This article gives an overview of the use of X-ray absorption spectroscopy to characterize the magnetic properties for technologically important, low dimensional magnetic materials. An overview is given both for the experimental hardware, the measurements and the analysis of the spectra. The information obtained is discussed for metallic and semiconducting systems, using both the X-ray magnetic...

Circular dichroism (CD) is a physical property observed in chiral molecules by inducing the difference of absorption between left- and right-handed circularly polarized light (CPL). spectroscopy widely used field chemistry biology to distinguish enantiomers, which typically show either positive or severe side effects biological applications depending on molecular structures’ chirality. To effec...

With the advancement of nanotoxicology and nanomedicine, it has been realized that nanoparticles (NPs) interact readily with biomolecular species and other chemical and organic matter to result in biocorona formation. The field of the environmental health and safety of nanotechnology, or NanoEHS, is currently lacking significant molecular-resolution data, and we set out to characterize biocoron...

In this paper, we describe for the first time the synthesis of new chiral nanosized metal oxide surfaces based on chiral self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) coated with metal oxide (TiO2) nanolayers. In this new type of nanosize chiral surface, the metal oxide nanolayers enable the protection of the chiral self-assembled monolayers while preserving their enantioselective nature. The chiral nature ...

We have investigated the individual magnetic moments of Ni, Mn and Tb atoms in the intermetallic compound TbNi2Mn in the Laves phase (magnetic phase transition temperature TC ∼131 K) by X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) studies at 300 K, 80 K and 20 K. Analyses of the experimental results reveal that Ni atoms at 20 K in an applied magnetic field of 1 T carry an intrinsic magnetic moment ...

Exposing native calf thymus DNA (in 0.1 M NaClO4, 5 mM cacodylic acid buffer, pH 6.81, 25 degrees C) to increasing concentrations of Hg(ClO4)2 produces dramatic changes in its circular dichroism (CD). Let r = [mol of added Hg(II)*/[mol DNA base]: the conservative CD spectrum of the DNA B-form, consisting of the 273 nm major (+) CD band, the 245 nm major (-) CD band, the 219 nm minor (+) CD band...

We study nonlinear response of a dimer composed two identical Mie-resonant dielectric nanoparticles illuminated normally by circularly polarized light. develop general theory describing hybridization multipolar modes the coupled nanoparticles, and reveal nonvanishing circular dichroism (CD) in second-harmonic generation (SHG) signal enhanced resonances provided its axis is oriented under an ang...

We theoretically investigate the optical activity of three dimensional Dirac semimetals (DSMs) using circular dichroism (CD). show that DSMs in presence a magnetic field any one mirror-symmetric planes materials exhibit notable dichroic behavior. In particular, for different orientations light with respect to plane, CD type-II can detect mirror anomaly by showing sharply distinct patterns at an...

BACKGROUND It is well known that, stemming from the mutual interplay between chromophores, circular dichroism (CD) is a powerful technique to deal with structural problems for both the small organic molecule and the biopolymer. However, quantitative interpretations of the spectroscopic and structural terms that give rise to the exciton couplet are usually presented for ideal cases, or a few CD ...

Nine new compounds, namely sinularones A-I (1-9), characterized as cyclopentenone and butenolide-type analogues, were isolated from a soft coral Sinularia sp., together with a known butenolide (10). Their structures were elucidated by means of spectroscopic (IR, MS, 1D and 2D NMR, CD) analysis. The absolute configurations were determined on the basis of CD and specific rotation data in associat...