Affiliation:
1. State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences 1 , Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, China
2. College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Inner Mongolia Minzu University 2 , Tongliao, Inner Mongolia 028000, China
Abstract
Interfacial water is ubiquitous on Earth, playing a crucial role in biology, chemistry, physics, materials science, and environmental science. Multiscale, hierarchical water motions on the surface of different materials under different conditions (temperature, hydration extent, pressure, etc.) and the coupling of this motion with the substrate/solute dynamics and the influence of these couplings on the material functions are complex, long lasting, interdisciplinary research topics. We herein focus on the coupling between the picosecond dynamical onset of substrates and their surface water at temperatures lower than the freezing point (273 K) and discuss the recent progress in the study of its molecular mechanisms.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Basic Scientific Research Foundation for Universities of the Inner Mongolia
Scientific Research Foundation of IMUN for Doctors
Subject
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,General Physics and Astronomy