The effect of silicon concentration and annealing temperature on terbium luminescence was investigated for thin silicon rich silicon oxide films. The structures were deposited by means of plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition. The structural properties of these films were investigated by Rutherford backscattering spectrometry, transmission electron microscopy and Raman scattering. The optic...

Emissive terbium complexes, suitable for protein conjugation, incorporating a pyrazoyl-1-aza-xanthone chromophore have been prepared; they exhibit cellular uptake and possess a much lower sensitivity to excited state quenching.

Six bidentate building blocks have been used to form a tripodal ligand with a flexible C3 symmetric spacer to direct the assembly of large octametallic clusters covalently linked to form a 1-D highly luminescent terbium tube-like polymer.

Objective: Inflammation is one of the major components of asthma. Our aim was to evaluate the effects of C. sativus extract on total and differential white blood cells (WBC) count in lung lavage fluid (LLF) of ovalbumin-sensitized rats. Materials and Methods: Forty rats were divided into five groups (n = 8 for each group) as control (C), sensitized with injection and inhalation of ovalbumin (OA...

Diffusion-enhanced fluorescence energy transfer was used to study the structure of photoreceptor membranes from bovine retinal rod outer segments. The fluorescent energy donor was Tb 3+ chelated to dipicolinate and the acceptor was the 11-cis retinal chromophore of rhodopsin in vesicles made from disc membranes. The rapid-diffusion limit for energy transfer was attained in these experiments bec...

This communication presents a new terbium(III) complex that shows the highest luminescence quantum yield among the oxygen-sensitive lanthanide complexes (Φ = 0.91 under N2, Φ = 0.054 under air).

The mechanism of quenching of the excited state of terbium and europium complexes by electron-rich reductants occurs by formation of an exciplex involving the triplet excited state of the sensitising chromophore.

1 Enantiopure, Octadentate Ligands as Sensitizers for Europium and Terbium Circularly Polarized Luminescence in Aqueous Solution Michael Seitz, Evan G. Moore, Andrew J. Ingram, Gilles Muller, Kenneth N. Raymond Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1460 and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, and Department of Chemistry, San José State Univ...

Most deoxyribozymes (DNA catalysts) require metal ions as cofactors for catalytic activity, with Mg(2+), Mn(2+), and Zn(2+) being the most represented activators. Trivalent transition-metal ions have been less frequently considered. Rare earth ions offer attractive properties for studying metal ion binding by biochemical and spectroscopic methods. Here we report the effect of lanthanide cofacto...