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It is critical to determine conformations of molecular monolayers in order to understand and control their functions and properties, such as efficiencies of self-assembly-based biosensors and turnover frequency of surface-bound electrocatalysts. However, surface molecules of the monolayers can adopt conformations with many different orientations. Thus, it is necessary to describe the orientations of surface molecular monolayers using both mean tilt angle and orientational distribution, which together we refer to as orientation heterogeneity. Orientation heterogeneity is difficult to measure. In most cases, in order to calculate the mean tilt angle, it is assumed that the orientational distribution is narrow. This assumption causes ambiguities in determining the mean tilt angle and loss of orientational distribution information, which is known as the “magic angle” challenge. Using heterodyne two-dimensional vibrational sum frequency generation (HD 2D VSFG) spectroscopy, we report a novel method to solve th...

Solving the “Magic Angle” Challenge in Determining Molecular Orientation Heterogeneity at Interfaces