Vibrational spectroscopic map, vibrational spectroscopy, and intermolecular interaction

CR Baiz, B Błasiak, J Bredenbeck, M Cho… - Chemical …, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
Vibrational spectroscopy is an essential tool in chemical analyses, biological assays, and
studies of functional materials. Over the past decade, various coherent nonlinear vibrational …

Water dynamics in the hydration shells of biomolecules

D Laage, T Elsaesser, JT Hynes - Chemical Reviews, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
The structure and function of biomolecules are strongly influenced by their hydration shells.
Structural fluctuations and molecular excitations of hydrating water molecules cover a broad …

Strong electric field observed at the interface of aqueous microdroplets

H **ong, JK Lee, RN Zare, W Min - The journal of physical …, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
Chemical reactions in aqueous microdroplets often exhibit unusual kinetic and
thermodynamic properties not observed in bulk solution. While an electric field has been …

[HTML][HTML] How cations affect the electric double layer and the rates and selectivity of electrocatalytic processes

MM Waegele, CM Gunathunge, J Li, X Li - The Journal of chemical …, 2019‏ - pubs.aip.org
Electrocatalysis is central to the production of renewable fuels and high-value commodity
chemicals. The electrolyte and the electrode together determine the catalytic properties of …

[PDF][PDF] Iodine migration and its effect on hysteresis in perovskite solar cells

C Li, S Tscheuschner, F Paulus, PE Hopkinson… - Advanced …, 2016‏ - academia.edu
DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201503832 while the ferroelectric domain polarization/depolarization
process is much faster, in the picosecond range.[23, 24] In addition, piezoresponse force …

Measuring electric fields and noncovalent interactions using the vibrational stark effect

SD Fried, SG Boxer - Accounts of chemical research, 2015‏ - ACS Publications
Conspectus Over the past decade, we have developed a spectroscopic approach to
measure electric fields inside matter with high spatial (< 1 Å) and field (< 1 MV/cm) …

Decoding chemical information from vibrational spectroscopy data: Local vibrational mode theory

E Kraka, W Zou, Y Tao - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Modern vibrational spectroscopy is more than just an analytical tool. Information about the
electronic structure of a molecule, the strength of its bonds, and its conformational flexibility …

Extreme electric fields power catalysis in the active site of ketosteroid isomerase

SD Fried, S Bagchi, SG Boxer - Science, 2014‏ - science.org
Enzymes use protein architecture to impose specific electrostatic fields onto their bound
substrates, but the magnitude and catalytic effect of these electric fields have proven difficult …

Excited-state proton coupled charge transfer modulated by molecular structure and media polarization

AP Demchenko, KC Tang, PT Chou - Chemical Society Reviews, 2013‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Charge and proton transfer reactions in the excited states of organic dyes can be coupled in
many different ways. Despite the complementarity of charges, they can occur on different …

A two-directional vibrational probe reveals different electric field orientations in solution and an enzyme active site

C Zheng, Y Mao, J Kozuch, AO Atsango, Z Ji… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
The catalytic power of an electric field depends on its magnitude and orientation with respect
to the reactive chemical species. Understanding and designing new catalysts for …