Structure and dynamics of interfacial peptides and proteins from vibrational sum-frequency generation spectroscopy

S Hosseinpour, SJ Roeters, M Bonn, W Peukert… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Proteins at interfaces play important roles in cell biology, immunology, bioengineering, and
biomimetic material design. Many biological processes are based on interfacial protein …

Watching proteins wiggle: mapping structures with two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy

A Ghosh, JS Ostrander, MT Zanni - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Proteins exhibit structural fluctuations over decades of time scales. From the picosecond
side chain motions to aggregates that form over the course of minutes, characterizing protein …

The photochemical reaction of phenol becomes ultrafast at the air–water interface

R Kusaka, S Nihonyanagi, T Tahara - Nature Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
Reactions at the interface between water and other phases play important roles in nature
and in various chemical systems. Although some experimental and theoretical studies …

Second-order spectral lineshapes from charged interfaces

PE Ohno, H Wang, FM Geiger - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
Second-order nonlinear spectroscopy has proven to be a powerful tool in elucidating key
chemical and structural characteristics at a variety of interfaces. However, the presence of …

Molecular structure and modeling of water–air and ice–air interfaces monitored by sum-frequency generation

F Tang, T Ohto, S Sun, JR Rouxel, S Imoto… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
From a glass of water to glaciers in Antarctica, water–air and ice–air interfaces are abundant
on Earth. Molecular-level structure and dynamics at these interfaces are key for …

Structure and dynamics of interfacial water studied by heterodyne-detected vibrational sum-frequency generation

S Nihonyanagi, JA Mondal… - Annual review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Vibrational sum-frequency generation (VSFG) spectroscopy is a powerful tool to study
interfaces. Recently, multiplex heterodyne-detected VSFG (HD-VSFG) has been developed …

Ultrafast dynamics at water interfaces studied by vibrational sum frequency generation spectroscopy

S Nihonyanagi, S Yamaguchi, T Tahara - Chemical Reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
We present an overview of studies on the ultrafast dynamics of water at aqueous interfaces
carried out by time-resolved vibrational sum frequency generation (VSFG) spectroscopies …

Biological macromolecules at interfaces probed by chiral vibrational sum frequency generation spectroscopy

ECY Yan, L Fu, Z Wang, W Liu - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
1. INTRODUCTION A fundamental understanding of chiral biomacromolecules at aqueous
interfaces is critical to studying a host of important phenomena in modern biology, chemistry …

Molecular Structure and Dynamics of Water at the Water–Air Interface Studied with Surface‐Specific Vibrational Spectroscopy

M Bonn, Y Nagata, EHG Backus - … Chemie International Edition, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Water interfaces provide the platform for many important biological, chemical, and physical
processes. The water–air interface is the most common and simple aqueous interface and …

Recent progress on sum-frequency spectroscopy

CS Tian, YR Shen - Surface Science Reports, 2014 - Elsevier
Second harmonic generation (SHG) and sum frequency spectroscopy (SFS) have provided
unique opportunities to probe surfaces and interfaces. They have found broad applications …