Interfacial Nanochemistry

Cover -- Title Page -- Contributors -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1. Second Harmonic Generation at Liquid/Liquid Interfaces -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 SHG theory -- 1.3 Experimental techniques -- 1.4 The bare hydrocarbon/water interface -- 1.5 Adsorption of /para-nitrophenol -- 1.6 Flow cell experiments -- 1.7 Dye molecules at the dodecane/water interface -- 1.8 Electrochemical liquid/liquid interfaces -- 1.9 Chiral molecules at liquid/liquid interfaces -- 1.10 SHG from micelles and liposomes -- 1.11 Concluding remarks -- Chapter 2. Vibrational Sum-Frequency Spectroscopic Investigations of Molecular Interactions at Liquid/Liquid Interfaces -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Theoretical considerations of VSFS -- 2.3 Experimental considerations -- 2.4 Applications -- 2.5 Summary and future directions -- Chapter 3. Observation of Dynamic Molecular Behaviour at Liquid/Liquid Interfaces by Using the Time-Resolved Quasi-Elastic Laser Scattering Method -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Time-resolved quasi-elastic laser scattering method -- 3.3 A phase transfer catalytic reaction at a liquid/liquid interface -- 3.4 A chemical oscillation induced by anionic surfactant at a w/nb interface -- 3.5 Concluding remarks -- Chapter 4. Direct Force Measurement at Liquid/Liquid Interfaces -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Types of colloidal forces -- 4.3 Atomic force microscopy at rigid interfaces -- 4.4 Force measurements at liquid interfaces -- 4.5 General behaviour of forces at liquid interfaces -- 4.6 Concluding remarks -- Chapter 5. A Molecular Theory of Solutions at Liquid Interfaces -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Molecular theory of fluid phase equilibria -- 5.3 Microscopic description of liquid/liquid and liquid/vapour interfaces -- Chapter 6. Electrochemical Processes at Aqueous/Organic Solution or Aqueous/Membrane Interfaces -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Voltammogram for ion transfer at the w/o interface -- 6.3 Voltammogram for electron transfer at the w/o interface -- 6.4 Ion transfer coupled with electron transfer at the w/o interface -- 6.5 Process of ion transport through a membrane -- 6.6 New types of membrane reactions mimicking biological processes [27,28] -- 6.7 Oscillation of membrane current or membrane potential [32] -- 6.8 Conclusion -- Chapter 7. Electrochemical Instability at Liquid/Liquid Interfaces -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Theoretical background -- 7.3 Experimental features of electrochemical instability in electrochemical transfer of ionic surfactant across the liquid/liquid interface -- 7.4 Conclusions -- Chapter 8. Electron Transfer at Liquid/Liquid Interfaces -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Electron transfer at the polarizable o/w interface -- 8.3 New methodologies -- 8.4 Reaction mechanisms -- 8.5 Concluding remarks -- Chapter 9. Mass Transfer and Reaction Rate in the Nano-Region of Microdroplet/Solution Interfaces -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Manipulation, electrochemistry and spectroscopy of single microdroplets -- 9.3 Microdroplet size effect on mass transfer and reaction rate -- 9.4 Simple ion-pair extraction in a single micro-oil-droplet/ water system -- 9.5 Ion-pair extraction of an anionic surfactant with a cationicdye -- 9.6 Concluding remarks -- Chapter 10. Single Molecule Diffusion and Me.