Recent Publications

Sun S, Schaefer J, Backus EHG, Bonn M. How surface-specific is 2nd-order non-linear spectroscopy? Journal of Chemical Physics. 2019 Dec 21;151(23):230901. doi: 10.1063/1.5129108

Seki T, Sun S, Zhong K, Yu CC, Machel K, Dreier LB et al. Unveiling Heterogeneity of Interfacial Water through the Water Bending Mode. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2019 Nov 7;10(21):6936-6941. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b02748

Das S, Bonn M, Backus EHG. The Surface Activity of the Hydrated Proton Is Substantially Higher than That of the Hydroxide Ion. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition). 2019 Oct 28;58(44):15636-15639. doi: 10.1002/anie.201908420

Dreier LB, Wolde-Kidan A, Bonthuis DJ, Netz RR, Backus EHG, Bonn M. Unraveling the Origin of the Apparent Charge of Zwitterionic Lipid Layers. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2019 Oct 17;10(20):6355-6359. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b02587

Deiseroth M, Bonn M, Backus EHG. Electrolytes Change the Interfacial Water Structure but Not the Vibrational Dynamics. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part B: Condensed Matter, Materials, Surfaces, Interfaces & Biophysical. 2019 Oct 10;123(40):8610-8616. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b08131

Dreier LB, Liu Z, Narita A, van Zadel MJ, Muellen K, Tielrooij KJ et al. Surface-Specific Spectroscopy of Water at a Potentiostatically Controlled Supported Graphene Monolayer. Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2019 Oct 3;123(39):24031-24038. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b05844

Sun S, Tang F, Imoto S, Moberg DR, Ohto T, Paesani F et al. Comment on "Orientational Distribution of Free O-H Groups of Interfacial Water is Exponential" Reply. Physical Review Letters. 2019 Aug 29;123(9):099602. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.099602

Abdelmonem A, Bonn M, Luetzenkirchen J, Backus E, Cyran J, Lukas M et al. Vapor-liquid-ice environmental interactions with mineral surfaces on the molecular level using nonlinear optical spectroscopy. American Chemical Society. Abstracts of Papers (at the National Meeting). 2019 Aug 25;258:593-PHYS.

Schlegel SJ, Hosseinpour S, Gebhard M, Devi A, Bonn M, Backus EHG. How water flips at charged titanium dioxide: an SFG-study on the water-TiO2 interface. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 2019 May 7;21(17):8956-8964. doi: 10.1039/c9cp01131e

Nagata Y, Hama T, Backus EHG, Mezger M, Bonn D, Bonn M et al. The Surface of Ice under Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Conditions. Accounts of Chemical Research. 2019 Apr 16;52(4):1006-1015. doi: 10.1021/acs.accounts.8b00615

Sun S, Bisson PJ, Bonn M, Shultz MJ, Backus EHG. Phase-Sensitive Sum-Frequency Generation Measurements Using a Femtosecond Nonlinear Interferometer. Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2019 Mar 28;123(12):7266-7270. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b00861

Cyran JD, Backus EHG, van Zadel MJ, Bonn M. Comparative Adsorption of Acetone on Water and Ice Surfaces. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition). 2019 Mar 11;58(11):3620-3624. doi: 10.1002/anie.201813517

Dreier LB, Bonn M, Backus EHG. Hydration and Orientation of Carbonyl Groups in Oppositely Charged Lipid Monolayers on Water. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part B: Condensed Matter, Materials, Surfaces, Interfaces & Biophysical. 2019 Feb 7;123(5):1085-1089. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b12297

Cyran JD, Donovan MA, Vollmer D, Brigiano FS, Pezzotti S, Galimberti DR et al. Molecular hydrophobicity at a macroscopically hydrophilic surface. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). 2019 Jan 29;116(5):1520-1525. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1819000116

Das S, Bonn M, Backus EHG. The surface affinity of cations depends on both the cations and the nature of the surface. Journal of Chemical Physics. 2019 Jan 28;150(4):044706. doi: 10.1063/1.5065075