Cellular effects of terahertz waves

OP Cherkasova, DS Serdyukov… - Journal of …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Significance: An increasing interest in the area of biological effects at exposure of tissues
and cells to the terahertz (THz) radiation is driven by a rapid progress in THz biophotonics …

The 2017 terahertz science and technology roadmap

SS Dhillon, MS Vitiello, EH Linfield… - Journal of Physics D …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Science and technologies based on terahertz frequency electromagnetic radiation (100 GHz–
30 THz) have developed rapidly over the last 30 years. For most of the 20th Century …

Progress on cutting-edge infrared-terahertz biophysics

P Wang, J Lou, G Fang, C Chang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Infrared-terahertz (IRT) resonant absorption complies with unique biomolecule fingerprints,
including neurotransmitters, proteins, ribonucleic acid, and deoxyribonucleic acid, rendering …

Organohydrogel-based transparent terahertz absorber via ionic conduction loss

W **e, Q Tang, J **e, Y Fei, H Wan, T Zhao… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The fast-growing terahertz technologies require high-performance terahertz absorber for
suppressing electromagnetic interference. Since the dissipation mechanism in terahertz …

Water Dynamics from THz Spectroscopy Reveal the Locus of a Liquid–Liquid Binodal Limit in Aqueous CaCO3 Solutions

F Sebastiani, SLP Wolf, B Born… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Many phenomena depend on CaCO3 nucleation where the role of water remains enigmatic.
Changes in THz absorption during the early stages of CaCO3 nucleation evidence altered …

Dynamic water promotes lithium-ion transport in superconcentrated and eutectic aqueous electrolytes

J Kim, B Koo, J Lim, J Jeon, C Lim, H Lee… - ACS Energy …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Superconcentrated aqueous electrolytes have shown promise as safe and high-voltage
lithium-ion battery (LIB) electrolytes. However, the interplay of lithium-ion solvation structure …

Protein and RNA dynamical fingerprinting

KA Niessen, M Xu, DK George, MC Chen… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Protein structural vibrations impact biology by steering the structure to functional
intermediate states; enhancing tunneling events; and optimizing energy transfer. Strong …

Molecular polarizability anisotropy of liquid water revealed by terahertz-induced transient orientation

P Zalden, L Song, X Wu, H Huang, F Ahr… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Reaction pathways of biochemical processes are influenced by the dissipative electrostatic
interaction of the reagents with solvent water molecules. The simulation of these interactions …

Electromagnetic-radiation absorption by water

P Lunkenheimer, S Emmert, R Gulich, M Köhler, M Wolf… - Physical Review E, 2017 - APS
Why does a microwave oven work? How does biological tissue absorb electromagnetic
radiation? Astonishingly, we do not have a definite answer to these simple questions …

The hydrogen-bond network of water supports propagating optical phonon-like modes

DC Elton, M Fernández-Serra - Nature communications, 2016 - nature.com
The local structure of liquid water as a function of temperature is a source of intense
research. This structure is intimately linked to the dynamics of water molecules, which can …