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Go to Contributions to Books
Go to Major Conference Abstracts
Articles in Refereed Journals
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M. Zammit, J. Fleming and M. Volk
Receptor or Rhetoric? A Critical Review of Glucose Transporter-Targeting
in Nanomedicine.
Journal of Material Chemistry B 14 (2026) 4874-4902. DOI
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J. Everitt, J. Fernández-Vidal,
K. Younis, S. Qin, B.L. Mehdi, T.O. Samuels, A.J. Cowan, M. Brust, M. Volk,
L.J. Hardwick
Rapid Determination of SiO2 Shell Thickness on Au Core Nanoparticles
via Differential Centrifugal Sedimentation for SHINERS.
Journal of Physical Chemistry C 130 (2026) 8363-8371. DOI
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P. Siani, A. Eguskiza, G.
Frigerio, E. Donadoni, R. Ossanna, M. Volk, M. Brust, B.
Giovannone, R. Fiammengo, C. Di Valentin
Controlling Macrophage Uptake of Gold Nanoparticles through the Design of
an Effective Heterogeneous Coating.
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 18 (2026) 25847-25862. DOI
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2020 - 2024
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M. Broadbent, S.J. Chadwick, M. Brust and M. Volk
Gold Nanoparticles for Photothermal and Photodynamic Therapy.
ACS Omega 9 (2024) 44846-44859. DOI
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D. Belić, O. Fragueiro,
D. Salah, A. Beckett, M. Volk and M. Brust
Imaging of Nanoscale Gold in “Intact” Biological Cells by Environmental
Electron Microscopy.
Journal of Physical Chemistry C 125 (2021) 27865-27875. DOI
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T. Entradas, S. Waldron and M. Volk
The Detection Sensitivity of
Commonly Used Singlet Oxygen Probes in Aqueous Environments.
Journal of Photochemistry &
Photobiology, B: Biology 204 (2020) 111787. DOI
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2015 - 2019
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A.M. Davidson, M. Brust, D.L. Cooper and M. Volk
Sensitive Analysis of Protein
Adsorption to Colloidal Gold by Differential Centrifugal Sedimentation.
Analytical Chemistry 89 (2017)
16807-6814. DOI
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E. Colangelo, J. Comenge, D. Paramelle, M. Volk, Q. Chen and R. Lévy
Characterizing Self-Assembled
Monolayers on Gold Nanoparticles.
Bioconjugate Chemistry 28 (2017) 11-22. DOI
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E. Colangelo, Q. Chen, A.M. Davidson, D. Paramelle, M.B. Sullivan, M. Volk and R. Lévy
Computational and Experimental Investigation of the
Structure of Peptide Monolayers on Gold Nanoparticles.
Langmuir 33 (2017) 438-449. DOI
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S.J. Chadwick, D. Salah, P.M. Livesey, M. Brust and M.
Volk
Singlet Oxygen Generation by
Laser Irradiation of Gold Nanoparticles.
Journal of Physical Chemistry C
120 (2016) 10647-10657. DOI
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S. Mauri, M. Volk, S. Byard, H. Berchtold and H. Arnolds
Stabilization of Insulin by Adsorption on a
Hydrophobic Silane Self-Assembled Monolayer.
Langmuir 31 (2015) 8892-8900. DOI
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M. Volk, L. Milanesi, J.P. Waltho, C.A.
Hunter and
G.S. Beddard
The Roughness of the Protein Energy Landscape Results
in Anomalous Diffusion of the Polypeptide Backbone.
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 17 (2015) 762-782.
DOI
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2010 - 2014
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Ž. Krpetić, A.M.
Davidson, M. Volk, R. Lévy, M. Brust and D.L. Cooper
High-Resolution Sizing of Monolayer-Protected Gold
Clusters by Differential Centrifugal Sedimentation.
ACS Nano 7 (2013) 8881-8890. DOI
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E.A. Gooding, S. Sharma, S.A. Petty, B. Nolan and M.
Volk
pH-Dependent Helix Folding Dynamics of poly-Glutamic
Acid.
Chemical Physics 422 (2013) 115-123. DOI
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L. Milanesi, J.P. Waltho, C.A. Hunter, D.J. Shaw, G.S.
Beddard, G.D. Reid, S. Dev and M. Volk
Measurement of Energy Landscape Roughness of Folded and
Unfolded Proteins.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 109
(2012) 19563-19568. DOI
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M. Bruning, I.
