Surface structure of water from soft X-ray second harmonic generation
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· Nature Communications
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- University of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS); Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV (United States)
- Theiss Research, La Jolla, CA (United States); National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD (United States)
- University of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV (United States)
- Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA (United States)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
The microscopic structure of water’s surface is crucial to many natural and industrial processes, but studying its hydrogen bond (H-bond) network directly remains challenging due to the required interfacial sensitivity of experimental techniques. By leveraging advances in flat liquid sheet microjets and terawatt-scale attosecond soft X-ray pulses from the LCLS X-ray free electron laser, we employed soft X-ray second harmonic generation (SXSHG) spectroscopy to examine the liquid water/vapor interface. SXSHG combines the elemental selectivity of X-ray spectroscopies with the surface selectivity of SHG and gives access to the electronic structure of interfacial species. Here, we show the SXSHG spectrum differs from bulk water’s X-ray absorption, with its peak shifted several eV, indicating a vastly different electronic environment at the interface as compared to the bulk. First-principles electronic structure calculations show the signal is highly sensitive to H-bond interactions, such as water molecules accepting a single H-bond, which are surface abundant.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); University of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division (MSE)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; AC02-76SF00515; SC0023503; SC0024123
- Other Award/Contract Number:
- DMR190106
PHY210131
2138259
2138286
2138307
2137603
2138296
M21PL3263
DGE 1752814
- OSTI ID:
- 3024436
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 3020295
- Journal Information:
- Nature Communications, Journal Name: Nature Communications Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 16; ISSN 2041-1723
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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