05.04.2013 | Tie Xia; Nan Li; Xiaohong Fang, Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2013

The transition of single-molecule fluorescence detection and imaging from in vitro to living cells has greatly enriched our knowledge on the behavior of single biomolecules in their native environments and their roles in cellular processes. Here we review recent advances of single-molecule ...

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05.04.2013 | Abraham K. Badu-Tawiah; Livia S. Eberlin; Zheng Ouyang; R. Graham Cooks, Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2013

Ambient ionization techniques allow complex chemical samples to be analyzed in their native state with minimal sample preparation. This brings the obvious advantages of simplicity, speed, and versatility to mass spectrometry: Desorption electrospray ionization (DESI), for example, is used in ...

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05.04.2013 | Shaul Mukamel; Daniel Healion; Yu Zhang; Jason D. Biggs, Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2013

New free-electron laser and high-harmonic generation X-ray light sources are capable of supplying pulses short and intense enough to perform resonant nonlinear time-resolved experiments in molecules. Valence-electron motions can be triggered impulsively by core excitations and monitored with ...

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05.04.2013 | Clement E. Blanchet; Dmitri I. Svergun, Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2013

Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) is a powerful method to study the structural properties of materials at the nanoscale. Recent progress in instrumentation and analysis methods has led to rapidly growing applications of this technique for the characterization of biological macromolecules in ...

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05.04.2013 | Takuma Yagasaki; Shinji Saito, Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2013

Many efforts have been devoted to elucidating the intra- and intermolecular dynamics of liquid water because of their important roles in many fields of science and engineering. Nonlinear spectroscopy is a powerful tool to investigate the dynamics. Because nonlinear response functions are ...

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05.04.2013 | Anton Barty; Jochen Küpper; Henry N. Chapman, Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2013

The opening of hard X-ray free-electron laser facilities, such as the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the United States, has ushered in a new era in structural determination. With X-ray pulse durations down to 10 fs or shorter, and up to 1013 ...

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05.04.2013 | Douglas J. Tobias; Abraham C. Stern; Marcel D. Baer; Yan Levin; Christopher J. Mundy, Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2013

Chemistry occurring at or near the surface of aqueous droplets and thin films in the atmosphere influences air quality and climate. Molecular dynamics simulations are becoming increasingly useful for gaining atomic-scale insight into the structure and reactivity of aqueous interfaces in the ...

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05.04.2013 | W. Carl Lineberger, Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2013

This contribution is very much a personal history of a journey through the wonderful world of anion chemistry, and a tale of how advances in laser technologies, theoretical methods, and computational capabilities continuously enabled advances in our understanding. It is a story of the ...

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05.04.2013 | Shaowei Chen; Zhenhuan Zhao; Hong Liu, Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2013

This review focuses on the impacts of metal-organic interfacial bonding interactions on the charge-transport dynamics involved in molecular junctions as well as organically capped nanoparticles. Whereas mercapto derivatives have been used extensively as the ligands of choice to functionalize ...

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05.04.2013 | Bernd Abel, Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2013

Charged particles such as hydrated ions and transient hydrated electrons, the simplest anionic reducing agents in water, and the special hydronium and hydroxide ions at water interfaces play an important role in many fields of science, such as atmospheric chemistry, radiation chemistry, and ...

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