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Franky Bernal1,2, Amro Dodin2, Constantine Kyprianou1
1Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.
Abstract:
Combining Deep-UV second harmonic generation spectroscopy with molecular simulations, we confirm and quantify the specific adsorption of guanidinium cations to the air-water interface. Using a Langmuir analysis of measurements at multiple concentrations, we extract the Gibbs free energy of adsorption, finding it larger than typical thermal energies. Molecular simulations clarify the role of polarizability in tuning the thermodynamics of adsorption, and establish the preferential parallel alignment of guanidinium at the air-water interface. As a polyatomic cation, guanidinium represents one of the few examples of a positively charged species to exhibit a propensity for the air-water interface. As such, these results expand on the growing body of work on specific ion adsorption.
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