Publications of Ellen H. G. Backus

Weber, B.; Nagata, Y.; Ketzetzi, S.; Tang, F.; Smit, W. J.; Bakker, H. J.; Backus, E. H. G.; Bonn, M.; Bonn, D.: Molecular Insight into the Slipperiness of Ice. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 9 (11), pp. 2838 - 2842 (2018)

Abdelmonem, A.; Backus, E. H. G.; Hoffmann, N.; Sanchez, M. A.; Cyran, J. D.; Kiselev, A.; Bonn, M.: Surface-charge-induced orientation of interfacial water suppresses heterogeneous ice nucleation on alpha-alumina (0001). Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 17 (12), pp. 7827 - 7837 (2017)

Brumberg, A.; Hammonds, K.; Baker, I.; Backus, E. H. G.; Bisson, P. J.; Bonn, M.; Daghlian, C. P.; Mezger, M. D.; Shultz, M. J.: Single-crystal I-h ice surfaces unveil connection between macroscopic and molecular structure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114 (21), pp. 5349 - 5354 (2017)

Hosseinpour, S.; Tang, F.; Wang, F.; Livingstone, R. A.; Schlegel, S. J.; Ohto, T.; Bonn, M.; Nagata, Y.; Backus, E. H. G.: Chemisorbed and Physisorbed Water at the TiO2/Water Interface. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 8 (10), pp. 2195 - 2199 (2017)

Nitta, H.; Harano, K.; Isomura, M.; Backus, E. H. G.; Bonn, M.; Nakamura, E.: Conical Ionic Amphiphiles Endowed with Micellization Ability but Lacking Air-Water and Oil-Water Interfacial Activity. Journal of the American Chemical Society 139 (23), pp. 7677 - 7680 (2017)

Ohto, T.; Hunger, J.; Backus, E. H. G.; Mizukami, W.; Bonn, M.; Nagata, Y.: Trimethylamine-N-oxide: its hydration structure, surface activity, and biological function, viewed by vibrational spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 19 (10), pp. 6909 - 6920 (2017)

Qazi, M. J.; Liefferink, R. W.; Schlegel, S. J.; Backus, E. H. G.; Bonn, D.; Shahidzadeh, N.: Influence of Surfactants on Sodium Chloride Crystallization in Confinement. Langmuir 33 (17), pp. 4260 - 4268 (2017)

Sanchez, M. A.; Kling, T.; Ishiyama, T.; van Zadel, M.-J.; Bisson, P. J.; Mezger, M.; Jochum, M. N.; Cyran, J. D.; Smit, W. J.; Bakker, H. J. et al.; Shultz, M. J.; Morita, A.; Donadio, D.; Nagata, Y.; Bonn, M.; Backus, E. H. G.: Experimental and theoretical evidence for bilayer-by-bilayer surface melting of crystalline ice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114 (2), pp. 227 - 232 (2017)

Schaefer, J.; Gonella, G.; Bonn, M.; Backus, E. H. G.: Surface-specific vibrational spectroscopy of the water/silica interface: screening and interference. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 19 (25), pp. 16875 - 16880 (2017)

Smit, W. J.; Tang, F.; Nagata, Y.; Sanchez, M. A.; Hasegawa, T.; Backus, E. H. G.; Bonn, M.; Bakker, H. J.: Observation and Identification of a New OH Stretch Vibrational Band at the Surface of Ice. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 8 (15), pp. 3656 - 3660 (2017)

Smit, W. J.; Tang, F.; Sanchez, M. A.; Backus, E. H. G.; Xu, L. M.; Hasegawa, T.; Bonn, M.; Bakker, H. J.; Nagata, Y.: Excess Hydrogen Bond at the Ice-Vapor Interface around 200 K. Physical Review Letters 119 (13), 133003 (2017)

Carrier, O.; Backus, E. H. G.; Shahidzadeh, N.; Franz, J.; Wagner, M.; Nagata, Y.; Bonn, M.; Bonn, D.: Oppositely Charged Ions at Water-Air and Water-Oil Interfaces: Contrasting the Molecular Picture with Thermodynamics. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 7 (5), pp. 825 - 830 (2016)

Donovan, M. A.; Yimer, Y. Y.; Pfaendtner, J.; Backus, E. H. G.; Bonn, M.; Weidner, T.: Ultrafast Reorientational Dynamics of Leucine at the Air-Water Interface. Journal of the American Chemical Society 138 (16), pp. 5226 - 5229 (2016)

Khatib, R.; Backus, E. H. G.; Bonn, M.; Perez-Haro, M.-J.; Gaigeot, M. P.; Sulpizi, M.: Water orientation and hydrogen-bond structure at the fluorite/water interface. Scientific Reports 6, 24287 (2016)

Khatib, R.; Hasegawa, T.; Sulpizi, M.; Backus, E. H. G.; Bonn, M.; Nagata, Y.: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of SFG Librational Modes Spectra of Water at the Water-Air Interface. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 120 (33), pp. 18665 - 18673 (2016)

Livingstone, R. A.; Zhang, Z.; Piatkowski, L.; Bakker, H. J.; Hunger, J.; Bonn, M.; Backus, E. H. G.: Water in Contact with a Cationic Lipid Exhibits Bulklike Vibrational Dynamics. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 120 (38), pp. 10069 - 10078 (2016)

Nagata, Y.; Ohto, T.; Backus, E. H. G.; Bonn, M.: Molecular Modeling of Water Interfaces: From Molecular Spectroscopy to Thermodynamics. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 120 (16), pp. 3785 - 3796 (2016)

Ohto, T.; Backus, E. H. G.; Mizukami, W.; Hunger, J.; Bonn, M.; Nagata, Y.: Unveiling the Amphiphilic Nature of TMAO by Vibrational Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 120 (31), pp. 17435 - 17443 (2016)

Pandey, R.; Usui, K.; Livingstone, R. A.; Fischer, S. A.; Pfaendtner, J.; Backus, E. H. G.; Nagata, Y.; Fröhlich-Nowoisky, J.; Schmüser, L.; Mauri, S. et al.; Scheel, J. F.; Knopf, D. A.; Pöschl, U.; Bonn, M.; Weidner, T.: Ice-nucleating bacteria control the order and dynamics of interfacial water. Science Advances 2 (4), e1501630 (2016)

Schaefer, J.; Backus, E. H. G.; Nagata, Y.; Bonn, M.: Both Inter- and Intramolecular Coupling of O-H Groups Determine the Vibrational Response of the Water/Air Interface. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 7 (22), pp. 4591 - 4595 (2016)