Water and Electrolytes Dynamics of Biomolecular Association Fluorescence-Encoded Infrared Spectroscopy Spectroscopy and Instrumentation Tokmakoff Group Department of Chemistry | The University of Chicago We investigate the molecular dynamics of water, aqueous solutions, and biomolecules by developing advanced new vibrational spectroscopy methods. Our Research Dynamics of Water and Electrolytes Dynamics of Biomolecular Recognition Fluorescence-Encoded Infrared Spectroscopy Spectroscopy and Instrumentation Recent Publications Kinetics and dynamics of oligonucleotide hybridization Molecular factors determining brightness in fluorescence-encoded infrared vibrational spectroscopy Strong H-bonding from Zeolite Bro̷nsted Acid Site to Water: Origin of the Broad IR Doublet Vibrational Probe at the Electrochemical Interface Resources Concepts in Biophysical Chemistry Time-Dependent Quantum Mechanics and Spectroscopy Nonlinear and 2D Spectroscopy Other Resources