Studies of water and solvents at liquid/solid interfaces by sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy

This dissertation studies the surface chemistry of water and organic solvents at liquid/mineral interfaces using IR-visible sum frequency generation (SFG) vibrational spectroscopy. The solvents studied include pentane, heptane, tetradecane and toluene, and the minerals include silica and mica. These...

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Main Author: Yang, Zheng
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/35848