On this page we highlight recent and important publications by scientists from DIFFER, starting from 2007. The full text of each paper can be downloaded via the publisher's site by clicking on the source.

  • Gas-Phase IR Spectroscopy of Deprotonated Amino Acids
    Author(s): Jos Oomens, Jeffrey D. Steill and Britta Redlich

    Reference: J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 4310 (2009)


  • Changes in binding motif of protonated heterodimers containing valine and amines investigated using IRMPD spectroscopy between 800 and 3700 cm-1 and theory
    Author(s): Jeremy T. O'Brien, James S. Prell, Jeffrey D. Steill, Jos Oomens and Evan R. Williams

  • Vibrational spectroscopy of bare and solvated ionic complexes of biological relevance
    Author(s): Polfer NC, Oomens J.

    Reference: Mass Spec Rev 28:468-494, 2009


  • Dynamics of lane formation in driven binary complex plasmas
    Author(s): K. R. Sutterlin, A. Wysocki, A. V. Ivlev, C. Rath, H. M. Thomas, M. Rubin- Zuzic, W. J. Goedheer, V. E. Fortov, A. M. Lipaev, V. I. Molotkov, O. F. Petrov, G. E. Morfill, and H. Lowen

  • Stiff, and Sticky in the Right Places: Binding Interactions in Isolated Mechanically Interlocked Molecules Probed by Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy
    Author(s): Anouk M. Rijs, Isabelle Compagnon, Jos Oomens, Jeffrey S. Hannam, David A. Leigh and Wybren J. Buma

  • Role of Sequence in Salt-Bridge Formation for Alkali Metal Cationized GlyArg and ArgGly Investigated with IRMPD Spectroscopy and Theory
    Author(s): James S. Prell, Maria Demireva, Jos Oomens and Evan R. Williams

  • Faranoff-Riley type I jet deceleration at density discontinuities. Relativistic hydrodynamics with a realistic equation of state
    Author(s): Z. Meliani, R. Keppens, B. Giacomazzo

    Reference: A&A 491, 321-337 (2008)


  • Structure of the Observable Histidine Radical Cation in the Gas Phase: A Captodative a-Radical Ion
    Author(s): Jeffrey Steill, Junfang Zhao, Chi-Kit Siu, Yuyong Ke, Udo H. Verkerk, Jos Oomens, Robert C. Dunbar, Alan C. Hopkinson, and K.W. Michael Siu

  • Conformational Preferences of an Amyloidogenic Peptide: IR Spectroscopy of Ac-VQIVYK-NHMe
    Author(s): Timothy D. Vaden, Sally A. N. Gowers, Tjalling S. J. A. de Boer, Jeffrey D. Steill, Jos Oomens, and Lavina C. Snoek

  • Extragalactic jets with helical magnetic fields: relativistic MHD simulations
    Author(s): R. Keppens, Z. Meliani, B. van der Holst and F. Casse

    Reference: A&A 486, 663-678 (2008)