Brønsted basicity of the air-water interface

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 46, 2012, Pages 18679-18683

  Mishra, Himanshu ^a,b   Enami, Shinichi ^c,d,e   Nielsen, Robert J ^a   Stewart, Logan A ^f   Hoffmann, Michael R ^a   Goddard III, William A ^a,b   Colussi, Agustín J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gas liquid reactions; Interfacial proton transfer; Surface potential; Water surface acidity

Indexed keywords

BRONSTED BASE; CARBOXYLIC ACID; WATER;

ACIDITY; AIR WATER INTERFACE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DISSOCIATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; HYDROPHOBICITY; ISOELECTRIC POINT; KINETICS; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SHEAR STRESS; SURFACE TENSION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84869206932     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1209307109     Document Type: Article

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