TITLE: 'Water on surfaces: A tale of love, hate and misunderstandings'
AUTHOR: Ricardo García, ICMM-CSIC
WHEN: May, 18 - 12PM
WHERE: Salón de Actos, ICMM
ABSTRACT:
The interaction of water with a surface is an everyday phenomenon. Despite its ubiquity, a molecular-scale understanding of how water interacts with a solid surface is still missing. This situation has fueled a large number of old and new controversies. The emergence of 3D-AFM is changing for good our understanding on how water interacts with a solid surface and, in the process, addressing and solving many of the water-solid surface controversies.
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3. D. Martin-Jimenez, E. Chacon, P. Tarazona, R. Garcia. Atomically resolved three-dimensional structures of electrolyte aqueous solutions near a solid surface. Nature Commun. 7, 12164 (2016).
4. L.S.K. Bonagiri, D.M. Arvelo et al. Probing the molecular structure at graphite–water interfaces by correlating 3D-AFM and SHINERS. Nature Commun. 17, 2230 (2026).
