Publications

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

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

Schaefer J, Backus EHG, Nagata Y, Bonn M. Both Inter- and Intramolecular Coupling of O-H Groups Determine the Vibrational Response of the Water/Air Interface. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2016 Nov 17;7(22):4591-4595. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b02513

Livingstone RA, Zhang Z, Piatkowski L, Bakker HJ, Hunger J, Bonn M et al. Water in contact with a cationic lipid exhibits bulklike vibrational dynamics. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2016 Sept 29;120(38):10069-10078. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b07085

Khatib R, Hasegawa T, Sulpizi M, Backus EHG, Bonn M, Nagata Y. Molecular Dynamics Simulations of SFG Librational Modes Spectra of Water at the Water-Air Interface. Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2016 Aug 25;120(33):18665-18673. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b06371

Ohto T, Backus EHG, Mizukami W, Hunger J, Bonn M, Nagata Y. Unveiling the Amphiphilic Nature of TMAO by Vibrational Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy. Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2016 Aug 11;120(31):17435-17443. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b04852

Nagata Y, Ohto T, Backus EHG, Bonn M. Molecular Modeling of Water Interfaces: From Molecular Spectroscopy to Thermodynamics. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2016 Apr 28;120(16):3785-3796. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b01012

Donovan MA, Yimer YY, Pfaendtner J, Backus EHG, Bonn M, Weidner T. Ultrafast Reorientational Dynamics of Leucine at the Air-Water Interface. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2016 Apr 27;138(16):5226-5229. doi: 10.1021/jacs.6b01878

Khatib R, Backus EHG, Bonn M, Perez-Haro MJ, Gaigeot MP, Sulpizi M. Water orientation and hydrogen-bond structure at the fluorite/water interface. Scientific Reports. 2016 Apr 12;6:24287. doi: 10.1038/srep24287

Pandey R, Usui K, Livingstone RA, Fischer SA, Pfaendtner J, Backus EHG et al. Ice-nucleating bacteria control the order and dynamics of interfacial water. Science Advances. 2016 Apr;2(4):e1501630. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1501630

Carrier O, Backus EHG, Shahidzadeh N, Franz J, Wagner M, Nagata Y et al. Oppositely Charged Ions at Water-Air and Water-Oil Interfaces: Contrasting the Molecular Picture with Thermodynamics. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2016 Mar 3;7(5):825-830. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02646

Ohto T, Backus EHG, Hsieh CS, Sulpizi M, Bonn M, Nagata Y. Lipid Carbonyl Groups Terminate the Hydrogen Bond Network of Membrane-Bound Water. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2015 Nov 19;6(22):4499-4503. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02141

Varol HS, Sánchez MA, Lu H, Baio JE, Malm C, Encinas N et al. Multiscale effects of interfacial polymer confinement in silica nanocomposites. Macromolecules. 2015 Nov 10;48(21):7929-7937. doi: 10.1021/acs.macromol.5b01111

Livingstone RA, Nagata Y, Bonn M, Backus EHG. Two Types of Water at the Water-Surfactant Interface Revealed by Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2015 Nov 6;137(47):14912-14919. doi: 10.1021/jacs.5b07845

Nagata Y, Hasegawa T, Backus EHG, Usui K, Yoshimune S, Ohto T et al. The surface roughness, but not the water molecular orientation varies with temperature at the water-air interface. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 2015 Aug 12;17(36):23559-23564. doi: 10.1039/c5cp04022a

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