Barsukov, B. Franke, S. Barbieri, M. Volk, S. Leopoldseder,
Z. Ucurum and O. Mayans
The Intracellular
Ig Fold: A Robust Protein Scaffold for the Engineering of Molecular
Recognition.
Protein Engineering,
Design & Selection 25 (2012) 205–212. DOI
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C.P. Shaw, D.A. Middleton, M. Volk and R. Lévy
Amyloid-Derived Peptide Forms Self-Assembled Monolayers on Gold
Nanoparticle with a Curvature-Dependent β-Sheet Structure.
ACS Nano 6 (2012) 1416–1426. DOI
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M.T. Khuc, L. Mendonça, S. Sharma, X. Solinas, M. Volk and
F. Hache
Measurement of Circular Dichroism Dynamics in a Nanosecond
Temperature-Jump Experiment.
Review of Scientific Instruments 82 (2011) 054302. DOI
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Ž. Krpetić, P. Nativo, V. Sée, I.A. Prior, M. Brust and M. Volk
Inflicting Controlled Non-thermal
Damage to Sub-cellular Structures by Laser-activated Gold Nanoparticles.
Nano Letters 10 (2010) 4549-4554. DOI
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2005 – 2009
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I. Robinson, M. Volk, L.D. Tung, G. Caruntu,
N. Kay and N.T.K. Thanh
Synthesis of Co Nanoparticles by Pulsed Laser Irradiation of Cobalt
Carbonyl in Organic Solution.
Journal of Physical Chemistry C 104 (2009) 9497-9501 DOI
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A. Pozo Ramajo, S.A. Petty, and M.
Volk
Fast Folding Dynamics of a-Helical Peptides - Effect of Solvent
Additives and pH
Chemical Physics 323 (2006) 11-20 DOI
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E.A. Gooding, A. Pozo Ramajo, J.
Wang, C. Palmer, E. Fouts, and M. Volk
The Effects of Individual Amino Acids on the Fast
Folding Dynamics of a-Helical Peptides
Chemical Communications (2005) 5985-5987. DOI
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A. Pozo Ramajo, S.A. Petty, A.
Starzyk, S.M. Decatur, and M. Volk
The a-Helix
Folds More Rapidly at the C-Terminus than at the N-Terminus
Journal of the American Chemical Society 127 (2005) 13784-13785. DOI
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2000 – 2004
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S.A.
Petty and M. Volk
Fast Folding Dynamics of an a-Helical Peptide with Bulky
Side Chains.
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 6 (2004) 1022-1030. DOI
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M. Volk
Fast Initiation of Peptide and Protein Folding Processes. (Microreview)
European Journal of Organic Chemistry (2001), 2605-2621.
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R.W. Flood, T.P. Geller, S.A. Petty, S.M. Roberts, J.
Skidmore and M. Volk
Efficient Asymmetric Epoxidation of a,b-Unsaturated Ketones Using
a Soluble Triblock Polyethylene Glycol - Polyamino
Acid Catalyst.
Organic Letters 3 (2001) 683-686. DOI
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Y. Kholodenko, M. Volk, E. Gooding, and R.M. Hochstrasser
Energy dissipation and relaxation processes in deoxy myoglobin after
photoexcitation in the Soret region.
Chemical Physics 259 (2000), 71- 87. DOI
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M. Volk, P. Gilch, C. Kompa, R. Haselsberger,
P. Härter, M. Stöckl, W. Scherer, K. Latzel and M.-E. Michel-Beyerle
Carbonyl Spectator Bonds as Sensitive Sensors for Charge Transfer
Reactions on the Femtosecond Time Scale.
Journal of Physical Chemistry A 104 (2000) 4984-4988. Direct Access
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1995 – 1999
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M. Volk
Comment on "Transient Anisotropy and Fragment Rotational Excitation
in the Femtosecond-Photodissociation of Triiodide in Solution".
Journal of Physical Chemistry A 103 (1999) 5621-5622. Direct Access
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R. Metzler, J. Klafter, J. Jortner
and M. Volk
Multiple Time Scales for Dispersive Kinetics in Early Events of Peptide
Folding.
Chemical Physics Letters 293 (1998) 477-484.
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S. Gnanakaran, M. Lim, M. Volk, E.
Gooding, Y. Kholodenko and R.M. Hochstrasser
Chemical Reaction Dynamics of Some Simple Molecules in Solution.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London A 356 (1998)
377-388.
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M. Volk, G. Aumeier, T.
