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The Preparation of Electrohydrodynamic Bridges from Polar Dielectric Liquids
Published on: September 30, 2014
Water hydrogen bond structure near highly charged interfaces is not like ice
Satoshi Nihonyanagi1, Shoichi Yamaguchi, Tahei Tahara
1Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, Advanced Science Institute, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.
Abstract:
Imaginary chi(2) spectra of HOD at air/charged surfactant/aqueous interfaces highly resemble the IR spectrum of the bulk liquid HOD, showing no indication of the "ice-like" structure. Clearly, the hydrogen bond structures at highly charged interfaces are not like ice but very similar to the structure in the bulk.
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