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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 156, 期 9, 页码 -出版社
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0081209
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- MaxWater Initiative of the Max Planck Society
- DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) Project Based Personnel Exchange Program [57526761]
This study uses phase- and polarization-resolved sum-frequency generation spectroscopy to accurately determine the molecular orientation at interfaces. By combining multiple SFG datasets from different vibrational modes and a multidimensional orientational distribution, the molecular orientation can be determined. The method is successfully applied to formic acid molecules at the air-water interface.
Many essential processes occur at soft interfaces, from chemical reactions on aqueous aerosols in the atmosphere to biochemical recognition and binding at the surface of cell membranes. The spatial arrangement of molecules specifically at these interfaces is crucial for many of such processes. The accurate determination of the interfacial molecular orientation has been challenging due to the low number of molecules at interfaces and the ambiguity of their orientational distribution. Here, we combine phase- and polarization-resolved sum-frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy to obtain the molecular orientation at the interface. We extend an exponentially decaying orientational distribution to multiple dimensions, which, in conjunction with multiple SFG datasets obtained from the different vibrational modes, allows us to determine the molecular orientation. We apply this new approach to formic acid molecules at the air-water interface. The inferred orientation of formic acid agrees very well with ab initio molecular dynamics data. The phase-resolved SFG multimode analysis scheme using the multidimensional orientational distribution thus provides a universal approach for obtaining the interfacial molecular orientation. (c) 2022 Author(s). All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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