Capturing inhomogeneous broadening of the –CN stretch vibration in a Langmuir monolayer with high-resolution spectra and ultrafast vibrational dynamics in sum-frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy (SFG-VS)

2013 ◽  
Vol 139 (8) ◽  
pp. 084204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Velarde ◽  
Hong-fei Wang
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaohua Hu ◽  
Li Fu ◽  
jian hou ◽  
yuening zhang ◽  
Zhen Zhang ◽  
...  

Recent chiral sum-frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy (cSFG-VS) measurements revealed that the two N-H stretching modes in the 3000-3500 cm-1 range in folded protein and peptide exhibit chiral characteristics. Here we report the first phase-resolved sub-wavenumber high-resolution broadband SFG-VS (HR-BB-SFG-VS) measurement of the LK7β peptide. The results show that this chiral N-H band consists of four, instead of two, distinctive peaks, and they are with two groups of opposite spectral phases. Moreover, the phases of these N-H peaks completely flip from the L-LK7β to the D-LK7β peptide, suggesting that the chirality of the N-H in the folded LK7β peptide is completely governed by the chirality of the Cα–H of the amino acids. This discovery provides clue on why proteins in nature are composed of α-amino acids rather than β- or γ-amino acids, and may help us understand the question on the origin of life.


2019 ◽  
Vol 150 (7) ◽  
pp. 074702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruidan Zhang ◽  
Xingxing Peng ◽  
Zhirun Jiao ◽  
Ting Luo ◽  
Chuanyao Zhou ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaohua Hu ◽  
Li Fu ◽  
jian hou ◽  
yuening zhang ◽  
Zhen Zhang ◽  
...  

Recent chiral sum-frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy (cSFG-VS) measurements revealed that the two N-H stretching modes in the 3000-3500 cm-1 range in folded protein and peptide exhibit chiral characteristics. Here we report the first phase-resolved sub-wavenumber high-resolution broadband SFG-VS (HR-BB-SFG-VS) measurement of the LK7β peptide. The results show that this chiral N-H band consists of four, instead of two, distinctive peaks, and they are with two groups of opposite spectral phases. Moreover, the phases of these N-H peaks completely flip from the L-LK7β to the D-LK7β peptide, suggesting that the chirality of the N-H in the folded LK7β peptide is completely governed by the chirality of the Cα–H of the amino acids. This discovery provides clue on why proteins in nature are composed of α-amino acids rather than β- or γ-amino acids, and may help us understand the question on the origin of life.


2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (32) ◽  
pp. 20752-20755
Author(s):  
Yang Wang ◽  
Xiangyun Ma ◽  
Huijie Wang ◽  
Da Chen ◽  
Keng C. Chou ◽  
...  

Our reported II-SFG method can obtain high-resolution SFG vibrational spectra with a single femtosecond laser system.


Nano Letters ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
James M. Krier ◽  
William D. Michalak ◽  
Xiaojun Cai ◽  
Lindsay Carl ◽  
Kyriakos Komvopoulos ◽  
...  

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