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Scientists strike wet gold

Nature Chemistry volume 7, pages 192–194 (2015)Cite this article

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The structure of liquid water is intensely studied, but it is not clear what happens to it when a surface is introduced. Now with the aid of X-ray spectroscopy it has been found that water molecules at the interface with a gold electrode have a different structure than in the bulk.

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Figure 1: Using soft X-ray irradiation to find an energy-resolved electron spectrum from the metal–water interface.

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  1. Bernd Winter is in the Institute of Methods for Material Development, Helmholtz Center Berlin, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 15, D-12489 Berlin, Germany,

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Winter, B. Scientists strike wet gold. Nature Chem 7, 192–194 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2189

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