Publications

Yu X, Seki T, Yu CC, Zhong K, Sun S, Okuno M et al. Interfacial Water Structure of Binary Liquid Mixtures Reflects Nonideal Behavior. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2021 Sept 23;125(37):10639-10646. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c06001

Soengen H, Schlegel SJ, Jaques YM, Tracey J, Hosseinpour S, Hwang D et al. Water Orientation at the Calcite-Water Interface. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2021 Aug 12;12(31):7605-7611. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c01729

Ober P, Boon WQ, Dijkstra M, Backus EHG, van Roij R, Bonn M. Liquid flow reversibly creates a macroscopic surface charge gradient. Nature Communications. 2021 Jul 2;12(1):4102. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-24270-x

Gonella G, Backus EHG, Nagata Y, Bonthuis DJ, Loche P, Schlaich A et al. Water at charged interfaces. Nature reviews chemistry. 2021 Jul;5(7):466-485. doi: 10.1038/s41570-021-00293-2

Bera B, Backus EHG, Carrier O, Bonn M, Shahidzadeh N, Bonn D. Antisurfactant (Autophobic) Behavior of Superspreader Surfactant Solutions. Langmuir. 2021 May 25;37(20):6243-6247. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c00475

Amann-Winkel K, Murphy B, Lehmkühler F, Grübel G, Artemov V, Backus E et al. CMWS Pillar 1: Fundamental Properties of Water. In Grübel G, Schnell M, Goy C, Lehmkühler F, Bari S, editors, Centre for Molecular Water Science: White Paper. Hamburg: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY. 2021. p. 23-38 doi: 10.3204/PUBDB-2021-01859

Vietze L, Backus EHG, Bonn M, Grechko M. Distinguishing different excitation pathways in two-dimensional terahertz-infrared-visible spectroscopy. Journal of Chemical Physics. 2021 May 7;154(17):174201. doi: 10.1063/5.0047918

Backus EHG, Schaefer J, Bonn M. Probing the Mineral-Water Interface with Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition). 2021 May 3;60(19):10482-10501. doi: 10.1002/anie.202003085

Lukas M, Schwidetzky R, Kunert AT, Backus EHG, Poeschl U, Froehlich-Nowoisky J et al. Interfacial Water Ordering Is Insufficient to Explain Ice-Nucleating Protein Activity. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2021 Jan 14;12(1):218-223. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c03163

Naghilou A, Poettschacher L, Millesi F, Mann A, Supper P, Semmler L et al. Correlating the secondary protein structure of natural spider silk with its guiding properties for Schwann cells. Materials Science and Engineering C: Materials for Biological Applications. 2020 Nov;116:111219. doi: 10.1016/j.msec.2020.111219

Jin S, Liu Y, Deiseroth M, Liu J, Backus EHG, Li H et al. Use of Ion Exchange To Regulate the Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation Efficiency of Mica. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2020 Oct 21;142(42):17956-17965. doi: 10.1021/jacs.0c00920

Haroun F, El Haitami A, Ober P, Backus EHG, Cantin S. Poly(ethylene glycol)-block-poly(propylene glycol)-block-poly(ethylene glycol) Copolymer 2D Single Network at the Air-Water Interface. Langmuir: the A C S journal of surfaces and colloids. 2020 Aug 11;36(31):9142-9152. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c01398

Lesnicki D, Zhang Z, Bonn M, Sulpizi M, Backus EHG. Surface Charges at the CaF2/Water Interface Allow Very Fast Intermolecular Vibrational-Energy Transfer. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition). 2020 Jul 27;59(31):13116-13121. doi: 10.1002/anie.202004686

Sudera P, Cyran JD, Deiseroth M, Backus EHG, Bonn M. Interfacial Vibrational Dynamics of Ice I_hand Liquid Water. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2020 Jul 15;142(28):12005-12009. doi: 10.1021/jacs.0c04526

Qazi MJ, Schlegel SJ, Backus EHG, Bonn M, Bonn D, Shahidzadeh N. Dynamic Surface Tension of Surfactants in the Presence of High Salt Concentrations. Langmuir: the A C S journal of surfaces and colloids. 2020 Jul 14;36(27):7956-7964. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c01211

Seki T, Yu CC, Yu X, Ohto T, Sun S, Meister K et al. Decoding the molecular water structure at complex interfaces through surface-specific spectroscopy of the water bending mode. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 2020 May 21;22(19):10934-10940. doi: 10.1039/d0cp01269f

Deiseroth M, Bonn M, Backus EHG. Orientation independent vibrational dynamics of lipid-bound interfacial water. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 2020 May 14;22(18):10142-10148. doi: 10.1039/d0cp01099e

Tang F, Ohto T, Sun S, Rouxel JR, Imoto S, Backus EHG et al. Molecular Structure and Modeling of Water-Air and Ice-Air Interfaces Monitored by Sum-Frequency Generation. Chemical Reviews. 2020 Apr 22;120(8):3633-3667. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00512

Vaillard AS, El Haitami A, Dreier LB, Backus EHG, Cantin S. Confinement and Cross-Linking of 1,2-Polybutadiene in Two Dimensions at the Air-Water Interface. Langmuir: the A C S journal of surfaces and colloids. 2020 Feb 4;36(4):862-871. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b03297

Das S, Imoto S, Sun S, Nagata Y, Backus EHG, Bonn M. Nature of Excess Hydrated Proton at the Water-Air Interface. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2020 Jan 15;142(2):945-952. doi: 10.1021/jacs.9b10807

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