Vibrational spectroscopy is one of the most important experimental techniques for the
characterization of molecules and materials. Spectroscopic signatures retrieved in …

Single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) functionalized with (bio-) polymers such as DNA
are soluble in water and sense analytes by analyte-specific changes of their intrinsic …

Hydration free energies are dictated by a subtle balance of hydrophobic and hydrophilic
interactions. We present here a spectroscopic approach, which gives direct access to the …

Hydrophobicity/hydrophilicity of aqueous interfaces at the molecular level results from a
subtle balance in the water–water and water–surface interactions. This is characterized here …

Aqueous glycine plays many different roles in living systems, from being a building block for
proteins to being a neurotransmitter. To better understand its fundamental behavior, we …

Although it is well-known that limited local mutations of enzymes, such as matrix
metalloproteinases (MMPs), may change enzyme activity by orders of magnitude as well as …

Cholesterol is known to modify the phase behavior of model lipid membranes as it makes
phospholipid bilayers more structured. Simulation results have shown that the addition of …

Electrostatic interactions are central to the structure and function of nucleic acids, including
their folding, condensation, and interaction with proteins and other charged molecules …

While bright terahertz sources are used to perform nonlinear experiments, they can be
advantageous for high-precision linear measurements of opaque samples. By placing the …

Photo-induced excited-state proton transfer (ESPT) reactions are of central importance in
many biological and chemical processes. Identifying mechanistic details of the solvent …