Erwin Portuondo Campa

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This thesis presents a comparative study of the ultrafast solvation dynamics of liquids in bulk conditions, and at the interfaces of metal-IV oxides (specifically TiO2 and ZrO2), using ultrafast spectroscopy techniques. In the first part of the thesis we r ...

We present a systematic study of the time-integrated fluorescence of native bacteriorhodopsin, as a function of excitation wavelength across the visible absorption band. While the fluorescence max. is unaffected, the spectrum broadens on the high-energy si ...

A comparative study of absorption spectroscopy at 100 K has been performed on three-dimensional crystals of bacteriorhodopsin extd. from a lipidic cubic phase and on native purple membrane. A modified microspectrophotometer has been designed which yields a ...

Ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy of wild-type bacteriorhodopsin (WT bR) and 2 tryptophan mutants (W86F and W182F) is performed with visible light excitation (pump) and UV probe. The aim is to investigate the photoinduced change in the charge dis ...

Broadband transient absorption (TA) spectroscopy, three-pulse photon echo peak shift (3PEPS), and anisotropy decay measurements were used to study the solvation dynamics in bulk water and interfacial water at ZrO2 surfaces, using Eosin Y as a probe. The 3P ...

In 2-color optical Kerr effect measurements of water, addnl. signals can occur in the pulse overlap region if the energy difference between pump and probe pulses approaches the Raman resonance of the OH-stretch vibration. These features can be understood b ...

Time-resolved Optical Kerr Effect (OKE) measurements were used to det. the orientational dynamics of water and acetonitrile in the bulk and in pores of ZrO2 nanostructured films. The expts. were performed with a home-built OKE microscope, capable of provid ...

Mol. dynamics simulations at 298 K are used to study an aq. dissolved dye (eosin Y) adsorbed at the TiO2(1 1 0) surface to ext. static and dynamic information of solvation. Differences in the phys. behavior of the dye at the surface and in bulk H2O are com ...

The authors studied ultrafast relaxation of localized excited states at Ge-related O deficient centers in SiO2 using femtosecond transient-absorption spectroscopy. The relaxation dynamics exhibits a biexponential decay, which the authors ascribe to the dep ...

Time resolved optical Kerr effect measurements have been used to det. the orientational dynamics of water in the pores of ZrO2 nanostructured films. We demonstrate that local heating effects can safely be ignored and present our results which are manifestl ...

The authors present a detailed study of the nonresonant 3rd-order ultrafast response of TiO2 nanostructured films, combining a classical heterodyned optical Kerr effect expt., with 2 polarization selective Kerr techniques, based on transient lensing and ph ...

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Solvation dynamics at liquid/metal-IV oxide interfaces

On the excitation wavelength dependence of the fluorescence of bacteriorhodopsin

Absorption spectroscopy of three-dimensional bacteriorhodopsin crystals at cryogenic temperatures: effects of altered hydration

Functional electric field changes in photoactivated proteins revealed by ultrafast Stark spectroscopy of the Trp residues

Aqueous Solvation Dynamics at Metal Oxide Surfaces

Raman-induced signals in optical Kerr effect measurements of water with elliptically polarized pulses

Liquid dynamics in ZrO2 nanoporous films

Modelling of aqueous solvation of eosin Y at the rutile TiO2(110)/water interface

Relaxation processes of point defects in vitreous silica from femtosecond to nanoseconds

Optical Kerr effect studies of the dynamics of confined water

Ultrafast nonresonant response of TiO2 nanostructured films