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Overview

R. Brian Dyer is affiliated with Emory University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within energy and materials science, emphasizing renewable energy, sustainability, and molecular biology.

The main fields of study for Dyer include:

  • Energy
  • Materials Science

The subfields explored by Dyer cover:

  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Molecular Biology
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Their research topics mainly involve:

  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Advanced battery technologies research
  • Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics

Dyer's publication record includes recent works such as:

  • "Shape-Shifting Peptide Nanomaterials: Surface Asymmetry Enables pH-Dependent Formation and Interconversion of Collagen Tubes and Sheets" (2020) published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Acceleration of catalysis in dihydrofolate reductase by transient, site-specific photothermal excitation" (2021) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Surface-Ligand "Liquid" to "Crystalline" Phase Transition Modulates the Solar H2 Production Quantum Efficiency of CdS Nanorod/Mediator/Hydrogenase Assemblies" (2020) published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • "Metal-ligand cooperativity in the soluble hydrogenase-1 from Pyrococcus furiosus" (2020) published in Chemical Science
  • "The Laser-Induced Potential Jump: A Method for Rapid Electron Injection into Oxidoreductase Enzymes" (2020) published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Frequent publication venues for Dyer include:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Key collaborative relationships include coauthors:

  • Monica L. K. Sanchez (3 collaborations)
  • Alisina Bazrafshan (2 collaborations)
  • Hew Ming Helen Siaw (2 collaborations)
  • Khalid Salaita (2 collaborations)
  • Gregory E. Vansuch (2 collaborations)

Best Publications

  • Fast Events in Protein Folding: Helix Melting and Formation in a Small Peptide

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  • Fast events in protein folding: Relaxation dynamics of secondary and tertiary structure in native apomyoglobin

    Rudolf Gilmanshin;Skip Williams;Robert H. Callender;William H. Woodruff

  • FAST EVENTS IN PROTEIN FOLDING: The Time Evolution of Primary Processes

    Robert H. Callender;R. Brian Dyer;Rudolf Gilmanshin;William H. Woodruff

  • INFRARED STUDIES OF FAST EVENTS IN PROTEIN FOLDING

    R. Brian Dyer;R. Brian Dyer;Feng Gai;Feng Gai;Feng Gai;William H. Woodruff;Rudolf Gilmanshin

  • Electronic coupling in cyano-bridged ruthenium polypyridine complexes and role of electronic effects on cyanide stretching frequencies

    Carlo Alberto Bignozzi;Roberto Argazzi;Jon R. Schoonover;Keith C. Gordon

  • Nanoparticle-Free Synthesis of Fluorescent Gold Nanoclusters at Physiological Temperature

    Yuping Bao;Chang Zhong;Dung M. Vu;Jamshid P. Temirov

  • The dynamical nature of enzymatic catalysis.

    Robert Callender;R. Brian Dyer

  • Bound water in the proton translocation mechanism of the haem-copper oxidases.

    Riistama S;Hummer G;Puustinen A;Puustinen A;Dyer Rb

  • Protein folding and unfolding on a complex energy landscape.

    Daan Thorn Leeson;Feng Gai;Hector M. Rodriguez;Lydia M. Gregoret

  • Residue specific resolution of protein folding dynamics using isotope-edited infrared temperature jump spectroscopy.

    Scott H. Brewer;Benben Song;Daniel P. Raleigh;R. Brian Dyer

  • Probing protein dynamics using temperature jump relaxation spectroscopy

    Robert Callender;R Brian Dyer

  • Direct Evidence of Active-Site Reduction and Photodriven Catalysis in Sensitized Hydrogenase Assemblies

    Brandon L. Greene;Crisjoe A. Joseph;Michael J. Maroney;R. Brian Dyer

  • Ultrafast electron transfer and coupled vibrational dynamics in cyanide bridged mixed-valence transition-metal dimers

    Stephen K. Doorn;R. Brian Dyer;Page O. Stoutland;William H. Woodruff

  • Effect of modulating unfolded state structure on the folding kinetics of the villin headpiece subdomain

    Scott H. Brewer;Dung M. Vu;Yuefeng Tang;Ying Li

  • Fourier transform infrared evidence for connectivity between CuB and glutamic acid 286 in cytochrome bo3 from Escherichia coli.

    Puustinen A;Bailey Ja;Dyer Rb;Mecklenburg Sl

  • Application of Time-Resolved, Step-Scan Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy to Excited-State Electronic Structure in Polypyridyl Complexes of Rhenium(I).

    Jon R. Schoonover;Geoffrey F. Strouse;R. Brian Dyer;W. Douglas Bates

  • Advances in time-resolved approaches to characterize the dynamical nature of enzymatic catalysis

    Robert Callender;R. Brian Dyer

  • Mid-infrared spectrum of [Ru(bpy)3]2+*

    Kristin M. Omberg;Jon R. Schoonover;Joseph A. Treadway;Robert M. Leasure

  • Azidohomoalanine: A Conformationally Sensitive IR Probe of Protein Folding, Protein Structure, and Electrostatics

    Humeyra Taskent-Sezgin;Juah Chung;Partha S. Banerjee;Sureshbabu Nagarajan

  • Catalytic deoxyribozyme-modified nanoparticles for RNAi-independent gene regulation.

    Kevin Yehl;Jayashree P. Joshi;Brandon L. Greene;R. Brian Dyer

  • The mechanism of beta-hairpin formation.

    R. Brian Dyer;Shelia J. Maness;Eric S. Peterson;Stefan Franzen

  • Dynamics of the Primary Processes of Protein Folding: Helix Nucleation

    James H. Werner;R. Brian Dyer;and R. Matthew Fesinmeyer;Niels H. Andersen

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Callender
Robert Callender Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Jon R. Schoonover
Jon R. Schoonover Los Alamos National Laboratory
Michael W. W. Adams
Michael W. W. Adams University of Georgia
Stefan Franzen
Stefan Franzen North Carolina State University
Daniel P. Raleigh
Daniel P. Raleigh Stony Brook University
Carlo Alberto Bignozzi
Carlo Alberto Bignozzi University of Ferrara
Thomas J. Meyer
Thomas J. Meyer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Robert B. Gennis
Robert B. Gennis University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Feng Gai
Feng Gai University of Pennsylvania
Roberto Argazzi
Roberto Argazzi University of Ferrara

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