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Probing the Structure and Dynamics of Interfacial Water with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy
Published on: May 27, 2018
Progress in modeling of ion effects at the vapor/water interface
Roland R Netz1, Dominik Horinek
1Fachbereich Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. rnetz@physik.fu-berlin.de
Abstract:
The behavior of halide salts at the vapor/water interface has been the focus of a tremendous amount of work in the past ten years. A molecular view of the interface has been introduced with the observation that large anions have some affinity for the interface, but a quantitative description of the driving forces that determine ion adsorption or repulsion at the interface is still missing. This review discusses recent developments that are based on classical and quantum-chemical molecular simulations as well as developments that are based on simple potential models.
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