We demonstrate a new analytical X-ray computed tomography technique for visualizing and quantifying the mass density of materials comprised of low atomic number elements with unknown atomic ratios. The mass density was obtained from the experimentally observed ratio of the imaginary and real parts of the complex X-ray refractive index. An empirical linear relationship between the X-ray mass att...

Cross-linking of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is increasingly important with recent focus on its top surface stiffness. In this paper, we demonstrate that hyperthermal hydrogen projectile bombardment, a surface sensitive cross-linking technology, is superior in enhancing the mechanical properties of a cured PDMS surface without significantly degrading its hydrophobicity. Both water contact angle...

In recent years, the biochemical study of lipids has transformed from slow multi-dimensional chromatographic separations and chemical derivatization strategies to higher throughput analysis by mass spectrometry. Advances in mass spectrometry have enabled in-depth lipidomic analyses with unparalleled qualitative and quantitative sensitivity. However, unambiguous identification and quantitation o...

Antimicrobial peptides are postulated to disrupt microbial phospholipid membranes. The prevailing molecular model is based on the formation of stable or transient pores although the direct observation of the fundamental processes is lacking. By combining rational peptide design with topographical (atomic force microscopy) and chemical (nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry) imaging on the s...

Data included in this article are associated with the research article entitled 'Protocol of single cells preparation for time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry' (Bobrowska et al., 2016 in press) [1]. This data file contains topography images of single melanoma cells recorded using atomic force microscopy (AFM). Single cells cultured on glass surface were subjected to the proposed sampl...

We consider a simple model of lossless interaction between a two-level single atom and a standing-wave single-mode laser field which creates a one-dimensional optical lattice. Internal dynamics of the atom is governed by the laser field which is treated to be classical with a large number of photons. Center-of-mass classical atomic motion is governed by the optical potential and the internal at...

Atomic Absorption Based Techniques. Atomic Fluorescence Spectroscopy. Figure 1.3 Schematic diagram showing the before (left) and after (right) the draw the sample into a nebulizer by the Bernoulli Effect where it is converted. Atomic absorption and emission spectroscopy in the ultraviolet and visible A schematic diagram of a UV-Vis spectrophotometer is shown in Figure.11. Preface Inductively co...

We have used the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) and the Swedish-ESO Submillimetre Telescope (SEST) to map the large-scale atomic and molecular gas in the nearby (4 Mpc) Circinus galaxy. The ATCA H I mosaic of Circinus exhibits the warps in position angle and inclination revealed in the single-pointing image of Jones et al. (1999), both of which appear to settle beyond the inner 30 kpc...

Two broad absorption features were discovered in the Chandra/ACIS spectrum of the isolated neutron star 1E1207.4-5209 (Sanwal et al. 2002). Expanding on our previous paper (Hailey & Mori 2002), we describe the atomic physics methodology which leads to the identification of this neutron star’s atmospheric composition. The solution of Schrödinger’s equation in an intense magnetic field combined w...

The accurate determination of atomic masses and the high-precision measurement of the bound-electron g factor are prerequisites for the determination of the electron mass, which is one of the fundamental constants of nature. In the 2002 CODATA adjustment [P. J. Mohr and B. N. Taylor, Rev. Mod. Phys. 77, 1 (2005)], the values of the electron mass and the electron-proton mass ratio are mainly bas...