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Exploration of structural, thermal and spectroscopic properties of self-activated sulfate Eu2(SO4)3 with isolated SO4 groups

  • Denisenko, Yu.G.;Aleksandrovsky, A.S.;Atuchin, V.V.;Krylov, A.S.;Molokeev, M.S.;Oreshonkov, A.S.;Shestakov, N.P.;Andreev, O.V.
    • Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
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    • v.68
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    • pp.109-116
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    • 2018
  • $Eu_2(SO_4)_3$ was synthesized by chemical precipitation method and the crystal structure was determined by Rietveld analysis. The compound crystallizes in monoclinic space group C2/c. In the air environment, $Eu_2(SO_4)_3$ is stable up to $670^{\circ}C$. The sample of $Eu_2(SO_4)_3$ was examined by Raman, Fourier-transform infrared absorption and luminescence spectroscopy methods. The low site symmetry of $SO_4$ tetrahedra results in the appearance of the IR inactive ${\nu}_1$ mode around $1000cm^{-1}$ and ${\nu}_2$ modes below $500cm^{-1}$. The band intensities redistribution in the luminescent spectra of $Eu^{3+}$ ions is analyzed in terms of the peculiarities of its local environment.

In Vivo Quantitative Analysis of PKA Subunit Interaction and cAMP Level by Dual Color Fluorescence Cross Correlation Spectroscopy

  • Park, Hyungju;Pack, Changi;Kinjo, Masataka;Kaang, Bong-Kiun
    • Molecules and Cells
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.87-92
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    • 2008
  • We employed dual color Fluorescence Cross Correlation Spectroscopy (FCCS) to measure the interaction between PKA regulatory (RII) and catalytic subunits (CAT) in living cells. Elevation of intracellular cAMP with forskolin decreased the cross-correlation amplitude between RFP-fused RII (RII -mRFP) and GFP-fused CAT (CAT-EGFP) by 50%, indicating that cAMP elevation leads to dissociation of RII-CAT complexes. Moreover, diffusion coefficient analysis showed that the diffusion rate of CAT-EGFP was significantly increased, suggesting that the decreased RII-CAT association caused by cAMP generated free CAT subunits. Our study demonstrates that in vivo FCCS measurements and their quantitative analysis permit one not only to directly quantify protein-protein interactions but also to estimate changes in the intracellular cAMP concentration.

Determination of Heparin Using Norfloxacin-cerium Complex as a Fluorescence Probe by Spectrofluorimetry

  • Patil, Shailaja R.;Mote, Umesh S.;Patil, Shivajirao R.;Kolekar, Govind B.
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.30 no.12
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    • pp.3034-3038
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    • 2009
  • A simple, rapid, practical and sensitive spectofluorimetric method was developed for the determination of trace amount of heparin (Hep). Under the Optimum conditions, we studied the interaction between NFLX-Ce$^{3+}$-Hep complex by using absorption and fluorescence spectra. It was observed that Hep remarkably enhance the fluorescence intensity of the NFLX-Ce$^{3+}$ complex at ${\lambda}$= 356 nm in the buffer solution of pH = 7.60 and the enhancement effect is shown to relate with the concentration of Hep. The linear range and detection limit for the determination of Hep was obtained. By the Rosenthal graphic method, the association constant (K) and binding numbers (N) of Hep with probe were investigated. This method is relatively free of interference from coexisting substances and successfully applied for the determination of heparin in heparin sodium injection samples. A suitable mechanism of fluorescence enhancement between NFLX-Ce$^{3+}$ and the NFLX-Ce$^{3+}$-Hep systems were proposed and discussed.

