Interactions of Polyelectrolytes with Water and Ions at Air/Water Interfaces Studied by Phase-Sensitive Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy

2013 ◽  
Vol 117 (30) ◽  
pp. 15698-15703 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Hu ◽  
Zheng Yang ◽  
Keng C. Chou
2015 ◽  
Vol 112 (19) ◽  
pp. 5883-5887 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shumei Sun ◽  
Chuanshan Tian ◽  
Y. Ron Shen

Sum-frequency generation spectroscopy is surface specific only if the bulk contribution to the signal is negligible. Negligible bulk contribution is, however, not necessarily true, even for media with inversion symmetry. The inevitable challenge is to find the surface spectrum in the presence of bulk contribution, part of which has been believed to be inseparable from the surface contribution. Here, we show that, for nonpolar media, it is possible to separately deduce surface and bulk spectra from combined phase-sensitive sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopic measurements in reflection and transmission. The study of benzene interfaces is presented as an example.


Nano Letters ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
James M. Krier ◽  
William D. Michalak ◽  
Xiaojun Cai ◽  
Lindsay Carl ◽  
Kyriakos Komvopoulos ◽  
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2009 ◽  
Vol 96 (2) ◽  
pp. 345-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orsolya Hakkel ◽  
Zoltán Pászti ◽  
Tamás Keszthelyi ◽  
Krisztina Frey ◽  
László Guczi

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (25) ◽  
pp. 16875-16880 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Schaefer ◽  
Grazia Gonella ◽  
Mischa Bonn ◽  
Ellen H. G. Backus

Surface-specific vibrational sum-frequency generation spectroscopy (V-SFG) is used to obtain information about the molecular structure at charged interfaces.


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