Liquid Interfaces
Liquid-liquid and liquid-gas interfaces play an important role in a wide variety of different scientific disciplines, from biology to chemical processing and environmental science. Such systems are found all around us, for example in biological membranes, vesicles (drug delivery), and emulsions (milk, cosmetics). While solid interfaces have been extensively investigated there are many open questions relating to liquid interfaces: How do atoms and molecules behave at a liquid interface, which arrangements are energetically most favourable, how does the structure of liquid interfaces influence important physical and chemical properties, such as transport through the interface and interface reactions? We use the high brilliant X-ray beams of modern third generation synchrotron sources to study the atomic structure at these interfaces and have designed a dedicated liquid surface diffractometer (LISA) which is now operational at the High Resolution Beamline of PETRA III in Hamburg.
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Contact: Dr. Bridget Murphy
Funding: BMBF Verbundprojekt 05KS7FK3
Selected publications:
- Effect of cholesterol and ergosterol on the antibiotic amphotericin B interactions with dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine monolayers: X-ray reflectivity study
D.M. Kaminski, G. Czernel, B. Murphy, B. Runge, O.M. Magnussen, M. Gagos, Biochim. et Biophys. Acta – Biomembranes, 1838, 2947–2953 (2014) - A novel X-ray diffractometer for studies of liquid-liquid interfaces
B. M. Murphy, M. Greve, B. Runge, C.T. Koops, A. Elsen, J. Stettner, O. Seeck, O. M. Magnussen, J. Synchr. Rad., 21, 45-56 (2014) - In situ x-ray studies of adlayer-induced crystal nucleation at the liquid-liquid interface
A. Elsen, S. Festersen, B. Runge, C.T. Koops, B. M. Ocko, M. Deutsch, O. Seeck, B. M. Murphy, O. M. Magnussen, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 110, 6663-6668 (2013) - The high-resolution diffraction beamline P08 at PETRA III
O.H. Seeck, C. Deiter, K. Pflaum, F. Bertram, A. Beerlink, H. Franz, J. Horbach, H. Schulte-Schrepping, B. M. Murphy, M. Greve, O. Magnussen, J. Synchrotron Rad., 19, 30-38 (2012) - Surface layering at the mercury-electrolyte interface
A. Elsen, B. M. Murphy, B. M. Ocko, L. Tamam, M. Deutsch, I. Kuzmenko, O. M. Magnussen, Phys. Rev. Lett., 104, 105501 (2010) - Surface Layering at the Mercury-Electrolyte Interface
Elsen, B. M. Murphy, B. M. Ocko, L. Tamam, M. Deutsch, I. Kuzmenko, and O. M. Magnussen, Phys. Rev. Lett., accepted for publication (2010) - A New Diffractometer for Studies of Liquid – Liquid Interfaces
B. M. Murphy, M. Greve, B. Runge, C. T. Koops, A. Elsen, J. Stettner O.H. Seeck, and O. M. Magnussen, SRI 2009 Proceedings; American Institute of Physics, accepted for publication (2010)