Publications

Abdelmonem A, Backus EHG, Bonn M. Ice Nucleation at the Water-Sapphire Interface: Transient Sum-Frequency Response without Evidence for Transient Ice Phase. Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2018 Nov 1;122(43):24760-24764. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b07480

Bera B, Carrier O, Backus EHG, Bonn M, Shahidzadeh N, Bonn D. Counteracting Interfacial Energetics for Wetting of Hydrophobic Surfaces in the Presence of Surfactants. Langmuir. 2018 Oct 16;34(41):12344-12349. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b02874

Dreier LB, Bernhard C, Gonella G, Backus EHG, Bonn M. Surface Potential of a Planar Charged Lipid-Water Interface. What Do Vibrating Plate Methods, Second Harmonic and Sum Frequency Measure? Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2018 Oct 4;9(19):5685-5691. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b02093

Weber B, Nagata Y, Ketzetzi S, Tang F, Smit WJ, Bakker HJ et al. Molecular Insight into the Slipperiness of Ice. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2018 Jun 7;9(11):2838-2842. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b01188

Cyran JD, Backus EHG, Nagata Y, Bonn M. Structure from Dynamics: Vibrational Dynamics of Interfacial Water as a Probe of Aqueous Heterogeneity. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2018 Apr 12;122(14):3667-3679. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b10574

Dreier LB, Nagata Y, Lutz H, Gonella G, Hunger J, Backus EHG et al. Saturation of charge-induced water alignment at model membrane surfaces. Science Advances. 2018 Mar 28;4(3):aap7415. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aap7415

Backus EHG, Cyran JD, Grechko M, Nagata Y, Bonn M. Time-Resolved Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy: A Quantitative Comparison between Intensity and Phase-Resolved Spectroscopy. Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 2018 Mar 8;122(9):2401-2410. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b12303

Nagata Y, Backus EHG, Bonn M. Dynamics of water molecules at the water/air interface. In Encyclopedia of Interfacial Chemistry: Surface Science and Electrochemistry. Elsevier. 2018. p. 348-355 doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-409547-2.13229-9

Smit WJ, Tang F, Sánchez MA, Backus EHG, Xu L, Hasegawa T et al. Excess Hydrogen Bond at the Ice-Vapor Interface around 200 K. Physical review letters. 2017 Sept 28;119(13):133003. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.133003

Smit WJ, Tang F, Nagata Y, Sánchez MA, Hasegawa T, Backus EHG et al. Observation and Identification of a New OH Stretch Vibrational Band at the Surface of Ice. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2017 Aug 3;8(15):3656-3660. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b01295

Abdelmonem A, Backus EHG, Hoffmann N, Sánchez MA, Cyran JD, Kiselev A et al. Surface-charge-induced orientation of interfacial water suppresses heterogeneous ice nucleation on α-alumina (0001). Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 2017 Jun 29;17(12):7827-7837. doi: 10.5194/acp-17-7827-2017

Brumberg A, Hammonds K, Baker I, Backus EHG, Bisson PJ, Bonn M et al. Correction for Brumberg et al., Single-crystal I_h ice surfaces unveil connection between macroscopic and molecular structure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2017 Jun 27;114(26):E5276. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1708643114

Nitta H, Harano K, Isomura M, Backus EHG, Bonn M, Nakamura E. Conical Ionic Amphiphiles Endowed with Micellization Ability but Lacking Air-Water and Oil-Water Interfacial Activity. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2017 Jun 14;139(23):7677-7680. doi: 10.1021/jacs.7b01596

Brumberg A, Hammonds K, Baker I, Backus EHG, Bisson PJ, Bonn M et al. Single-crystal I_h ice surfaces unveil connection between macroscopic and molecular structure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2017 May 23;114(21):5349-5354. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1703056114

Hosseinpour S, Tang F, Wang F, Livingstone RA, Schlegel SJ, Ohto T et al. Chemisorbed and Physisorbed Water at the TiO₂/Water Interface. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2017 May 18;8(10):2195-2199. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b00564

Qazi MJ, Liefferink RW, Schlegel SJ, Backus EHG, Bonn D, Shahidzadeh N. Influence of Surfactants on Sodium Chloride Crystallization in Confinement. Langmuir. 2017 May 2;33(17):4260-4268. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b00244

Ohto T, Hunger J, Backus EHG, Mizukami W, Bonn M, Nagata Y. Trimethylamine-N-oxide:its hydration structure, surface activity, and biological function, viewed by vibrational spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 2017 Mar 14;19(10):6909-6920. doi: 10.1039/c6cp07284d

Alejandra Sánchez M, Kling T, Ishiyama T, Van Zadel MJ, Bisson PJ, Mezger M et al. Experimental and theoretical evidence for bilayer-bybilayer surface melting of crystalline ice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2017 Jan 10;114(2):227-232. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1612893114

Schaefer J, Gonella G, Bonn M, Backus EHG. Surface-specific vibrational spectroscopy of the water/silica interface: Screening and interference. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 2017;19(25):16875-16880. doi: 10.1039/c7cp02251d

Wang F, Jin Z, Jiang Y, Backus EHG, Bonn M, Lou SN et al. Probing the charge separation process on In₂S₃/Pt-TiO₂ nanocomposites for boosted visible-light photocatalytic hydrogen production. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 2016 Dec 5;198:25-31. doi: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2016.05.048

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