Publications by Arianna Marchioro

Membrane Potential Fluctuations and Water Asymmetry on Plasma Cell and Model Lipid Membranes: Origins, Implications and Properties

Sylvie Roke, Arianna Marchioro, Orly Bagunu Tarun, Seonwoo Lee, Mischa Samuel Flór, Iwona Swiderska, Maksim Eremchev, David Roesel, Bryan Zhi Li

Membrane potential fluctuations have previously been detected using second harmonic (SH) water imaging on neuronal cells and model lipid bilayer membranes. We report that such fluctuations are also visible when membrane potential-sensitive fluorophores are ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2025

Does the ionic distribution in the electrical double layer modify second harmonic scattering?

Sylvie Roke, Arianna Marchioro, Bingxin Chu

Surface-specific nonlinear optical techniques are ideally suited to investigate the complex structure of aqueous interfaces. For colloidal particles dispersed in aqueous solutions, interfacial properties can be retrieved with angle-resolved second harmonic ...

AIP Publishing2024

Evolution of the electrical double layer with electrolyte concentration probed by second harmonic scattering

Sylvie Roke, Arianna Marchioro, Bingxin Chu, Marie Bischoff

Investigating the electrical double layer (EDL) structure has been a long-standing challenge and has seen the emergence of several sophisticated techniques able to probe selectively the few molecular layers of a solid/water interface. While a qualitative e ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2023

A discrepancy of 10(7) in experimental and theoretical density detection limits of aerosol particles by surface nonlinear light scattering

Sylvie Roke, Arianna Marchioro

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Size dependence of second-harmonic scattering from nanoparticles: Disentangling surface and electrostatic contributions

Sylvie Roke, Arianna Marchioro, Bingxin Chu

Polarimetric angle-resolved second-harmonic scattering (AR-SHS) is an all-optical tool enabling the study of unlabeled interfaces of nano-sized particles in an aqueous solution. As the second harmonic signal is modulated by interference between nonlinear c ...

AIP Publishing2023

Water Orientation at the Anatase TiO2 Nanoparticle Interface: A Probe of Surface pKa Values

Arianna Marchioro, Marie Bischoff

The acid-base properties of surfaces significantly influence catalytic and (photo)electrochemical processes. Estimation of acid dissociation constants (pKa values) for colloids is commonly performed through electroanalytical techniques or spectroscopic met ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Second Harmonic Scattering Reveals Ion-Specific Effects at the SiO2 and TiO2 Nanoparticle/Aqueous Interface

Arianna Marchioro, Marie Bischoff

Ion-specific effects play a crucial role in controlling the stability of colloidal systems and regulating interfacial processes. Although mechanistic pictures have been developed to explain the electrostatic structure of solid/water colloidal interfaces, i ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Surface Potential and Interfacial Water Order at the Amorphous TiO2 Nanoparticle/Aqueous Interface

Sylvie Roke, Arianna Marchioro, Marie Bischoff

Colloidal nanoparticles exhibit unique size-dependent properties differing from their bulk counterpart, which can be particularly relevant for catalytic applications. To optimize surface-mediated chemical reactions, the understanding of the microscopic str ...

2020

Mapping Electrochemical Heterogeneity at Gold Surfaces: A Second Harmonic Imaging Study

Sylvie Roke, Arianna Marchioro, Igor Nahálka

Designing efficient catalysts requires correlating surface structure and local chemical composition with reactivity on length scales from nanometers to tens of microns. While much work has been done on this structure/function correlation on single crystals ...

2020

Imaging the Heterogeneity of the Oxygen Evolution Reaction on Gold Electrodes Operando: Activity is Highly Local

Sylvie Roke, Arianna Marchioro, Igor Nahálka

Understanding the mechanism of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), the oxidative half of electrolytic water splitting, has proven challenging. Perhaps the largest hurdle has been gaining experimental insight into the active site of the electrocatalyst use ...

2020