Langenbacher, R. Feick, A. Ogrodnik and M.E. Michel-Beyerle
Energetics and Mechanism of Primary Charge Separation in Bacterial
Photosynthesis. A Comparative Study on Reaction Centers
of Rhodobacter sphaeroides
and Chloroflexus aurantiacus.
Journal of Physical Chemistry B 102 (1998) 735-751. Direct Access
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M. Volk, Y. Kholodenko, H.S.M. Lu, E.A. Gooding, W.F.
DeGrado and R.M.Hochstrasser
Peptide Conformational Dynamics and Vibrational Stark Effects Following
Photoinitiated Disulfide Cleavage.
Journal of Physical Chemistry B 101 (1997) 8607-8616.
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H.S.M. Lu, M. Volk, Y. Kholodenko, E. Gooding, R.M.
Hochstrasser and W.F. DeGrado
Aminothiotyrosine Disulfide, an Optical Trigger
for Initiation of Protein Folding.
Journal of the American Chemical Society 119 (1997) 7173-7180.
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M. Volk, S. Gnanakaran, E.
Gooding, Y. Kholodenko, N. Pugliano and R.M. Hochstrasser
Anisotropy Measurements of the Solvated HgI2 Dissociation:
Transition State and Fragment Rotational Dynamics.
Journal of Physical Chemistry A 101 (1997) 638-643.
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S. Gnanakaran, M. Lim, N.
Pugliano, M. Volk and R.M. Hochstrasser
Energy and Phase Relaxation Accompanying Impulsive Reactions in Liquids.
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 8 (1996) 9201-9220.
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1990 – 1994
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S.-T. Kim, M. Volk, G. Rousseau, P.F. Heelis, A. Sancar and
M.E. MichelBeyerle
Laser Flash Photolysis on an Intermediate in the Repair of Pyrimidine
Dimers by DNA Photolyase.
Journal of the American Chemical Society 116 (1994) 3115-3116.
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A. Ogrodnik, W. Keupp, M. Volk, G. Aumeier
and M.E. Michel-Beyerle
Inhomogeneity of Radical Pair Energies in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers
Revealed by Differences in Recombination Dynamics of P+HA-
When Detected in Delayed Emission and in Absorption.
Journal of Physical Chemistry 98 (1994) 3432-3439.
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M. Volk, M. Gilbert, G. Rousseau, M. Richter, A. Ogrodnik
and M.E. MichelBeyerle
Similarity of Primary Radical Pair Recombination in Photosystem II and
Bacterial Reaction Centers.
FEBS Letters 336 (1993) 357-362.
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M. Volk, T. Häberle, R. Feick, A.
Ogrodnik and M.E. Michel-Beyerle
What Can Be Learned from the Singlet-Triplet Splitting of the Radical
Pair P+H- in the Photosynthetic
Reaction Center? Conclusions from Electric Field Effects on the P+H-
Recombination Dynamics.
Journal of Physical Chemistry 97 (1993) 9831-9836.
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A. Ogrodnik, T. Langenbacher, G. Bieser, J. Siegl, U. Eberl,
M. Volk and M.E. Michel-Beyerle
Electric Field-Induced Decrease of Quantum Yield of Charge Separation in
Photosynthetic Reaction Centers.
Chemical Physics Letters 198 (1992) 653-658.
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M. Volk, G. Aumeier, T. Häberle, A. Ogrodnik, R. Feick and M.E. MichelBeyerle
Sensitive Analysis of the Occupancy of the Quinone Binding Site at the
Active Branch of Photosynthetic Reaction Centers.
Biochimica et Biophysica
Acta 1102 (1992) 253-259.
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M. Volk, G. Scheidel, A. Ogrodnik, R. Feick and M.E.
Michel-Beyerle
High Quantum Yield of Charge Separation in Reaction Centers
of Chloroflexus aurantiacus.
Biochimica et Biophysica
Acta 1058 (1991) 217-224.
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1988 – 1989
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A. Ogrodnik, M. Volk, R. Letterer, R. Feick and M.E.
Michel-Beyerle
Determination of Free Energies in Reaction Centers
of Rb. sphaeroides.
Biochimica et Biophysica
Acta 936 (1988) 361-371.
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P. Finckh, H. Heitele,
M. Volk and M.E. Michel-Beyerle
Electron Donor/Acceptor Interaction and Reorganization Parameters from Temperature-Dependent
Intramolecular Electron Transfer Rates.
Journal of Physical Chemistry 92 (1988) 6584-6590.
