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Single Molecule Vibrational Spectroscopy of Interfacial Water

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High Resolution Imaging, Spectroscopy and Nuclear Quantum Effects of Interfacial Water

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Vibrational spectroscopy has long been employed to characterize the intramolecular and intermolecular interactions of water, providing a sensitive probe for nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) of protons in energy space through isotope substitution experiments. In this chapter, we show the possibility of pushing the limit of vibrational spectroscopy of water down to the single-bond level using a novel technique called tip-enhanced (IETS) based on STM. This is achieved by gating the frontier orbitals of water towards the Fermi level with a chlorine-terminated STM tip to resonantly enhance the electron-vibration coupling. The signal-to-noise ratios of the tip-enhanced IETS are enhanced by orders of magnitude over the conventional STM-IETS, which is crucial for precisely determining the H-bonding strength and subsequently probing the NQEs of protons in water.

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Guo, J. (2018). Single Molecule Vibrational Spectroscopy of Interfacial Water. In: High Resolution Imaging, Spectroscopy and Nuclear Quantum Effects of Interfacial Water. Springer Theses. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1663-0_4

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