydrating. The linear f(C) ∝ C form features the invariant hydration volume of small cations that are fully-screened by their hydration H2O dipoles. The nonlinear f(C) ∝ 1 - exp.(-C/C0) form describes that the number insufficiency of the ordered hydrating H2O dipoles partially screens the anions. Molecular anions show stronger yet shorter electric field of dipoles. The screened ionic polarization, inter-solute interaction, and O:H-O bond transition unify the solution conductivity, surface stress, viscosity, and critical energies for phase transition.
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Li F, Wang Y, Sun C, Li Z, Men Z. Spectra study hydrogen bonds dynamics of water molecules at NaOH solutions. J Mol Liq 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2018.12.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Balasubramanian M, Reynolds A, Blair TJ, Khalil M. Probing ultrafast vibrational dynamics of intramolecular hydrogen bonds with broadband infrared pump-probe spectroscopy. Chem Phys 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2018.11.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Interfaces between water and silicates are ubiquitous and relevant for, among others, geochemistry, atmospheric chemistry, and chromatography. The molecular-level details of water organization at silica surfaces are important for a fundamental understanding of this interface. While silica is hydrophilic, weakly hydrogen-bonded OH groups have been identified at the surface of silica, characterized by a high O-H stretch vibrational frequency. Here, through a combination of experimental and theoretical surface-selective vibrational spectroscopy, we demonstrate that these OH groups originate from very weakly hydrogen-bonded water molecules at the nominally hydrophilic silica interface. The properties of these OH groups are very similar to those typically observed at hydrophobic surfaces. Molecular dynamics simulations illustrate that these weakly hydrogen-bonded water OH groups are pointing with their hydrogen atom toward local hydrophobic sites consisting of oxygen bridges of the silica. An increased density of these molecular hydrophobic sites, evident from an increase in weakly hydrogen-bonded water OH groups, correlates with an increased macroscopic contact angle.
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Tomar D, Chaudhary S, Jena KC. Self-assembly of l-phenylalanine amino acid: electrostatic induced hindrance of fibril formation. RSC Adv 2019; 9:12596-12605. [PMID: 35515878 PMCID: PMC9063664 DOI: 10.1039/c9ra00268e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2019] [Accepted: 04/11/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Nanostructure morphology originating from the self-assembly of molecules has attracted substantial attention due to its role in toxic amyloid fibril formation and immense potential in the design and fabrication of novel biomaterials. This study presents the role of intermolecular electrostatic interaction on the self-assembly process of l-phenylalanine (L-Phe) amino acid. We have employed attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy to probe the existence of different ionization states of the amino acid in various pH aqueous solutions. The self-assembly process of L-Phe in the aqueous phase is explored by using circular dichroism absorption and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic tools. The observed spectral features have shown the signature of higher order structures and possible perturbation in the π–π stacking aromatic interactions for the cationic and anionic states of the amino acid. Scanning electron microscopy is used to probe the self-assembled morphology of the L-Phe amino acid dried samples prepared from the same pH aqueous solutions. We find that for the case of zwitterionic states the self-assembly nanostructures are dominated by the presence of fibrillar morphology, however interestingly for cationic and anionic states the morphology is dominated by the presence of flakes. Our finding demonstrates the potential influence of intermolecular electrostatic interaction over the aromatic π–π stacking interaction in hindering the fibril formation. Nanostructure morphology originating from the self-assembly of molecules has attracted substantial attention due to its role in toxic amyloid fibril formation and immense potential in the design and fabrication of novel biomaterials.![]()
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- Deepak Tomar
- Department of Physics
- Indian Institute of Technology Ropar
- Rupnagar
- India
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- Department of Physics
- Indian Institute of Technology Ropar
- Rupnagar
- India
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- Department of Physics
- Indian Institute of Technology Ropar
- Rupnagar
- India
- Center for Biomedical Engineering
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Ultrafast Vibrational Dynamics at Aqueous Interfaces Studied by 2D Heterodyne-Detected Vibrational Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy. SPRINGER SERIES IN OPTICAL SCIENCES 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-9753-0_10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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