Interfacial water structure at polymer gel/quartz interfaces investigated by sum frequency generation spectroscopy.

Investigations of polyelectrolyte adsorption at the solid/liquid interface by sum frequency spectroscopy: evidence for long-range macromolecular alignment at highly charged quartz/water interfaces.

IR-visible sum frequency spectroscopy (SFS) was employed to investigate the molecular level details of the adsorption of the positively charged polyelectrolyte, polydiallyldimethylammonium chloride (PDDA), at the quartz/water interface. Below pH 9.0, signal from the interfacial water structure was visible, but none from the adsorbed polymer could be detected. This indicated that the PDDA was no...

Molecular Level Studies of Polymer Behaviors at the Water Interface Using Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy

Industrial plastics, biomedical polymers and numerous other polymeric systems are contacted with water for everyday functions and after disposal. Probing the interfacial molecular interactions between widely used polymers and water yields valuable information that can be extrapolated to macroscopic polymer/water interfacial behaviors so scientists can better understand polymer bio-compatibility...

Water Structure at Superhydrophobic Quartz/Water Interfaces : A Vibrational Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy Study

New information on water interfacial structure revealed by phase-sensitive surface spectroscopy.

A phase-sensitive sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopic technique is developed to study interfacial water structure of water/quartz interfaces. Measurements allow deduction of both real and imaginary parts of the surface nonlinear spectral response, revealing an unprecedentedly detailed picture of the net polar orientations of the water species at the interface. The orientations of the icelik...

Structure and Dynamics of Water at Model Human Lung Surfactant interfaces

We investigated the structure and dynamics of water in contact with a monolayer of artificial lung surfactant (LS), composed of four types of lipids and one protein. The interfacial water is investigated with frequency-domain and time-domain surface sum-frequency generation spectroscopy, in which the vibrational relaxation of specifically interfacial water molecules can be followed. We compare ...