Publications

Li X, Encheva M, Butt HJ, Backus EHG, Berger R. Adaptation and Recovery of a Styrene-Acrylic Acid Copolymer Surface to Water. Macromolecular Rapid Communications. 2022 Jun;43(12):2100733. Epub 2022 Mar 26. doi: 10.1002/marc.202100733

Lesnicki D, Wank V, Cyran JD, Backus EHG, Sulpizi M. Lower degree of dissociation of pyruvic acid at water surfaces than in bulk. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 2022 May 10;24(22):13510-13513. doi: 10.1039/d2cp01293f

Sosso GC, Sudera P, Backes AT, Whale TF, Froehlich-Nowoisky J, Bonn M et al. The role of structural order in heterogeneous ice nucleation. Chemical Science. 2022 Apr 8;13(17):5014-5026. Epub 2022 Apr 8. doi: 10.1039/d1sc06338c

Vaillard AS, El Haitami A, Dreier LB, Fontaine P, Cousin F, Gutfreund P et al. Vertically Heterogeneous 2D Semi-Interpenetrating Networks Based on Cellulose Acetate and Cross-Linked Polybutadiene. Langmuir. 2022 Mar 1;38(8):2538-2549. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c03084

Lukas M, Backus EHG, Bonn M, Grechko M. Passively Stabilized Phase-Resolved Collinear SFG Spectroscopy Using a Displaced Sagnac Interferometer. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part A: Molecules, Spectroscopy, Kinetics, Environment and General Theory. 2022 Feb 17;126(6):951-956. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c10155

Turetta N, Stoeckel MA, de Oliveira RF, Devaux F, Greco A, Cendra C et al. High-Performance Humidity Sensing in π-Conjugated Molecular Assemblies through the Engineering of Electron/Proton Transport and Device Interfaces. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2022 Feb 16;144(6):2546-2555. doi: 10.1021/jacs.1c10119

Hunger J, Schaefer J, Ober P, Seki T, Wang Y, Prädel L et al. Nature of Cations Critically Affects Water at the Negatively Charged Silica Interface. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2022;144(43):19726-19738. doi: 10.1021/jacs.2c02777

Vasileiadis T, D'Alvise TM, Saak CM, Pochylski M, Harvey S, V. Synatschke C et al. Fast Light-Driven Motion of Polydopamine Nanomembranes. Nano Letters. 2021 Dec 14;22(2):578–585. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c03165

Sudera P, Cyran JD, Bonn M, Backus EHG. Interfacial Vibrational Spectroscopy of the Water Bending Mode on Ice I-h. Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2021 Oct 21;125(41):22937-22942. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c08046

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

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