Entry Date:
January 16, 2015

Single-Molecule Ultrafast Spectroscopy

Principal Investigator Gabriela Schlau-Cohen


Biological systems exhibit energetic and structural dynamics that span decades of time scales. How slow conformational dynamics impact ultrafast energy and electron transfer dynamics, however, remains unexplored.

We will look at both energy transfer and conformational dynamics to determine how photosynthetic proteins are robust to fluctuations and electron transfer rates in nanomaterials to characterize heterogeneity.