Description
Catalysis
Environmental chemistry
Technical developments
Hendrik Bluhm
(Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society)
Environmental chemistry
Poster contribution
Surfactants are omnipresent on aqueous surfaces exposed to the atmosphere, as in the case of, e.g., lakes, rivers, and aerosol droplets. The largest contiguous surface is that of the oceans with air, covering more than 70% of the Earth. The ocean surface is involved in complex interfacial reactions in the marine boundary layer and is covered by a thin film of amphiphilic compounds. This...
