Publications

Backus EHG, Tielrooij KJ, Bonn M, Bakker HJ. Probing ultrafast temperature changes of aqueous solutions with coherent terahertz pulses. Optics Letters. 2014 Apr 1;39(7):1717-1720. doi: 10.1364/OL.39.001717

Strazdaite S, Versluis J, Backus EHG, Bakker HJ. Enhanced ordering of water at hydrophobic surfaces. Journal of Chemical Physics. 2014 Feb 7;140(5):054711. doi: 10.1063/1.4863558

Hsieh CS, Kramer Campen R, Okuno M, Backus EHG, Nagata Y, Bonn M. Mechanism of vibrational energy dissipation of free OH groups at the air-water interface. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2013 Nov 19;110(47):18780-18785. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1314770110

Roeters SJ, Van Dijk CN, Torres-Knoop A, Backus EHG, Campen RK, Bonn M et al. Determining in situ protein conformation and orientation from the amide-I sum-frequency generation spectrum: Theory and experiment. Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 2013 Jul 25;117(29):6311-6322. doi: 10.1021/jp401159r

Nagata Y, Hsieh CS, Hasegawa T, Voll J, Backus EHG, Bonn M. Water bending mode at the water-vapor interface probed by sum-frequency generation spectroscopy: A combined molecular dynamics simulation and experimental study. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2013 Jun 6;4(11):1872-1877. doi: 10.1021/jz400683v

Zakerin M, Kappl M, Backus EHG, Butt HJ, Schönfeld F. Capillary forces between rigid spheres and elastic supports: The role of young's modulus and equilibrium vapor adsorption. Soft Matter. 2013 May 5;9(17):4534-4543. doi: 10.1039/c3sm27952a

Van Der Post ST, Tielrooij KJ, Hunger J, Backus EHG, Bakker HJ. Femtosecond study of the effects of ions and hydrophobes on the dynamics of water. Faraday Discussions. 2013;160:171-189. doi: 10.1039/c2fd20097j

Bonn M, Bakker HJ, Tong Y, Backus EHG. No ice-like water at aqueous biological interfaces. Biointerphases. 2012 Dec;7(1-4):1-5. 20. doi: 10.1007/s13758-012-0020-3

Nagata Y, Pool RE, Backus EHG, Bonn M. Nuclear quantum effects affect bond orientation of water at the water-vapor interface. Physical review letters. 2012 Nov 29;109(22):226101. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.226101

Backus EHG, Garcia-Araez N, Bonn M, Bakker HJ. On the role of fresnel factors in sum-frequency generation spectroscopy of metal-water and metal-oxide-water interfaces. Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2012 Nov 8;116(44):23351-23361. doi: 10.1021/jp306273d

Backus EHG, Abrakhi S, Péralta S, Teyssié D, Fichet O, Cantin S. Sum-frequency generation spectroscopy of cinnamate modified cellulosic polymer at the air-water interface. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2012 Mar 24;116(20):6041-6049. doi: 10.1021/jp301844b

Backus EHG, Bonn D, Cantin S, Roke S, Bonn M. Laser-heating-induced displacement of surfactants on the water surface. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2012 Mar 8;116(9):2703-2712. doi: 10.1021/jp2074545

Pool RE, Versluis J, Backus EHG, Bonn M. Comparative study of direct and phase-specific vibrational sum-frequency generation spectroscopy: Advantages and limitations. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2011 Dec 29;115(51):15362-15369. doi: 10.1021/jp2079023

Backus EHG, Kuiper JM, Engberts JBFN, Poolman B, Bonn M. Reversible optical control of monolayers on water through photoswitchable lipids. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2011 Mar 17;115(10):2294-2302. doi: 10.1021/jp1113619

Rzeźnicka II, Sovago M, Backus EHG, Bonn M, Yamada T, Kobayashi T et al. Duramycin-induced destabilization of a phosphatidylethanolamine monolayer at the air-water interface observed by vibrational sum-frequency generation spectroscopy. Langmuir. 2010 Oct 19;26(20):16055-16062. doi: 10.1021/la1028965

Backus EHG, Bloem R, Donaldson PM, Jhalainen JA, Pfister R, Paoli B et al. 2D-IR study of a photoswitchable isotope-labeled α-helix. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2010 Mar 18;114(10):3735-3740. doi: 10.1021/jp911849n

Backus EHG, Bonn M. Surface femtochemistry. In Rioux R, editor, Model Systems in Catalysis: Single Crystals to Supported Enzyme Mimics. Springer New York LLC. 2010. p. 203-221 doi: 10.1007/978-0-387-98049-2_10

Backus EHG, Bloem R, Poster R, Moretto A, Crisma M, Toniolo C et al. Dynamical transition in a small helical peptide and its implication for vibrational energy transport. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2009 Oct 8;113(40):13405-13409. doi: 10.1021/jp904905d

Paoli B, Seeber M, Backus EHG, Ihalainen JA, Hamm P, Caflisch A. Bulky side chains and non-native salt bridges slow down the folding of a cross-linked helical peptide: a combined molecular dynamics and time-resolved infrared spectroscopy study. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2009 Apr 2;113(13):4435-4442. doi: 10.1021/jp810431s

Backus EHG, Nguyen PH, Botan V, Pfister R, Moretto A, Crisma M et al. Energy transport in peptide helices around the glass transition. In Robert W. S, editor, ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA XVI. Vol. 92. Springer Nature. 2009. p. 532-534. (Springer Series in Chemical Physics). doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-95946-5_172

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