Over 2100 induction time experiments were carried out for the medium-sized, antipsychotic drug molecule, risperidone in seven different organic solvents. To reach the same induction time the required driving force increases in the order: cumene, toluene, acetone, ethyl acetate, methanol, propanol, and butanol, which reasonably well correlates to the interfacial energies as determined within cla...

1. Conductivity and u.v. and visible spectroscopic techniques were used to investigate the solution structure of the prosthetic group of the ferric haemoproteins (ferrihaem) in dimethyl sulphoxide, NN-dimethylacetamide, NN-dimethylformamide and sulpholane, and certain of their aqueous mixtures. 2. In neutral or acid dimethyl sulphoxide, chlorohaemin is monomeric and completely dissociated into ...

Solute-solvent interactions having chemically interesting consequences manifest themselves in many spectroscopic measurements. A study of such interactions requires the ability to perform dilute gas phase measurements that can serve as a reference standard for the optical properties of the "isolated" solute molecule. However, vapor phase measurements are not always feasible; hence, the concept ...

We study polymer translocation through a nanopore subject to conformational differences created by putting two different solvents at the cis and trans compartments using Langevin dynamics in three dimensions (3D). Initially a fraction of the chain is placed in a good solvent at the cis side and the rest of the chain at the trans side is immersed in a bad solvent where it forms a globule. We stu...

Melittin, a cationic hemolytic peptide, is intrinsically fluorescent due to the presence of a single functionally important tryptophan residue. We have previously shown that the sole tryptophan of melittin is localized in a motionally restricted environment in the membrane interface. We have monitored the effect of ionic strength on the organization and dynamics of membrane-bound melittin utili...

Swelling behavior of gelatin hydrogels prepared in different concentration of NaCl suspended in ethanol-water marginal solvent was studied at room temperature (20 0 C). The swelling ratio was measured by measuring the change in the mass of the gel to the original gel mass. It was found that the gel containing 0.01M NaCl shows more swelling than the normal gel without salt which infer that the s...

We report calculated substantial enhancement of the second-harmonic generation (SHG) in cuprous oxide crystals, resonantly hybridized with an appropriate organic material (DCM2:CA:PS 'solid state solvent'). The quadrupole origin of the inorganic part of the quadrupole-dipole hybrid provides inversion symmetry breaking and the organic part contributes to the oscillator strength of the hybrid. We...

In this work, biphenyl and biphenyl oxide were extracted by direct single drop microextraction (direct-SDME) and analyzed by gas chromatography flame ionization detection. The extraction occurred by suspending a 7 μL drop of toluene (as extracting solvent) containing acetonaphton (as internal standard) from the tip of a microsyringe in direct-SDME, respectively. The effect of different paramete...

A maximum of 91% recovery of interfacial shear strength (IFSS) is achieved for carbon fiber/epoxy interfaces functionalized with capsules containing reactive epoxy resin and ethyl phenyl acetate (EPA). We find a binder is necessary to improve the retention of capsules on the carbon fiber surface. Two different methods for applying the binder to the carbon fiber surface are investigated. Healing...