Interest in nanomaterials and especially nanoparticles has exploded in the past decades
primarily due to their novel or enhanced physical and chemical properties compared to bulk …

Medicinal plants have recently gained importance due to the increasing acceptance of
herbal healthcare practices as they serve a plethora of pharmacological effects owing to the …

β-Sheets are a commonly found structural motif in self-assembling aromatic peptide
amphiphiles, and their characteristic “amide I” infrared (IR) absorption bands are routinely …

Macromolecules are characterized by their particular arrangement of H bonds. Many of
these interactions involve a single donor and acceptor pair, such as the regular H-bonding …

The electric field created by a condensed-phase environment is a powerful and convenient
descriptor for intermolecular interactions. Not only does it provide a unifying language to …

Vibrational and electronic transition dipole strengths are often good probes of molecular
structures, especially in excitonically coupled systems of chromophores. One cannot …

Isotope labeling is a powerful technique to probe detailed structures of biological molecules
with a variety of analytical methods such as NMR and vibrational spectroscopies. It is …

Surface-bound polypeptides and proteins are increasingly used to functionalize inorganic
interfaces such as electrodes, but their structural characterization is exceedingly difficult with …

γD-Crystallin is an abundant structural protein of the lens that is found in native and modified
forms in cataractous aggregates. We establish that UV–B irradiation of γD-Crystallin leads to …

Infrared (IR) spectroscopy has been shown to be very reliable for the characterization,
identification and quantification of structural data. Particularly, the Attenuated Total …