Coherent multidimensional vibrational spectroscopy of biomolecules: Concepts, simulations, and challenges

W Zhuang, T Hayashi… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Good vibrations: The vibrational response of complex molecules to sequences of infrared
pulses provides novel femtosecond snapshots of their structure and dynamics. This …

Ultrafast dynamics at lipid–water interfaces

JC Flanagan, ML Valentine… - Accounts of chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Lipid membranes are more than just barriers between cell compartments; they
provide molecular environments with a finely tuned balance between hydrophilic and …

Three distinct water structures at a zwitterionic lipid/water interface revealed by heterodyne-detected vibrational sum frequency generation

JA Mondal, S Nihonyanagi, S Yamaguchi… - Journal of the …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Lipid/water interfaces and associated interfacial water are vital for various biochemical
reactions, but the molecular-level understanding of their property is very limited. We …

Dielectric relaxation dynamics of water in model membranes probed by terahertz spectroscopy

KJ Tielrooij, D Paparo, L Piatkowski, HJ Bakker… - Biophysical journal, 2009 - cell.com
We study hydrated model membranes, consisting of stacked bilayers of 1, 2-dioleoyl-sn-
glycero-3-phosphocholine lipids, using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy and infrared …

[LIVRE][B] Ultrafast infrared vibrational spectroscopy

MD Fayer - 2013 - books.google.com
The advent of laser-based sources of ultrafast infrared pulses has extended the study of very
fast molecular dynamics to the observation of processes manifested through their effects on …

Vibrational sum-frequency generation spectroscopy at the water/lipid interface: molecular dynamics simulation study

Y Nagata, S Mukamel - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2010 - ACS Publications
The sum-frequency generation (SFG) spectrum from the water/[1, 2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-
phosphatidylcholine](DMPC) interface in the OH stretching mode region of water is …

Water at the surfaces of aligned phospholipid multibilayer model membranes probed with ultrafast vibrational spectroscopy

W Zhao, DE Moilanen, EE Fenn… - Journal of the American …, 2008 - ACS Publications
The dynamics of water at the surface of artificial membranes composed of aligned
multibilayers of the phospholipid dilauroyl phosphatidylcholine (DLPC) are probed with …

[HTML][HTML] Computer modelling studies of the bilayer/water interface

M Pasenkiewicz-Gierula, K Baczynski… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2016 - Elsevier
This review summarises high resolution studies on the interface of lamellar lipid bilayers
composed of the most typical lipid molecules which constitute the lipid matrix of …

[HTML][HTML] Theoretical vibrational sum-frequency generation spectroscopy of water near lipid and surfactant monolayer interfaces

S Roy, SM Gruenbaum, JL Skinner - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Understanding the structure of water near cell membranes is crucial for characterizing water-
mediated events such as molecular transport. To obtain structural information of water near …

Mosaic of water orientation structures at a neutral zwitterionic lipid/water interface revealed by molecular dynamics simulations

S Re, W Nishima, T Tahara… - The journal of physical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Ordering of water structures near the surface of biological membranes has been recently
extensively studied using interface-selective techniques like vibrational sum frequency …