Publications of Ellen H. G. Backus

Ohto, T.; Backus, E. H. G.; Hsieh, C.-S.; Sulpizi, M.; Bonn, M.; Nagata, Y.: Lipid Carbonyl Groups Terminate the Hydrogen Bond Network of Membrane-Bound Water. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 6 (22), pp. 4499 - 4503 (2015)

Okuno, M.; Mezger, M.; Stangenberg, R.; Baumgarten, M.; Müllen, K.; Bonn, M.; Backus, E. H. G.: Interaction of a Patterned Amphiphilic Polyphenylene Dendrimer with a Lipid Mono layer: Electrostatic Interactions Dominate. Langmuir 31, pp. 1980 - 1987 (2015)

Varol, H. S.; Sanchez, M. A.; Lu, H.; Baio, J. E.; Malm, C.; Encinas, N.; Mermet-Guyennet, M. R. B.; Martzel, N.; Bonn, D.; Bonn, M. et al.; Weidner, T.; Backus, E. H. G.; Parekh, S. H.: Multiscale Effects of Interfacial Polymer Confinement in Silica Nanocomposites. Macromolecules 48 (21), pp. 7929 - 7937 (2015)

Backus, E. H. G.; Tielrooij, K. J.; Bonn, M.; Bakker, H. J.: Probing ultrafast temperature changes of aqueous solutions with coherent terahertz pulses. Optics Letters 39 (7), pp. 1717 - 1720 (2014)

El Haitami, A.; Backus, E. H. G.; Cantin, S.: Synthesis at the Air-Water Interface of a Two-Dimensional Semi-Interpenetrating Network Based on Poly(dimethylsiloxane) and Cellulose Acetate Butyrate. Langmuir 30 (40), pp. 11919 - 11927 (2014)

Hsieh, C.-S.; Okuno, M.; Hunger, J.; Backus, E. H. G.; Nagata, Y.; Bonn, M.: Aqueous Heterogeneity at the Air/Water Interface Revealed by 2D-HD-SFG Spectroscopy. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 53 (31), pp. 8146 - 8149 (2014)

Lis, D.; Backus, E. H. G.; Hunger, J.; Parekh, S. H.; Bonn, M.: Liquid flow along a solid surface reversibly alters interfacial chemistry. Science 344 (6188), pp. 1138 - 1142 (2014)

Piatkowski, L.; Zhang, Z.; Backus, E. H. G.; Bakker, H. J.; Bonn, M.: Extreme surface propensity of halide ions in water. Nature Communications 5, 4083 (2014)

Schach, D.; Globisch, C.; Roeters, S. J.; Woutersen, S.; Fuchs, A.; Weiss, C. K.; Backus, E. H. G.; Landfester, K.; Bonn, M.; Peter, C. et al.; Weidner, T.: Sticky water surfaces: Helix-coil transitions suppressed in a cell-penetrating peptide at the air-water interface. The Journal of Chemical Physics 141 (22), 22D517 (2014)

Strazdaite, S.; Versluis, J.; Backus, E. H. G.; Bakker, H. J.: Enhanced ordering of water at hydrophobic surfaces. The Journal of Chemical Physics 140 (5), 054711 (2014)

Hsieh, C.-S.; Campen, K.; Okuno, M.; Backus, E. H. G.; Nagata, Y.; Bonn, M.: Mechanism of vibrational energy dissipation of free OH groups at the air-water interface. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110 (47), pp. 18780 - 18785 (2013)

Nagata, Y.; Hsieh, C.-S.; Hasegawa, T.; Voll, J.; Backus, E. H. G.; Bonn, M.: Water Bending Mode at the Water-Vapor Interface Probed by Sum-Frequency Generation Spectroscopy: A Combined Molecular Dynamics Simulation and Experimental Study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 4 (11), pp. 1872 - 1877 (2013)

Roeters, S. J.; van Dijk, C. N.; Torres-Knoop, A.; Backus, E. H. G.; Campen, K.; Bonn, M.; Woutersen, S.: Determining In Situ Protein Conformation and Orientation from the Amide-I Sum-Frequency Generation Spectrum: Theory and Experiment. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 117 (29), pp. 6311 - 6322 (2013)

Zakerin, M.; Kappl, M.; Backus, E. H. G.; Butt, H.-J.; Schönfeld, F.: Capillary forces between rigid spheres and elastic supports: the role of Young's modulus and equilibrium vapor adsorption. Soft Matter 9 (17), pp. 4534 - 4543 (2013)

Backus, E. H. G.; Abrakhi, S.; Peralta, S.; Teyssie, D.; Fichet, O.; Cantin, S.: Sum-Frequency Generation Spectroscopy of Cinnamate Modified Cellulosic Polymer at the Air-Water Interface. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 116 (20), pp. 6041 - 6049 (2012)

Backus, E. H. G.; Bonn, D.; Cantin, S.; Roke, S.; Bonn, M.: Laser-Heating-Induced Displacement of Surfactants on the Water Surface. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 116 (9), pp. 2703 - 2712 (2012)

Backus, E. H. G.; Garcia-Araez, N.; Bonn, M.; Bakker, H. J.: On the Role of Fresnel Factors in Sum-Frequency Generation Spectroscopy of Metal-Water and Metal-Oxide-Water Interfaces. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 116 (44), pp. 23351 - 23361 (2012)

Bonn, M.; Bakker, H. J.; Tong, Y. J.; Backus, E. H. G.: No Ice-Like Water at Aqueous Biological Interfaces. Biointerphases 7 (1-4), 20 (2012)

Nagata, Y.; Pool, R. E.; Backus, E. H. G.; Bonn, M.: Nuclear Quantum Effects Affect Bond Orientation of Water at the Water-Vapor Interface. Physical Review Letters 109 (22), 226101 (2012)

Pool, R. E.; Versluis, J.; Backus, E. H. G.; Bonn, M.: Comparative Study of Direct and Phase-Specific Vibrational Sum-Frequency Generation Spectroscopy: Advantages and Limitations. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 115 (51), pp. 15362 - 15369 (2011)