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Article published at Communication Chemisty
The transient domains of ordered water induced by divalent cations (Mg2+, Ca2+ and Sr2+) lead to lipid membrane curvature fluctuations. A convincing evidence for the direct connection between lipid hydration structure and macroscopic dynamic curvature fluctuations. (Learn more …)
Dr. Okur is awarded the Marie-Curie Fellowship grant.
Dr. Okur has been awarded the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) Individual Fellowship grant for two years. This is the 9th such grant awarded to a researcher at Bilkent.
Dr. Okur has proposed to elucidate chemical processes occurring at biological surfaces by probing the adjacent interfacial water molecules using nonlinear optical techniques. While the leading scientific approach to investigating biological surfaces has been incorporating dye molecules to probe their optical response, Dr. Okur has adapted an alternative, non-invasive approach: employing water molecules as a probe to report on the chemical processes at these biosurfaces. The underlying motivation is that biological surfaces, being naturally bathed in aqueous solutions, are always in contact with the adjacent water molecules; such a method can thus be applied to almost all biosurfaces.
Dr. Okur gave a talk at NanoTR 15
Prof. Halil Okur gave a talk at NanoTR 15 which was held in Antalya, Turkiye. His talk was entitled “Exploring Biological Nano-Droplets with Nonlinear Scattering.”
Lab for Biointerfacial Chemistry initiates at Bilkent
Okur Research Group led by Dr. Halil I. Okur launches at Bilkent University in September 2019.