scholarly journals Nonlinear optical response of a gold surface in the visible range: A study by two-color sum-frequency generation spectroscopy. I. Experimental determination

2018 ◽  
Vol 148 (13) ◽  
pp. 134701 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Dalstein ◽  
A. Revel ◽  
C. Humbert ◽  
B. Busson
2012 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 571-579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilie Bulard ◽  
Marie-Pierre Fontaine-Aupart ◽  
Henri Dubost ◽  
Wanquan Zheng ◽  
Jean-Marie Herry ◽  
...  

In biomedical and food industry, surface colonization by bacteria is harmful: it leads to biofilm formation, a microbial consortia more resistant to antibiotics than planktonic bacteria. In order to design materials able to limit the biofilm formation, the effect of bacteria on materials has to be well characterized. In this work, a well-defined surface composed of a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of octadecanethiol (ODT) onto a gold surface is probedin situ. The SAM conformation is obtained using the femtosecond vibrational sum frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy. This technique provides selectively the molecular vibrational signature of the interface. The behaviour of the ODT SAM is studied in different environments: in air, in water, and upon exposure to hydrophilic or hydrophobicLactococcus lactisbacteria. Modelling the experimental SFG spectra reveals a measurable change of the SAM conformation which depends on the environment, especially on the hydrophilic-hydrophobic character.


Author(s):  
Xia Li ◽  
Günther Rupprechter

Sum frequency generation (SFG) vibrational spectroscopy is applied to ambient pressure surface science studies of adsorption and catalytic reactions at solid/gas interfaces.


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