We have applied 57Fe nuclear resonance vibrational spectroscopy (NRVS) for the first time to study the dynamics of Fe centers in Fe-S protein crystals, including oxidized wild type rubredoxin crystals from Pyrococcus furiosus, and the MoFe protein of nitrogenase from Azotobacter vinelandii. Thanks to the NRVS selection rule, selectively probed vibrational modes have been observed in both orient...

Hydrogen can be inadvertently introduced at any of several steps in the fabrication of optoelectronic devices. The most common consequence of hydrogenation is the passivation of dopant impurities, which leads to a decrease in the electrical conductivity of the material. The most successfully applied experimental technique for directly determining the involvement of hydrogen has been infrared-ab...

The present article reviews the results on the application of vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) spectroscopy to the study of stereochemical properties of chiral metal complexes in solution. The chiral characters reflecting on the vibrational properties of metal complexes are revealed by measurements of a series of β-diketonato complexes with the help of theoretical calculation. Attention is ...

Center line slope (CLS) analysis in 2D infrared spectroscopy has been extensively used to extract frequency-frequency correlation functions of vibrational transitions. We apply this concept to 2D electronic spectroscopy, where CLS is a measure of electronic gap fluctuations. The two domains, infrared and electronic, possess differences: In the infrared, the frequency fluctuations are classical,...

Vibrational spectroscopy in the electron microscope would be transformative in the study of biological samples, provided that radiation damage could be prevented. However, electron beams typically create high-energy excitations that severely accelerate sample degradation. Here this major difficulty is overcome using an 'aloof' electron beam, positioned tens of nanometres away from the sample: h...

We use a 6.8-fs laser as the light source for broad-band femtosecond pump-probe real-time vibrational spectroscopy to investigate both electronic relaxation and vibrational dynamics of the Q(y)-band of Chl-a at 293 K. More than 25 vibrational modes coupled to the Q(y) transition are observed. Eleven of them have been clarified predominantly due to the excited state, and six of them are conclude...

We have measured the temperature dependence of the far-infrared vibrational modes of polycrystalline saccharide molecules in the frequency range 0.1–3.0 THz using a time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy system. Coherent measurement of the transmitted terahertz electric fields showed distinct absorption features, in both monosaccharides and disaccharides, originating from interand intra-molecular...

The dynamics of the hydrogen bond network of isotopically substituted liquid water are investigated with a new ultrafast nonlinear vibrational spectroscopy, three-dimensional infrared spectroscopy (3D-IR). The 3D-IR spectroscopy is sensitive to three-point frequency fluctuation correlation functions, and the measurements reveal heterogeneous structural relaxation dynamics. We interpret these re...

1 – Pein, B. C., “Vibrational Energy Flow in Substituted Benzenes”, Ph.D. Thesis submitted to the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign (2014), Advisor: Prof. Dana Dlott 2 Iwaki, L. K., Dlott, D. D., “Three-dimensional spectroscopy of vibrational energy relaxation in liquid methanol”, Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2000), 104, 9101. 3 Graener, H., Zürl, R., Hofmann, M., “Vibrational relax...

We have investigated the terahertz (THz) spectrum of 2,4-DNT by using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy in the 0.2–19.5 THz region. We also examined low-frequency intermolecular or phonon modes between 0.2 and 1.8 THz via THz time-domain spectroscopy. The extracted absorption coefficient and refractive index of an intermolecular band at 1.08 THz are 110 cm 1 and 1.67, respectively. Densit...