Two-color Transient Grating Spectroscopy of a Two-level System

  • Kwak, Kyoung-Won;Cho, Min-Haeng;Fleming, Graham R.;Agarwal, Ritesh;Prall, Bradley S.
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.24 no.8
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    • pp.1069-1074
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    • 2003
  • A theoretical description and experimental demonstration of homodyne-detected two-color transient grating (2-C TG) signal are presented. By treating the coupled bath degrees of freedom as a collection of harmonic oscillators and using a short-time expansion method, approximated nonlinear response functions were obtained. An analytic expression for the two-color transient grating signal was obtained by carrying out relevant Gaussian integrals. The initial rising and decaying parts of the 2-C TG signal is shown to be critically dependent on the ultrafast inertial component of the solvation correlation function. The experimental results confirm the predictions of the theoretical model.

QUANTITATIVE MONITORING OF TISSUE OXYGENATION BY TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY

  • Yamashita, Yutaka;Oda, Motoki;Ohmae, Etsuko;Tsuchiya, Yutaka
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Near Infrared Spectroscopy Conference
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    • 2001.06a
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    • pp.2101-2101
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    • 2001
  • Near-infrared spectroscopy is now being used in clinical diagnosis as a non-invasive monitor of tissue oxygenation state. However, due to lack of the optical pathlength information within tissues, it is still difficult to quantitate the hemoglobin concentration with present CW techniques. Time-resolved spectroscopy (TRS), which measures temporal profiles of emerging light from tissues, enables to estimate the pathlength distribution within tissues by converting time to distance. Consequently, quantitative measurement of tissue oxygenation is possible by analyzing the data with optical diffusion equation 1) or our Microscopic Beer-Lambert law2). Time-Resolved Spectroscopy System : TRS-1O3) Our TRS-10 system consists of a three-wavelength (759, 797, 833 nm) PLP as pulsed light source, a high speed PMT with high sensitivity and three signal-processing circuits for time-resolved measurement (CFD/TAC, A/D converter and histogram memory). Optical pulse train consisting of 759, 797 and 833nm is generated by PLP at 5㎒ repetition rate and irradiated a sample through a single optical fiber. The diffuse-reflected light from the sample is collected by a bundle fiber and then detected by the PMT for single photon measurement. After being amplified by a following fast amplifier, the electrical signals for each wavelength are picked out by CFD/TAC module. Then, a signal processing circuit integrated the TRS data for each wavelength individually. The simultaneous TRS measurement for three wavelengths achieved without any optical or mechanical switch. Experiment and Results Input and detection fibers of TRS-10 were attached at the human forehead with a fiber separation of 3cm. TRS measurements were continuously performed for about 20 minutes including 2 minutes hyper ventilation. It was observed that the total hemoglobin concentration was decreasing during the hyper ventilation and recovered until 2 minutes after hyper ventilation. On the other hand, the deoxy-hemoglobin concentration began to increase after hyper ventilation and had its peak at around 2 minute later, showing 502 drop from 75% to 60% due to inhibition of breathing by performing hyper ventilation. The results showed that this system might be able to quantitate the concentrations of oxy- and deoxy-hemoglobin in the human brain.

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Effects of Temperature and Additives on the Thermal Stability of Glucoamylase from Aspergillus niger

  • Liu, Yang;Meng, Zhaoli;Shi, Ruilin;Zhan, Le;Hu, Wei;Xiang, Hongyu;Xie, Qiuhong
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.33-43
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    • 2015
  • GAM-1 and GAM-2, two themostable glucoamylases from Aspergillus niger B-30, possess different molecular masses, glycosylation, and thermal stability. In the present study, the effects of additives on the thermal inactivation of GAM-1 and GAM-2 were investigated. The half-lives of GAM-1 and GAM-2 at 70℃ were 45 and 216 min, respectively. Data obtained from fluorescence spectroscopy, circular dichroism spectroscopy, UV absorption spectroscopy, and dynamic light scattering demonstrated that during the thermal inactivation progress, combined with the loss of the helical structure and a majority of the tertiary structure, tryptophan residues were partially exposed and further led to glucoamylases aggregating. The thermal stability of GAM-1 and GAM-2 was largely improved in the presence of sorbitol and trehalose. Results from spectroscopy and Native-PAGE confirmed that sorbitol and trehalose maintained the native state of glucoamylases and prevented their thermal aggregation. The loss of hydrophobic bonding and helical structure was responsible for the decrease of glucoamylase activity. Additionally, sorbitol and trehalose significantly increased the substrate affinity and catalytic efficiency of the two glucoamylases. Our results display an insight into the thermal inactivation of glucoamylases and provide an important base for industrial applications of the thermally stable glucoamylases.

