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 …

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 …

Surface stratification determines the interfacial water structure of simple electrolyte solutions

Y Litman, KY Chiang, T Seki, Y Nagata, M Bonn - Nature Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
The distribution of ions at the air/water interface plays a decisive role in many natural
processes. Several studies have reported that larger ions tend to be surface-active, implying …

Nature of cations critically affects water at the negatively charged silica interface

J Hunger, J Schaefer, P Ober, T Seki… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Understanding the collective behavior of ions at charged surfaces is of paramount
importance for geological and electrochemical processes. Ions screen the surface charge …

Molecular hydrophobicity at a macroscopically hydrophilic surface

JD Cyran, MA Donovan, D Vollmer… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Interfaces between water and silicates are ubiquitous and relevant for, among others,
geochemistry, atmospheric chemistry, and chromatography. The molecular-level details of …

Phase-referenced nonlinear spectroscopy of the α-quartz/water interface

PE Ohno, SA Saslow, H Wang, FM Geiger… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Probing the polarization of water molecules at charged interfaces by second harmonic
generation spectroscopy has been heretofore limited to isotropic materials. Here we report …

Surface-sensitive and surface-specific ultrafast two-dimensional vibrational spectroscopy

JP Kraack, P Hamm - Chemical Reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Ultrafast two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy (2D IR) has been advanced in recent years
toward measuring signals from only a monolayer of sample molecules at solid–liquid and …

The topmost water structure at a charged silica/aqueous interface revealed by heterodyne-detected vibrational sum frequency generation spectroscopy

S Urashima, A Myalitsin, S Nihonyanagi… - The Journal of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Despite recent significant advances in interface-selective nonlinear spectroscopy, the
topmost water structure at a charged silica surface is still not clearly understood. This is …

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 …

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) …