TY - JOUR
T1 - Enhancement of the Hydrogen-Bonding Network of Water Confined in a Polyelectrolyte Brush
AU - Yamazoe, Kosuke
AU - Higaki, Yuji
AU - Inutsuka, Yoshihiro
AU - Miyawaki, Jun
AU - Cui, Yi Tao
AU - Takahara, Atsushi
AU - Harada, Yoshihisa
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by the Photon and Quantum Basic Research Coordinated Development Program from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan. This work was performed under the Research Program for Next Generation Young Scientists of ?Network Joint Research for Materials and Devices: Dynamic Alliance for Open Innovation Bridging Human, Environment and Materials.? Experiments at SPring-8 BL07LSU were performed jointly by the Synchrotron Radiation Research Organization and the University of Tokyo (proposal nos. 2015B7403 and 2016A7507).
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© 2017 American Chemical Society.
PY - 2017/4/25
Y1 - 2017/4/25
N2 - Water existing in the vicinity of polyelectrolytes exhibits unique structural properties, which demonstrate key roles in chemistry, biology, and geoscience. In this study, X-ray absorption and emission spectroscopy was employed to observe the local hydrogen-bonding structure of water confined in a charged polyelectrolyte brush. Even at room temperature, a majority of the water molecules confined in the polyelectrolyte brush exhibited one type of hydrogen-bonding configuration: a slightly distorted, albeit ordered, configuration. The findings from this study provide new insight in terms of the correlation between the function and local structure of water at the interface of biological materials under physiological conditions.
AB - Water existing in the vicinity of polyelectrolytes exhibits unique structural properties, which demonstrate key roles in chemistry, biology, and geoscience. In this study, X-ray absorption and emission spectroscopy was employed to observe the local hydrogen-bonding structure of water confined in a charged polyelectrolyte brush. Even at room temperature, a majority of the water molecules confined in the polyelectrolyte brush exhibited one type of hydrogen-bonding configuration: a slightly distorted, albeit ordered, configuration. The findings from this study provide new insight in terms of the correlation between the function and local structure of water at the interface of biological materials under physiological conditions.
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U2 - 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b00243
DO - 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b00243
M3 - Article
C2 - 28359152
AN - SCOPUS:85018623053
VL - 33
SP - 3954
EP - 3959
JO - Langmuir
JF - Langmuir
SN - 0743-7463
IS - 16
ER -