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The energy barrier of this reaction is 72.3 kJ/mol, and its reaction rate coefficient is about 2.742 s-1 M-1. 1O2 significantly promotes photoinduced oxidation of fatty alcohols and VOC formation through hydrogen abstraction, which provides a new insight into the interfacial photoreaction.The photophysical properties of fluorescent proteins, including phototransformable variants used in advanced microscopy applications, are influenced by the environmental conditions in which they are expressed and used. Rational design of improved fluorescent protein markers requires a better understanding of these environmental effects. We demonstrate here that solution NMR spectroscopy can detect subtle changes in the chemical structure, conformation, and dynamics of the photoactive chromophore moiety with atomic resolution, providing such mechanistic information. Studying rsFolder, a reversibly switchable green fluorescent protein, we have identified four distinct configurations of its p-HBI chromophore, corresponding to the cis and trans isomers, with each one either protonated (neutral) or deprotonated (anionic) at the benzylidene ring. The relative populations and interconversion kinetics of these chromophore species depend on sample pH and buffer composition that alter in a complex way the strength of H-bonds that contribute in stabilizing the chromophore within the protein scaffold. We show in particular the important role of histidine-149 in stabilizing the neutral trans chromophore at intermediate pH values, leading to ground-state cis-trans isomerization with a peculiar pH dependence. We discuss the potential implications of our findings on the pH dependence of the photoswitching contrast, a critical parameter in nanoscopy applications.A much stronger interfacial gating effect was observed in the graphene/HfO2/Si photodetector when compared with that in the graphene/SiO2/Si photodetector. We found that this improvement was due to the higher interface state density at the HfO2/Si interface and the higher dielectric constant of the HfO2 layer. The photoresponsivity of the graphene/HfO2/Si photodetector is as high as 45.8 A W-1. compound library chemical Germanium and amorphous MoS2 (a-MoS2) were used to prepare graphene/HfO2/Ge and graphene/HfO2/a-MoS2 photodetectors, further demonstrating the high efficiency of the interfacial gating mechanism for photodetection. Because of the 0.196 eV bandgap of a-MoS2, which was verified in our previous report, the graphene/HfO2/a-MoS2 photodetector realized ultrabroadband photodetection over the range from 473 nm (visible) to 2712 nm (mid-infrared) at room temperature with photoresponsivity as high as 5.36 A W-1 and response time as fast as 68 μs, which represent significant improvements from the corresponding properties of the pure a-MoS2 photodetectors in our previous report and are comparable with those of state-of-the-art broadband photodetectors. By taking full advantage of the interfacial gating mechanism, a fast response, high photoresponsivity and ultrabroadband photodetection were achieved simultaneously. These interfacial gated graphene photodetectors also offer simple fabrication and full semiconductor process compatibility. The advantages described here indicate that the proposed photodetectors have significant potential for use in electronic and optoelectronic applications and offer a new path toward the development of ultrabroadband photodetectors.Nonspecific protein adsorption-resistant materials, the so-called nonfouling materials, are crucial biomaterials in biomedical applications. Up-to-date, little attention was paid to the biodegradability of these materials. In this work, nonfouling zwitterionic copolymerized peptides composed of the N-l-glumatyl-l-lysine dimer (EK) and δ-l-lysinyl-l-glutamic acid dimer (E-K, glutamic acid with the lysine side chain) at various ratios were synthesized to investigate the enzymatic degradation rate. Two types of proteases (trypsin and alkaline protease), which represent a site-specific and less site-specific cleavage protease, respectively, were used to demonstrate the adjustable degradability by tracking the molecular weight (Mw) at different digestion times. Results showed that higher compositions of the E-K dimer lead to slower degradation rates by both proteases and larger fragments after 120 min digestion. With the composition of the E-K dimer over 50%, the degradation of copolymerized peptides by both proteases becomes very slow. This indicated that the bulky lysinyl side chain on E-K can alter the enzymolysis process for adjusting the enzymatic degradability of the newly synthesized zwitterionic copolymerized peptides, which could be promising candidates for biomedical applications in vivo.The asymmetric reduction of aromatic α-dehydroamino acid esters with water as the hydrogen source was developed by a Rh/Cu co-catalytic system. The reaction tolerates various functional groups, providing a valuable synthetic tool to access chiral α-amino acid esters readily. Moreover, the present methodology also was applied in the cost-effective and easy to handle preparation of chiral deuterated α-amino esters by using D2O.Oshimalides A (1) and B (2) were isolated from a Luffariella sp. marine sponge. The absolute configurations of the stereogenic centers in the cyclohexenone ring were determined by the modified Mosher's analysis of the reduction product. The absolute configuration of the stereogenic center in the dihydropyran ring was assigned by analysis of the 1H NMR data of the vicinal diols which were prepared by AD-mix reagents stereoselectively.Wavelength and spatially resolved imaging and 2D plasma chemical modeling methods have been used to study the emission from electronically excited C2 radicals in microwave-activated dilute methane/hydrogen gas mixtures under processing conditions relevant to the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of diamond. Obvious differences in the spatial distributions of the much-studied C2(d3Πg-a3Πu) Swan band emission and the little-studied, higher-energy C2(C1Πg-A1Πu) emission are rationalized by invoking a chemiluminescent (CL) reactive source, most probably involving collisions between H atoms and C2H radicals, that acts in tandem with the widely recognized electron impact excitation source term. The CL source is relatively much more important for forming C2(d) state radicals and is deduced to account for >40% of C2(d) production in the hot plasma core under base operating conditions, which should encourage caution when estimating electron or gas temperatures from C2 Swan band emission measurements. Studies at higher pressures (p ≈ 400 Torr) offer new insights into the plasma constriction that hampers efforts to achieve higher diamond CVD rates by using higher processing pressures.
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