We have modified a spectrometer for the measurement of fluorescence-detected magnetic (and natural) circular dichroism (FDMCD). The instrument can be operated either in a direct mode in which the average and polarization-induced differential fluorescent intensities are recorded separately or in a mode which records their ratio. We have measured the FDMCD of tryptophan, which is itself fluoresce...

Circular dichroism, that is, the differential absorption of a system to left and right circularly polarized light, is one of the only techniques capable of providing morphological information of certain samples. In biology, for instance, circular dichroism spectroscopy is widely used to study the structure of proteins. More recently, it has also been used to characterize metamaterials and plasm...

T. A. Raybould,1, ⇤ V. A. Fedotov,1 N. Papasimakis,1 I. Kuprov,2 I. J. Youngs,3 W. T. Chen,4, † D. P. Tsai,4, 5 and N. I. Zheludev1, 6 Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom DSTL, Salisbury, United Kingdom Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan...

The significance of the pairing theorem for alternant hydrocarbons is demonstrated by a variety of experimental data, but standard all-valence electrons methods based on the »Neglect of Differential Overlap« (NDO) approximation fail to predict the observed pairing properties for this class of compounds. In this communication, a new all-valence electrons method is presented, using a basis of L6w...

Influence of chirality on the optical second harmonic generated from planar array of G-shaped metamaterials is studied. Circular dichroism of these nanostructures manifests itself via different efficiency of left and right circularly polarized second harmonic that is observed for the samples of different handedness. This difference allows to distinguish between the two enantiomers.

In this study we have showed combined effect of two single point mutations S311C (LipR2) and R214C (LipR3) on the protein stability and overall change in biochemical properties. We found that both of these mutations are near the surface and individually enhanced the thermal stability of the protein (T1/2 for S311C=4.5 h & R214C=7 h at 60°C). But, their combined effect was not additive on thermo...

We have observed the magnetic-phase transitions of CeSb and CeBi by a magnetic circular dichroism spectroscopy in the infrared region. The phase boundary is similar to that detected by neutron scattering. The optical spectra re#ect the electronic structures in the ordered states. The electronic structure and also the origin of the magnetic transition are discussed. ( 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. ...

The photoionization process NO A2Z+(c =0, N=22) NO+ X'Z+(v+=0, lV+)+e is studied with suScient energy resolution that the photoelectron angular distributions associated with individual rotational levels N+ of the ion are determined. By ionizing with left and right circularly polarized light and observing the change in the rotationally resolved photoelectron angular distributions, we can deduce ...

Intramolecular folding in three tandem guanine repeats of human telomeric DNA has been investigated using optical-tweezers, MD simulation and circular dichroism. A mechanically and thermodynamically stable species in this sequence shows a structure consistent with a triplex conformation. A similar species has also been observed to coexist with a G-quadruplex in a DNA sequence with four tandem g...