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Martina Havenith

Martina Havenith

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Chemistry

D-Index
63
Citations
15249
World Ranking
8363
National Ranking
598

Overview

Martina Havenith is affiliated with Ruhr University Bochum in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of physics and chemistry. Their research spans multiple subfields including atomic and molecular physics, optics, molecular biology, spectroscopy, physical and theoretical chemistry, and electrical and electronic engineering. The focus of their work largely revolves around spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies, advanced chemical physics, quantum and superfluid helium dynamics, terahertz technology applications, molecular spectroscopy and structure, as well as electrochemical analysis and applications.

Among the recent publications showcasing their research are:

  • The key role of solvent in condensation: Mapping water in liquid-liquid phase-separated FUS (2021), Biophysical Journal
  • Wrapping Up Hydrophobic Hydration: Locality Matters (2020), The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Molecular Fingerprints of Hydrophobicity at Aqueous Interfaces from Theory and Vibrational Spectroscopies (2021), The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation? Ask the Water! (2023), The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Stripping away ion hydration shells in electrical double-layer formation: Water networks matter (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Martina Havenith's collaborative work involves frequent co-authors such as Gerhard Schwaab, Simone Pezzotti, Claudius Hoberg, Ellen M. Adams, and Federico Sebastiani.

Their publications are regularly found in leading scientific venues including:

  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Best Publications

  • Water Determines the Structure and Dynamics of Proteins

    Marie-Claire Bellissent-Funel;Ali Hassanali;Martina Havenith;Richard Henchman

  • An extended dynamical hydration shell around proteins.

    Simon Ebbinghaus;Seung Joong Kim;Matthias Heyden;Xin Yu

  • Dissecting the THz spectrum of liquid water from first principles via correlations in time and space.

    Matthias Heyden;Jian Sun;Stefan Funkner;Gerald Mathias;Gerald Mathias

  • Solute-induced retardation of water dynamics probed directly by terahertz spectroscopy

    U. Heugen;G. Schwaab;E. Bründermann;M. Heyden

  • The formation of nitrogen-containing functional groups on carbon nanotube surfaces: a quantitative XPS and TPD study

    Shankhamala Kundu;Wei Xia;Wilma Busser;Michael Becker

  • New insights into the role of water in biological function: studying solvated biomolecules using terahertz absorption spectroscopy in conjunction with molecular dynamics simulations.

    Valeria Conti Nibali;Martina Havenith

  • Protein Stabilization by Macromolecular Crowding through Enthalpy Rather Than Entropy

    Michael Senske;Lisa Törk;Benjamin Born;Martina Havenith

  • Long-range influence of carbohydrates on the solvation dynamics of water--answers from terahertz absorption measurements and molecular modeling simulations.

    M. Heyden;E. Bründermann;U. Heugen;G. Niehues

  • Long-range protein-water dynamics in hyperactive insect antifreeze proteins.

    Konrad Meister;Simon Ebbinghaus;Yao Xu;John G. Duman

  • Watching the low-frequency motions in aqueous salt solutions: the terahertz vibrational signatures of hydrated ions.

    Stefan Funkner;Gudrun Niehues;Diedrich A. Schmidt;Matthias Heyden

  • The rotational spectrum of single OCS molecules in liquid 4He droplets

    Slava Grebenev;Matthias Hartmann;Martina Havenith;Boris Sartakov

  • The terahertz dance of water with the proteins: the effect of protein flexibility on the dynamical hydration shell of ubiquitin

    Benjamin Born;Seung Joong Kim;Simon Ebbinghaus;Martin Gruebele

  • Correlated structural kinetics and retarded solvent dynamics at the metalloprotease active site

    Moran Grossman;Benjamin Born;Matthias Heyden;Dmitry Tworowski

  • Aggregation-induced dissociation of HCl(H2O)4 below 1 K: the smallest droplet of acid.

    Anna Gutberlet;Gerhard Schwaab;Özgür Birer;Marco Masia

  • Photons and particles emitted from cold atmospheric-pressure plasma inactivate bacteria and biomolecules independently and synergistically

    Jan Wilm Lackmann;Simon Schneider;Eugen Edengeiser;Fabian Jarzina

  • Protein sequence- and pH-dependent hydration probed by terahertz spectroscopy.

    Simon Ebbinghaus;Seung Joong Kim;Matthias Heyden;Xin Yu

  • Rattling in the cage: ions as probes of sub-picosecond water network dynamics.

    Diedrich A. Schmidt;Özgür Birer;Stefan Funkner;Benjamin P. Born

  • Real-time detection of protein-water dynamics upon protein folding by terahertz absorption spectroscopy.

    Seung Joong Kim;Benjamin Born;Martina Havenith;Martin Gruebele

  • Label-free imaging of metal-carbonyl complexes in live cells by Raman microspectroscopy.

    Konrad Meister;Johanna Niesel;Ulrich Schatzschneider;Nils Metzler-Nolte

  • Combining THz spectroscopy and MD simulations to study protein-hydration coupling.

    Matthias Heyden;Martina Havenith

Frequent Co-Authors

David M. Leitner
David M. Leitner University of Nevada Reno
Martin Gruebele
Martin Gruebele University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dominik Marx
Dominik Marx Ruhr University Bochum
Teresa Head-Gordon
Teresa Head-Gordon University of California, Berkeley
Harold Linnartz
Harold Linnartz Leiden University
Nils Metzler-Nolte
Nils Metzler-Nolte Ruhr University Bochum
W. Leo Meerts
W. Leo Meerts Radboud University
Irit Sagi
Irit Sagi Weizmann Institute of Science
Andreas D. Wieck
Andreas D. Wieck Ruhr University Bochum
Arthur L. DeVries
Arthur L. DeVries University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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