Fluid-structure interaction in the developing heart is an active area of research in developmental biology. However, investigation of heart dynamics is mostly limited to computational fluid dynamics simulations using heart wall structure information only, or single plane blood flow information so there is a need for 3D + time resolved data to fully understand cardiac function. We present an ima...

The emission times of laser-triggered electrons from a sharp tungsten tip are directly characterized under ultrafast, near-infrared laser excitation at Keldysh parameters of 6.6<γ<19.1. Emission delays up to 10 fs are observed, which are inferred from the energy gain of photoelectrons emitted into a synchronously driven microwave cavity. Few femtosecond timing resolution is achieved in a config...

BACKGROUND Biomolecules or other complex macromolecules undergo conformational transitions upon exposure to an external perturbation such as ligand binding or mechanical force. To follow fluctuations in pairwise forces between atoms or residues during such conformational changes as observed in Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations, we developed Time-Resolved Force Distribution Analysis (TRFDA). ...

Spectra that are narrower than the natural width of decaying states can be achieved by beginning the observation of signals at a fixed delay time after excitation rather than immediately afterward. These signals are weaker (and noisier) than the full, time-unresolved signals. Applications of this line-narrowing technique to precision spectroscopy are discussed, and the properties of the resulti...

changes upon e.g. unfolding, substrate binding or Optical absorption of proteins in the region of 250other catalytical processes. Furthermore, single Trp 300 nm (near-UV) is governed by the aromatic mutants provide the possibility to examine protein amino acid residues phenylalanine (Phe), tyrosine dynamic at individual sites of the protein with time(Tyr) and tryptophan (Trp) [1]. Compared with...

Ultrafast pump-probe studies of I2- recombination in size-selected I2- (CO2)n cluster ions demonstrate long time coherent motions in size-selected clusters and the resulting non-statistical energy flow in the cluster. For I2- photodissociated to produce either I- + I or I- + I*, we identify a solvent-driven energy transfer process without a condensed phase counterpart. The mechanism involved is...

A new method based on the calculation of autocorrelation functions for spectra measured at a high acquisition rate is developed to study spectral dynamics of single molecules. The technique allows for spectroscopy with time resolutions down to the luminescence lifetime. The method is used to study spectral diffusion in two-photon excitation spectra of diphenyloctatetraene molecules doped in an ...