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pH drives electron density fluctuations that enhance electric field-induced liquid flow

Sylvie Roke, Saranya Pullanchery Sankara Narayanan, Sergey Kulik, Tereza Schönfeldová

Liquid flow along a charged interface is commonly described by classical continuum theory, which represents the electric double layer by uniformly distributed point charges. The electrophoretic mobility of hydrophobic nanodroplets in water doubles in magni ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2024

Interfacial Inversion, Interference, and IR Absorption in Vibrational Sum Frequency Scattering Experiments

Sylvie Roke, Saranya Pullanchery Sankara Narayanan, Lei Zhang, Sergey Kulik

Molecular interfacial structure greatly determines thepropertiesof nano- and microscale systems. Vibrational sum frequency scattering(SFS) spectroscopy is a unique interface-selective tool to measurethe interfacial vibrational spectrum of sub-micron to mic ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Lysozyme Interaction with Phospholipid Nanodroplets Probed by Sum Frequency Scattering Vibrational Spectroscopy

Sylvie Roke, Halil Ibrahim Okur, Jan Dedic, Sergey Kulik

When a nanoparticle (NP) is introduced into a biological environment, its identity and interactions are immediately attributed to the dense layer of proteins that quickly covers the particle. The formation of this layer, dubbed the protein corona, is in ge ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Water Structure at the Hydrophobic Nanodroplet Surface Revealedby Vibrational Sum Frequency Scattering Using Isotopic Dilution br

Sylvie Roke, Saranya Pullanchery Sankara Narayanan, Sergey Kulik

The water structure at the hydrophobic/waterinterface is key toward understanding hydrophobicity at themolecular level. Herein, we characterize the hydrogen-bondingnetwork of interfacial water next to sub-micron-sized hydrophobicoil droplets dispersed in w ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Resolving the charging paradox of neat oil droplets in water

Sergey Kulik

The thesis covers the series of questions regarding the molecular structure and charge of oil nanodroplets in water. This work proposes a mechanism responsible for the stabilization of oil nanodroplets in water, which does not involve OH- adsorption. First ...

EPFL2022

Charge transfer across C-H center dot center dot center dot O hydrogen bonds stabilizes oil droplets in water

Sylvie Roke, Saranya Pullanchery Sankara Narayanan, Sergey Kulik, Benjamin Rehl

The hydrophobic-water interface plays a key role in biological interactions. However, both the hydrophobic-water interfacial molecular structure and the origin of the negative zeta potential of hydrophobic droplets in water are heavily contested. We report ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2021

Vibrational Sum Frequency Scattering in Absorptive Media: A Theoretical Case Study of Nano-objects in Water

Sylvie Roke, Saranya Pullanchery Sankara Narayanan, Sergey Kulik

The structures of interfaces of nano- and microscale objects in an aqueous solution are important for a wide variety of physical, chemical, and biological processes. Vibrational sum frequency (SF) scattering has emerged as a useful and unique probe of the ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

On the stability and necessary electrophoretic mobility of bare oil nanodroplets in water

Sylvie Roke, Hilton Barbosa De Aguiar, Saranya Pullanchery Sankara Narayanan, Halil Ibrahim Okur, Sergey Kulik

Hydrophobic oil droplets, particles, and air bubbles can be dispersed in water as kinetically stabilized dispersions. It has been established since the 19th century that such objects harbor a negative electrostatic potential roughly twice larger than the t ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2020