Research Summary

Selected Publications

• 1.Kuramochi, H., Tsutsumi, T., Saita, K., Wei, Z., Osawa, M., Kumar, P., Liu, L., Takeuchi, S., Taketsugu, T., Tahara, T.:
  "Ultrafast Raman observation of the perpendicular intermediate phantom state of stilbene photoisomerization"
  Nat. Chem. 16, 22-27 (2024).
• 2.Sung, W., Inoue, K., Nihonyanagi, S., Tahara. T.:
  "Unified picture of vibrational relaxation of OH stretch at the air/water interface"
  Nat. Commun. 15, 1258/1-11 (2024).
• 3.Kumar, P., Kuramochi, H., Takeuchi, S., Tahara, T.:
  "Photoexcited plasmon-driven ultrafast dynamics of the adsorbate probed by femtosecond time-resolved surface-enhanced time-domain Raman spectroscopy"
  J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 14, 2845-2853 (2023).
• 4.Chang, C., Kuramochi, H., Singh, M., Abe-Yoshizumi, R., Tsukuda, T., Kandori, H., Tahara, T.:
  “A unified view on varied ultrafast dynamics of the primary process in microbial rhodopsins”
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 61, e202111930/1-9 (2022).
• 5.Kusaka, R., Nihonyanagi, S., Tahara, T.:
  "The photochemical reaction of phenol becomes ultrafast at the air-water interface"
  Nat. Chem. 13, 306-311 (2021).
• 6.Ahmed, M., Inoue, K., Nihonyanagi, S., Tahara, T.:
  "Hidden isolated OH at the charged hydrophobic interface revealed by two-dimensional heterodyne-detected VSFG spectroscopy"
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 59, 9498-9505 (2020).
• 7.Inoue, K., Ahmed, M., Nihonyanagi, S., Tahara, T.:
  "Reorientation-induced relaxation of free OH at the air/water interface revealed by ultrafast heterodyne-detected nonlinear spectroscopy"
  Nat. Commun. 11, 5344/1-7 (2020).
• 8.Iwamura, M., Fukui, A., Nozaki, K., Kuramochi, H., Takeuchi, S., Tahara, T.:
  "Coherent vibration and femtosecond dynamics of the platinum complex oligomers upon intermolecular bond formation in the excited state"
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 59, 23154-23161 (2020).
• 9.Kuramochi, H., Takeuchi, S., Kamikubo, H., Kataoka, M., Tahara, T.:
  "Fifth-order time-domain Raman spectroscopy of photoactive yellow protein for visualizing vibrational coupling in its excited state"
  Sci. Adv. 5, eaau4490/1-7 (2019).
• 10.Tahara, S., Kuramochi, H., Takeuchi, S., Tahara, T.:
  "Protein dynamics preceding photoisomerization of the retinal chromophore in bacteriorhodopsin revealed by deep-UV femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy"
  J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 10, 5422-5427 (2019).

Recent Research Results

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  Jun. 21, 2024
  How molecules at the surface of water relax

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  Nov. 29, 2019
  Protein changes precede photoisomerization of retinal chromophore

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