Correction: Photoelectron angular distributions as sensitive probes of surfactant layer structure at the liquid-vapor interface.

Correction for 'Photoelectron angular distributions as sensitive probes of surfactant layer structure at the liquid-vapor interface' by Rémi Dupuy , , 2022, , 4796-4808, https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CP05621B.

Electroreduction of CO in a Non-aqueous Electrolyte-The Generic Role of Acetonitrile.

Transition metal carbides, especially MoC, are praised to be efficient electrocatalysts to reduce CO to valuable hydrocarbons. However, on MoC in an aqueous electrolyte, exclusively the competing hydrogen evolution reaction takes place, and this discrepancy to theory was traced back to the formation of a thin oxide layer at the electrode surface. Here, we study the CO reduction activity at MoC in a non-aqueous electrolyte to avoid such passivation and to determine products and the CO reduction reaction pathway.

Photoelectron angular distributions as sensitive probes of surfactant layer structure at the liquid-vapor interface.

The characterization of liquid-vapor interfaces at the molecular level is an important underpinning for a basic understanding of fundamental heterogeneous processes in many areas, such as atmospheric science. Here we use X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to study the adsorption of a model surfactant, octanoic acid, at the water-gas interface. In particular, we examine the information contained in photoelectron angular distributions and show that information about the relative depth of molecules and functional groups within molecules can be obtained from these measurements.

Piecewise Multipole-Expansion Implicit Solvation for Arbitrarily Shaped Molecular Solutes.

The multipole-expansion (MPE) model is an implicit solvation model used to efficiently incorporate solvent effects in quantum chemistry. Even within the recent direct approach, the multipole basis used in MPE to express the dielectric response still solves the electrostatic problem inefficiently or not at all for solutes larger than approximately ten non-hydrogen atoms. In existing MPE parametrizations, the resulting systematic underestimation of the electrostatic solute-solvent interaction is presently compensated for by a systematic overestimation of nonelectrostatic attractive interactions.