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Contributions to Books
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C. Bentley, M. Volk, J. Magnusson and C. Alexander
Polymer Coil-Globule Transition Dynamics on the
Nanosecond Time Scale
Central Laser Facility Annual Report 2009-2010, 30. Link
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P. Nativo, M. Brust, V. Sée, I. Prior
and M. Volk
Laser-induced Delivery of Gold Nanoparticles into
Living Cells
Central Laser Facility Annual Report 2008/09, 190-192.
Link
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R. Whynes, M. Volk, S.M. Tavender
and M. Towrie
UV Resonance Raman Spectroscopy Reveals Details of the "Random
Coil" State of Polypeptides.
Central Laser Facility Annual Report 2007-2008, 169-172. Link
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M. Volk, A. Pozo Ramajo, S.A.
Petty, A. Starzyk and S.M. Decatur
Time- Resolved Isotope-edited IR Spectroscopy - Detailed Insight into the
Fast Folding Dynamics of a-Helical
Peptides
Central Laser Facility Annual Report 2004/2005, 173-174. Link
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M. Volk and A. Pozo Ramajo
Laser-Pulse Induced Temperature Jumps for Investigating Fast Processes of
a-Helix
Folding – Comparison of
Direct and Indirect Heating of Water
Central Laser Facility Annual Report 2003/2004, 100-101.
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Y. Kholodenko, M. Volk, E. Gooding and R.M. Hochstrasser
New Features in the Ultrafast Ligand Dynamics and Energy Dissipation in
Myoglobin.
in: Ultrafast Phenomena X (Eds. P.F. Barbara, J.G. Fujimoto, W.H. Knox
and W. Zinth), pp. 351-352, Springer-Verlag,
Berlin, Heidelberg, 1996.
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M. Volk, A. Ogrodnik and M.E. Michel-Beyerle
The Recombination Dynamics of the Radical Pair P+H- in
External Magnetic and Electric Fields.
in: Anoxygenic Photosynthetic Bacteria (Eds. R.E. Blankenship, M.T.
Madigan and C.E. Bauer), Chapter 27, pp. 595-626, Kluwer Academic
Publishers, Netherlands,
1995.
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Ogrodnik, T. Langenbacher, U. Eberl, M. Volk and M.E.
Michel-Beyerle
Primary Charge Separation in Reaction Centers: Time-Resolved Spectral
Features of Electric Field Induced Reduction of Quantum Yield.
in : The Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Center II: Structure,
Spectroscopy and Dynamics (Eds. J. Breton and A. Vermeglio),
pp. 261-270, Plenum Press, New
York, 1992.
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R. Feick, J.L. Martin, J. Breton, M. Volk, G. Scheidel, T.
Langenbacher, C. Urbano, A. Ogrodnik and M.E. Michel-Beyerle
Biexponential Charge Separation and Monoexponential
Decay of P+H- in Reaction Centers of Chloroflexus
aurantiacus.
in : Reaction
Centers of Photosynthetic
Bacteria (Ed. M.E.
Michel-Beyerle), pp. 181-188, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1990.
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W. Aumeier, U. Eberl, A. Ogrodnik,
M. Volk, G. Scheidel, R. Feick, M. Plato and M.E. Michel-Beyerle
Unidirectionality of Charge Separation in Reaction Centers
of Rb. sphaeroides and Chloroflexus aurantiacus .
in : Current Research in Photosynthesis, Vol.I (Ed. M. Baltscheffsky),
pp. 133-136, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands, 1990.
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W.J. Coleman, D.C. Youvan, W. Aumeier, U. Eberl, M. Volk, E. Lang, J. Siegl, R.
Heckmann, W. Lersch, A. Ogrodnik and M.E. Michel-Beyerle
How Conclusive is Mutagenetic Replacement of Trp M250 in Photosynthetic
Reaction Centers ?
in : Current Research in Photosynthesis, Vol.I (Ed. M. Baltscheffsky),
pp. 153-156, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands, 1990.
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A. Ogrodnik, M. Volk and M.E. Michel-Beyerle
On the Energetics of the States 1P*, 3P*
and P+H- in Reaction Centers of Rb. sphaeroides.
in : The Photosynthetic Bacterial
Reaction Center,
Structure and Dynamics (Eds. J. Breton and A. Vermeglio),
pp. 177-183, Plenum Press, New
York, 1988.
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Major Conference Abstracts
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2000 -
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R. Whynes, M. Gonzales Barriuso, R. Cosstick and M. Volk
Nitrobenzyl Phototrigger
for Fast Protein Folding Processes.
Biophysical Journal Supplement (2009) 324a.
