Visit and seminar by Kislon Voitchovsky: Direct observation of the self-assembly and dynamics of single ions at the solid-water interface

Centre for Computational Physics

Dr. Kislon Voitchovsky from the University of Durham will give a seminar at the School of Mathematics and Physics, on Wednesday 9th of December 2015, 1.15 pm (room ENG209 in Engineering hub, building 13 on the uni map).

Direct observation of the self-assembly and dynamics of single ions at the solid-water interface

The behaviour of water and ions at the interface with immersed solids plays a central role in processes as disparate as crystal growth, electrochemistry, and biological function. Experimentally, gaining insights into the molecular mechanism underlying these processes remains challenging, partly because of the need to probe the system in-situ, locally and with sub-nanometre resolution.

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) can in principle overcome these difficulties, with recent developments making it possible to map sub-nanometre details of the liquid at the interface with immersed solids [1] and gather quantitative information about its local dynamics [1-2]. Here AFM is used…

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