The induced polarization of a beam of polar clusters or molecules passing through an electric or magnetic field region differs from the textbook Langevin-Debye susceptibility. This distinction, which is important for the interpretation of deflection and focusing experiments, arises because instead of acquiring thermal equilibrium in the field region, the beam ensemble typically enters the field...

The infrared-active (IR) vibrational mode of ethanol (EtOH) associated with the asymmetrical stretching of the C-C-O bond in pico-liter volumes of EtOH-water binary mixtures is calorimetrically measured using photothermal microfluidic cantilever deflection spectroscopy (PMCDS). IR absorption by the confined liquid results in wavelength dependent cantilever deflections, thus providing a compleme...

Ab initio simulations of aqueous hydroxide are performed to study the structure and polarization of water molecules in the first solvation shell. Polarization is found to depend on the configuration of the hydrogen-bond (HB) donors. In the most common case of four HB donors, the dipole moment of water molecules is much larger than those in the first shell of monovalent ions. When there are only...

Understanding the agglomeration of dust particles in complex plasmas requires knowledge of basic properties such as the net electrostatic charge and dipole moment of the dust. In this study, dust aggregates are formed from gold-coated mono-disperse spherical melamine-formaldehyde monomers in a radiofrequency (rf) argon discharge plasma. The behavior of observed dust aggregates is analyzed both ...

nanopartmles have been used as an approach to improve the pharmacodynamic and phannacokinetie propertiesof various drues. amino acids have been considered to be useful to make such nano particles because ofthocompatithe and biodegradable characteristic. the quantum mechanical method that was chosen to analyze inethio hexa peptide nano ring]. the structure of some peptide nanorrigs as well as th...

phospholipids are important for the biological lipid and are commonly used in biophysical studies.a quantumcalculation for two phospholipids dipalmitoylphosphatidylethanolamine and dipalmitoylphosphatidic acidwere performed using the abinitio software. geometry optimization structures were obtained at rhf level using3-21g, 6-31g*. these basis sets were used to understanding the effects of envir...

Classical trajectory (Monte Carlo) calculation is used to calculate collision rate constants of ion-quadrupolar molecule interactions for the H¯+C2H2 system. The method presented here takes into account the effect of the induced dipole-induced dipole potential on ion-quadrupolar molecule collision rate constants. It is also assumed that the colliding particles have a d...