Electric Interactions and Structural Dynamics of Hydrated Biomolecules Mapped by Ultrafast Vibrational Probes

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Peer reviewed articles (11)

Terahertz Polaron Oscillations of Electrons Solvated in Liquid Water

Author(s): Ahmed Ghalgaoui, Benjamin P. Fingerhut, Klaus Reimann, Thomas Elsaesser, Michael Woerner
Published in: Physical Review Letters, 126/9, 2021, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.126.097401

Field-Induced Electron Generation in Water: Solvation Dynamics and Many-Body Interactions

Author(s): M. Woerner, B. P. Fingerhut, T. Elsaesser
Published in: J. Phys. Chem. B, 126, 2022, Page(s) 2621–2634, ISSN 1520-6106
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c01102

Magnesium Contact Ions Stabilize the Tertiary Structure of Transfer RNA: Electrostatics Mapped by Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectra and Theoretical Simulations

Author(s): Jakob Schauss, Achintya Kundu, Benjamin P. Fingerhut, Thomas Elsaesser
Published in: The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 125/3, 2021, Page(s) 740-747, ISSN 1520-6106
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c08966

Contact Ion Pairs of Phosphate Groups in Water: Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy of Dimethyl Phosphate and ab Initio Simulations

Author(s): Jakob Schauss, Achintya Kundu, Benjamin P. Fingerhut, Thomas Elsaesser
Published in: The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 10/20, 2019, Page(s) 6281-6286, ISSN 1948-7185
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b02157

Two-dimensional terahertz spectroscopy of condensed-phase molecular systems

Author(s): Klaus Reimann, Michael Woerner, Thomas Elsaesser
Published in: The Journal of Chemical Physics, 154/12, 2021, Page(s) 120901, ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0046664

Change of Hydration Patterns upon RNA Melting Probed by Excitations of Phosphate Backbone Vibrations

Author(s): Achintya Kundu, Jakob Schauss, Benjamin P. Fingerhut, Thomas Elsaesser
Published in: J. Phys. Chem. B, 2020, ISSN 1520-6106
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c01474

Field-Induced Tunneling Ionization and Terahertz-Driven Electron Dynamics in Liquid Water

Author(s): Ahmed Ghalgaoui, Lisa-Marie Koll, Bernd Schütte, Benjamin P. Fingerhut, Klaus Reimann, Michael Woerner, Thomas Elsaesser
Published in: The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 11/18, 2020, Page(s) 7717-7722, ISSN 1948-7185
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c02312

Spatial distribution of electric-field enhancement across the gap of terahertz bow-tie antennas

Author(s): Matthias Runge, Dieter Engel, Michael Schneider, Klaus Reimann, Michael Woerner, Thomas Elsaesser
Published in: Optics Express, 28/17, 2020, Page(s) 24389, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.399462

Phosphate Vibrations Probe Electric Fields in Hydrated Biomolecules: Spectroscopy, Dynamics, and Interactions

Author(s): Thomas Elsaesser, Jakob Schauss, Achintya Kundu, Benjamin P. Fingerhut
Published in: The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2021, ISSN 1520-6106
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c01502

Contact pairs of RNA with magnesium ions-electrostatics beyond the Poisson-Boltzmann equation.

Author(s): Benjamin P. Fingerhut; Jakob Schauss; Achintya Kundu; Thomas Elsaesser
Published in: Biophysical Journal, 120, 2021, Page(s) 5322-5332, ISSN 1542-0086
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2021.10.029

Aqueous Contact Ion Pairs of Phosphate Groups with Na+, Ca2+ and Mg2+ – Structural Discrimination by Femtosecond Infrared Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Author(s): Benjamin P. Fingerhut, Jakob Schauss, Achintya Kundu, Thomas Elsaesser
Published in: Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, 234/7-9, 2020, Page(s) 1453-1474, ISSN 0942-9352
Publisher: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag GmbH
DOI: 10.1515/zpch-2020-1614