Chemical structure of the bilayer $Ag/Li_2O$ cathode interface in organic light-emitting diodes

  • Joo, Min-Ho;Baik, Min-Kyung;Choi, Jong-Kwon;Park, Kyu-Ho;Lee, Jay-Man;Kim, Myung-Seop;Yang, Joong-Hwan
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.08a
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    • pp.1006-1009
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    • 2006
  • The chemical structure of the interface between Ag with $Li_2O$ and tri (8-hydroxyquinoline) aluminum (Alq) was investigated by using in-situ characterization of x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS). $Li_2O$ on Ag had lower barrier height than LiF on Ag. XPS and UPS results show the interaction between $Li_2O$ and Alq leads to gap state formation in HOMO of Alq.

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Two Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy

  • Fleming, Graham R.;Yang, Min-O;Agarwal, Ritesh;Prall, Bradley S.;Kaufman, Laura J.;Neuwahl, Fred
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.24 no.8
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    • pp.1081-1090
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    • 2003
  • Two different electronically resonant two-dimensional spectroscopies are described. The first, two-color photon echo peak shift spectroscopy, is sensitive to correlations in transition frequency between the initial and probed (final) states. It provides new insight into the mechanism of ultrafast solvation and should prove useful for characterizing dynamics in inhomogeneous systems in general. The second technique, fifth order threepulse scattering, contains two coherence periods whose durations are controlled. The entire two-dimensional surface was recorded for a dye molecule in dilute solution and a photosynthetic light-harvesting complex. The data provide insight into the short-time dynamics of solvation and exciton relaxation, respectively.

Phonon bottleneck effects of InAs quantum dots

  • Lee, Joo-In;Sungkyu Yu;Lee, Jae-Young m;Lee, Hyung-Gyoo
    • Journal of Korean Vacuum Science & Technology
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.27-32
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    • 2000
  • We have studied the carrier relaxation of InAs/GaAs modulation-doped quantum dots depending on the excitation wavelength and modulation-doping concentration by using the time-ressolved spectroscopy. At the excitation below GaAs barrier band gap, the relaxation processes become very slow, implying to observe the phonon bottleneck effects. On the other hand, at the excitation far above GaAs band gap, phonon bottleneck effects are broken down due to Auger processes. Increasing modulation-doping concentration, the relaxation times, by virtue of Coulomb scattering between electrons in GaAs doped layer and carriers in InAs quantum dots, are observed to become fast.

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Characterization of Diamond-like Carbon Films on Si-Wafer Deposited by DC Plasma CVD.

  • Ju Tack Han;Jong-Gi Jee;Eun-joo Shin;Dongho Kim
    • Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.434-441
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    • 1994
  • 메탄과 수소 혼합가스로 직류 플라즈마 화학 증착법을 이용하여 방전전류 반응압력 메탄농도 및 피착체의 온도를 변화시키면서 다이아몬드 유산탄소 박막(DLCF)을 Si(111)-웨이퍼 위에 합성하였다. 주 사전자 현미경(SEM)과 레이져 Raman 스펙트로포토메터로 확인된 양질의 DLCF를 얻은 조건은 방전전 류 반응 압력, 메탄농도 그리고 피착체의 온도가 각각 480mA, 32 Torr, 1.0 vol% 및 85$0^{\circ}C$ 였다. 이 DLCF는 대부분 sp3 탄소결합으로 된 구형의 알갱이들로 구성되어 있고 그굴절률은 2.2로 천연다이아몬 드와 비슷한 값을 가지고 있다. 또한 DLCF 성장에서 수소피복이 매우 중요한 것으로 밝혀졌다.

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