Research Summary

Selected Publications

• 1. Kusaka, R., Nihonyanagi, S., and Tahara, T.:
  "The photochemical reaction of phenol becomes ultrafast at the air–water interface"
  Nat. Chem., 13, 306-311. (2021).
• 2. Ahmed, M., Inoue, K., Nihonyanagi, S., and 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).
• 3. Kuramochi, H., Aoyama, G., Okajima, H., Sakamoto, A., Kanegawa, S., Sato, O., Takeuchi, S., and Tahara, T.:
  "Femtosecond polarization switching in the crystal of a [CrCo] dinuclear complex"
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 59, 15865-15869. (2020).
• 4. Inoue, K., Ahmed, M., Nihonyanagi, S., and 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).
• 5. Iwamura, M., Fukui, A., Nozaki, N., Kuramochi, H., Takeuchi, S.,and 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).
• 6. Kuramochi, H., Takeuchi, S., Iwamura, M., Nozaki, K., and Tahara, T.:
  "Tracking photoinduced Au–Au bond formation through transient terahertz vibrations observed by femtosecond time-domain Raman spectroscopy"
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141, 19296-19303. (2019).
• 7. Kuramochi, H., Takeuchi, S., Kamikubo, H., Kataoka, M., and Tahara, T.:
  "Fifth-order time-domain Raman spectroscopy of photoactive yellow protein for visualizing vibrational coupling in its excited state"
  Sci. Adv., 5, 6, eaau4490. (2019)
• 8. Tahara, S., Kuramochi, H., Takeuchi, S., and 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).
• 9. Kuramochi, H., Takeuchi, S., Yonezawa, S., Kamikubo, K., Kataoka, H., and Tahara, T.:
  "Probing the early stages of photoreception in photoactive yellow protein with ultrafast time-domain Raman spectroscopy"
  Nat. Chem., 9, 660. (2017).
• 10. Singh, P.C., Nihonyanagi, S. Yamaguchi, S., and Tahara T.:
  "Femtosecond hydrogen-bond dynamics of bulk-like and bound water at positively and negatively charged lipid interfaces revealed by 2D HD-VSFG spectroscopy"
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 55, 10621. (2016).

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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