Optical properties and electronic structure of methylammonium iodocuprate as an X-ray scintillator

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Adaptive stabilized interferometer with laser diode

We describe a diode laser interferometer with an electronic adaptive system of fringe pattern stabilization and vibrations suppression. The interferometer allows to obtain up to four high-quality images with relative phase shifts. Also an algorithm for fringe pattern processing has been proposed.     

Estimation of uncertainty in electrochemical amperometric measurement of dissolved oxygen concentration

A procedure for the estimation of measurement uncertainty of dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration measurement based on the ISO approach is presented. It is based on a mathematical model that involves 14 input parameters. The uncertainty of DO concentration strongly depends on changes in experimental details (temperature difference between calibration and measurement, the time interval between calibration and measurement, etc.). The relative measurement uncertainty is, however, practically independent of the DO concentration itself. The uncertainty is the lowest if the calibration and the measurement are done at the same temperature and on the same day. A calculation tool is provided (in the form of a GUM Workbench file) for practitioners that can be used for uncertainty calculation of DO concentrations at very different experimental conditions.Electronic Supplementary Material The uncertainty calculation example is available as a GUM Workbench calculation file C_O2_meas.smu (GUM Workbench ver. 1.3.3, Metrodata GmbH) together with its data file Input_values.xls (MS Excel 97). For those users who do not have GUM Workbench, the full report of the GUM Workbench calculation is available as a PDF file C_O2_meas.pdf. This material is available via the Internet at .     

On the existence of optimal affine methods for approximating linear functionals

The existence of an optimal affine method using linear information is established for the approximation of a linear functional on a convex set. This is a generalization of a result of S. A. Smolyak (“On Optimal Restoration of Functions and Functionals of Them,” Candidate Dissertation, Moscow State University, 1965).     

Straightforward one-pot synthesis of benzofuroxans from o-halonitrobenzenes in ionic liquids

Treatment of o-halonitrobenzenes with sodium azide in a [empyrr][BF4]/Bu4NBr/H2O system gives benzofuroxans in high yields, with the recovery and reuse of the ionic liquid for at least ten times.     

Predicting the DNA sequence dependence of nanopore ion current using atomic-resolution Brownian dynamics

It has become possible to distinguish DNA molecules of different nucleotide sequences by measuring ion current passing through a narrow pore containing DNA. To assist experimentalists in interpreting the results of such measurements and to improve the DNA sequence detection method, we have developed a computational approach that has both the atomic-scale accuracy and the computational efficiency required to predict DNA sequence-specific differences in the nanopore ion current. In our Brownian dynamics method, the interaction between the ions and DNA is described by three-dimensional potential of mean force maps determined to a 0.03 nm resolution from all-atom molecular dynamics simulations. While this atomic-resolution Brownian dynamics method produces results with orders of magnitude less computational effort than all-atom molecular dynamics requires, we show here that the ion distributions and ion currents predicted by the two methods agree. Finally, using our Brownian dynamics method, we find that a small change in the sequence of DNA within a pore can cause a large change in the ion current, and validate this result with all-atom molecular dynamics.     

Digital Colorimetry of Indicator Test-Systems Using a Smartphone and Chemometric Analysis in Determination of Quinolones in Pharmaceuticals

Journal of Applied Spectroscopy - A combined approach was developed for the identification and determination of quinolone antibiotics in pharmaceuticals using solid-state fluorescence digital...