4 papers
Hydrogen-Bond Donor-Acceptor Imbalance in Low-Frequency Terahertz Water Spectra
Lilian Najm Alsayed, Florian Pabst, Giuseppe Cassone +2
The low-frequency dielectric response of liquid water is commonly described by a dominant Debye relaxation together with additional faster contributions whose microscopic origin re…
Interfacial Electric Fields in Water Nanodroplets are Weakly Dependent on Curvature and pH
Gabriele Amante, Fortunata Panzera, Gabriele Centi +4
The origin of enhanced reactivity in aqueous microdroplets remains debated, with interfacial electric fields (IEFs) often invoked as catalytic drivers. Here, we provide a quantum-m…
Collective Electronic Polarization Drives Charge Asymmetry at Oil-Water Interfaces
Gabriele Amante, Klaudia Mrazikova, Gabriele Centi +3
Why kinetically stable oil droplets in water spontaneously acquire a negative charge remains one of the most vigorously debated questions in interfacial science. Here, we combine n…
Deconstructing the Origins of Interfacial Catalysis: Why Electric Fields are Inseparable from Solvation
Solana Di Pino, Debarshi Banerjee, Marta Monti +3
In the last decade, there has been a surge of experiments showing that certain chemical reactions undergo an enormous boost when taken from bulk aqueous conditions to microdroplet…