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M. Volk, L. Milanesi, J.P. Waltho, C.A. Hunter, S. Dev, D.J.
Shaw, G.S. Beddard and G.D. Reid
Universal Scaling Law for Polypeptide Backbone Dynamics on the Pico- to
Millisecond Time Scale.
Biophysical Journal Supplement (2009) 322a.
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T. Lyons, D. Martin and M. Volk
Using Atomic Force Microscopy to Measure Mechanical Strength of Nanometre
Scale Protein Fibrils.
Biophysical Journal Supplement (2009) 397a.
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E.A. Gooding, A. Pozo Ramajo, J.
Wang, C. Palmer, E. Fouts and M. Volk
Correlation Between Side Chain Helix Propensity and Fast Folding Dynamics
of a-Helical
Peptides.
Biophysical Journal 90 (2006) 169a.
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M. Volk, A. Pozo Ramajo, A.
Starzyk, S.A. Petty and S.M. Decatur
Time-Resolved Isotope-Edited Infrared Spectroscopy Reveals That the a-Helix
Folds More Rapidly at the C-Terminus Than at the N-Terminus.
Biophysical Journal 90 (2006) 345a.
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A. Pozo Ramajo, S.A. Petty and M.
Volk
The Effect of Solvent Additives and pH on the Fast
Folding Dynamics of Alanine-Based a-Helical Model
Peptides.
Biophysical Journal 90 (2006) 345a.
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B. Nolan, E. Gooding, S. Sharma and M. Volk
The helix-coil transition of polyglutamic acid.
Biophysical Journal 88 (2005) 34a.
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S.A. Petty and M. Volk
The Amide I Band of Helical Peptides.
Biophysical Journal 86 (2004) 617a.
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M. Volk, A. Pozo Ramajo, E. Leary
and S.A. Petty
Fast Folding Dynamics of Complex a-Helical Peptides.
Biophysical Journal 86 (2004) 503a.
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M. Volk, R.M. Orange and S.A. Petty
Kinetic Simulations of a-Helix Folding Following Fast
Temperature Jumps.
Biophysical Journal 84 (2003) 166a.
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1990 - 1999
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M. Volk, Y. Kholodenko, E. Gooding, H. Lu, W.F. DeGrado and
R.M. Hochstrasser
Early Events in Protein Folding Studied by Photoinitiation of a-Helix
Formation in De Novo Peptides.
Biophysical Journal 72 (1997) A21.
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A. Ogrodnik, W. Keupp, M. Volk, G. Aumeier
and M.E. Michel-Beyerle
Energetic Inhomogeneity of P+H- in
Photosynthetic Reaction Centers of Rb. sphaeroides.
Biophysical Journal 66 (1994) A127.
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T. Langenbacher, G. Bieser, U. Eberl, M. Volk, A. Ogrodnik
and M.E. MichelBeyerle
Electric Field Induced Decrease of Quantum Yield of Charge Separation in Photosynthetic
Reaction Centers.
Biophysical Journal 64 (1993) A132.
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M. Gilbert, G. Rousseau, M. Richter, A. Ogrodnik, M. Volk
and M.E. MichelBeyerle
Recombination Dynamics of the Radical Pair P+H- in
Photosystem II.
Biophysical Journal 64 (1993) A132.
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M. Volk, W. Neumann, A. Ogrodnik, K.A. Gray, D. Oesterhelt and M.E. MichelBeyerle
The Effect of Site-Directed Mutagenesis at Position M210 on the Energies
of the Charge Separated States P+B-
and P+H- in Reaction Centers of Rb. sphaeroides.
Biophysical Journal 64 (1993) A18.
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A. Ogrodnik, U. Eberl, T. Häberle,
W.Keupp, T.
Langenbacher, J. Siegl, M. Volk and M.E. Michel-Beyerle
Time-Resolved Electric Field Effects on Fluorescence and Absorption of
Reaction Centers from Rb. sphaeroides.
Biophysical Journal 61 (1992) A152.
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M. Volk, G. Aumeier, R. Feick, A.
Ogrodnik and M.E. Michel-Beyerle
Comparative Energetics for Primary Charge Separation in Reaction Centers from Rb. sphaeroides
and Chloroflexus aurantiacus.
Biophysical Journal 61 (1992) A100.
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Other
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M. Volk
Book-Review of "Optical Spectroscopy in Chemistry and Life
Sciences" by Werner Schmidt
Angewandte Chemie International Edition 45 (2006) 694.
Angewandte Chemie 118 (2006) 709.
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