Can electric fields drive chemistry for an aqueous microdroplet?

Hongxia Hao; Itai Leven; Teresa Head-Gordon

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-27941-x

Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

Can electric fields drive chemistry for an aqueous microdroplet?

Hongxia Hao,
Itai Leven,
Teresa Head-Gordon

Affiliations

Hongxia Hao: Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California
Itai Leven: Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California
Teresa Head-Gordon: Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27941-x
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Theoretical studies of the air-water interface of a water droplet show a wide distribution of strong electric fields at the surface that can make or break chemical bonds to accelerate chemical reactions over the bulk water phase.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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