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 …

Sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy (SFG-VS) for complex molecular surfaces and interfaces: Spectral lineshape measurement and analysis plus …

HF Wang - Progress in Surface Science, 2016 - Elsevier
Sum-frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy (SFG-VS) was first developed in the
1980s and it has been proven a uniquely sensitive and surface/interface selective …

Development of single-channel heterodyne-detected sum frequency generation spectroscopy and its application to the water/vapor interface

S Yamaguchi - The Journal of chemical physics, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Single-channel heterodyne-detected sum frequency generation (HD-SFG) spectroscopy for
selectively measuring vibrational spectra of liquid interfaces is presented. This new …

Progress in phase-sensitive sum frequency generation spectroscopy

S Yamaguchi, T Otosu - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Sum frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy is a unique and powerful tool for
investigating surfaces and interfaces at the molecular level. Phase-sensitive SFG (PS-SFG) …

Extending the capabilities of heterodyne-detected sum-frequency generation spectroscopy: probing any interface in any polarization combination

H Vanselous, PB Petersen - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2016 - ACS Publications
Vibrational sum-frequency generation spectroscopy (SFG) is a powerful tool for studying
noncentrosymmetric environments, particularly interfaces. Conventional homodyne-detected …

Weakly hydrogen-bonded water inside charged lipid monolayer observed with heterodyne-detected vibrational sum frequency generation spectroscopy

Y Nojima, Y Suzuki, S Yamaguchi - The Journal of Physical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Many biological processes such as photosynthesis and signal transduction proceed at
lipid/water interfaces. Although water molecules inside lipid membranes are considered to …

Biomolecular structure at solid–liquid interfaces as revealed by nonlinear optical spectroscopy

S Roy, PA Covert, WR FitzGerald, DK Hore - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
1. INTRODUCTION The attachment of biomolecules onto solid surfaces is fundamental to a
wide range of scientific, engineering, and industrial pursuits. 1, 2 For example, the …

Self-phase-stabilized heterodyne vibrational sum frequency generation microscopy

H Wang, T Gao, W **ong - Acs Photonics, 2017 - ACS Publications
Vibrational sum frequency generation (VSFG) spectroscopy has been a powerful technique
to probe molecular structures in non-centrosymmetric media. Recently developed …

α-quartz crystal as absolute intensity and phase standard in sum-frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy

XH Hu, F Wei, H Wang, HF Wang - The Journal of Physical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Quartz crystal has been used as intensity and phase reference standard in sum-frequency
generation (SFG) and other nonlinear spectroscopy measurements. In this report, we …

Accurate Line Shapes from Sub-1 cm–1 Resolution Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy of α-Pinene at Room Temperature

AL Mifflin, L Velarde, J Ho, BT Psciuk… - The Journal of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Despite the importance of terpenes in biology, the environment, and catalysis, their
vibrational spectra remain unassigned. Here, we present subwavenumber high-resolution …