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 Multiple Isotope-Labeled IR Spectra for Structural Characterization of Intrinsically Disordered Peptide 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 Resources Concepts in Biophysical Chemistry Time-Dependent Quantum Mechanics and Spectroscopy Nonlinear and 2D Spectroscopy Other Resources