Transient absorption microscopy: advances in chemical imaging of photoinduced dynamics

This article reviews the state of the art of ultrafast transient absorption microscopy, discusses current experimental concepts and highlights future challenges. The advantages of transient absorption microscopy over other micro‐spectroscopic techniques are its high optical resolution combined with high temporal resolution as well as its ability to study non‐fluorescent and weakly fluorescent molecular species and to probe excited‐state processes. In conventional transient absorption spectroscopy the spectroscopic information usually presents a spatial average over the focal spot of the typically weakly focused probe beam. Transient absorption microscopy, however, enables investigations of the excited state dynamics in individual microscopic areas of a sample. Hence, the technique does not only yield detailed morphological information based on a label‐free molecular contrast, but also gives insight into the ultrafast morphology‐dependent photoinduced processes in heterogeneous samples. Different variations of transient absorption microscopy have found a number of applications ranging from material sciences to biology, which are discussed in this review together with different setup modifications and approaches towards transient absorption spectroscopy with spatial resolution below the diffraction limit.

     

Effect of Confinement on Proton‐Transfer Reactions in Water Nanopools

Proton transfer from the photoacid 8‐hydroxy‐1,3,6‐pyrenetrisulfonic acid (HPTS) to water is studied in reverse micelles with ionic (AOT=sodium dioctyl sulfosuccinate) and non‐ionic (BRIJ‐30=polyoxyethylene(4)lauryl ether) surfactants. The dynamics are studied by probing the transient electronic absorption and transient vibrational absorption, both with sub‐picosecond resolution. The reverse micelle sizes range from approximately 1.6 to 5.5 nm in diameter. For both surfactants it is found that the rate of proton transfer decreases with decreasing reverse micelle size, regardless of surfactant. In addition, for AOT reverse micelles, a fraction of the photoacid molecules exhibit non‐radiative decay, preventing proton transfer.     

Solid-phase extraction and large-volume sample stacking with an electroosmotic flow pump in capillary electrophoresis for determination of methotrexate and its metabolites in human plasma

This paper describes approaches for large-volume sample stacking (LVSS) with an EOF pumpin CE for the determination of methotrexate (MTX) and its metabolites in human plasma. After pretreatment of plasma through a SPE cartridge, a large sample volume was loaded by hydrodynamic injection (3 psi, 70 s) into the capillary filled with phosphate buffer (70 mM, pH 6.0) containing 0.01% polyethylene oxide. Following removal of a large plug of sample matrix from the capillary using polarity switching (-25 kV), the separation of anionic analytes was subsequently performed without changing polarity again, achieving an improvement of sensitivity of around a 100-fold. The method was applied to therapeutic drug monitoring of MTX in one acute lymphoblastic leukemia patient. This study is one of very few applications showing the feasibility of LVSS in analysis of biological samples by CE.     

光谱型连流法定点检测快速反应装置的研制及评价

选用全自动组装部件，研制了液体计量泵结合分光光度法定点检测连续流动快速反应装置，并选择适当的反应体系检测了该反应装置的操作性能及测量精度。检测结果表明，该套装置具有较好的全自动操作性能和测量精度，其测量数据与文献值符合较好，对于毫秒级的快速反应的动力学研究提供了一种先进的测量仪器。     

#电渗泵流动注射系统测定水中氟

对电渗泵的原理及其在流动注射系统中的应用特点作了详细讨论，并用氟试剂分光光度法测定了自来水中氟化物含量。     

Femtosecond pump-probe measurements of solvation by hydrogen-bonding interactions.

An additional ultrafast blue shift in the transient absorption spectra of hydrogen-bonding complexes of a strong photoacid, 8-hydroxypyrene 1,3,6-trisdimethylsulfonamide (HPTA), over the solvation response of the uncomplexed HPTA and also over that of the methoxy derivative of the photoacid (MPTA) in the presence of the hydrogen-bonding base was observed on optical excitation of the photoacid. The additional 55 +/- 10 fs solvation response was found to be about 35 % and 19% of the total C(t) of HPTA in dichloromethane (DCM) when it was hydrogen-bonded to dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) and dioxane, respectively, and about 29% of the total C(t) of HPTA in dichloroethane (DCE) when it was hydrogen-bonded to DMSO. We have assigned this additional dynamic spectral shift to a transient change in the hydrogen bond (O-H...O) that links HPTA to the complexing base, after the electronic excitation of the photoacid.     

Electroosmotic Driving Liquid Using Nanosilica Packed Column

The packed-bed electroosmotic pump (p-EOP) can manipulate liquid with pressure as high as 50 MPa and micro flowrate ranging from several nL/ min to several μL/min1-3. The p-EOP is matching to micro systems and suitable for developing chip liquid chromatography/electrochromatography for proteomics and high throughput HPLC for drug discovery4-6. There are some efforts to improve the performance p-EOP7-8 recently. In this paper, the nanosilica was chosen as the electroosmotic carrier to i…     

小型低压电渗输液泵的研究

设计了一种小型低压电渗泵。该泵主要由直流电源、填充电渗柱、铂电极和压力传感器等构成。电渗柱的内部尺寸为6×12 mm,柱内填充45μm的多孔硅胶。工作时,泵头直接浸入被输送的液体中进行输液。研究了电压和电流对输出压强和流量的影响:压强和电压及电流均成良好的线性;而在250 V以上,流量增加变快,明显偏离线性。对去离子水和0.5 mmol/L的KC l溶液,该泵可产生0~1.6 atm的输出压力和每分钟几μL至几百μL的输出流量。该泵结构简单,可以不间断输液一星期以上,能用于微流控分析、流动注射分析及微反应输液等领域。     

Waste heat driven solid sorption coolers containing heat pipes for thermo control

This paper provides a focus on the R&D of solid sorption coolers and heat pumps made in the Luikov Heat & Mass Transfer Institute (CIS Countries Association Heat Pipes) under Thermacore, Inc. Agreement.Commercial and space applications of sorbent systems offer an attractive alternative to compression systems and liquid sorption systems for cooling, heating and air conditioning.MgA zeolites solid sorption systems are analyzed. Some new results are presented.Solid sorption heat pump technology utilizing heat pipe heat recovery with a condensing/evaporating refrigerant holds considerable promise for bivariant (space and domestic) applications due to the variable temperature and variable load capabilities of such machines.     

Engineered Bacteriorhodopsin May Induce Lung Cancer Cell Cycle Arrest and Suppress Their Proliferation and Migration

Highly expressible bacteriorhodopsin (HEBR) is a light-triggered protein (optogenetic protein) that has seven transmembrane regions with retinal bound as their chromophore to sense light. HEBR has controllable photochemical properties and regulates activity on proton pumping. In this study, we generated HEBR protein and incubated with lung cancer cell lines (A549 and H1299) to evaluate if there was a growth-inhibitory effect with or without light illumination. The data revealed that the HEBR protein suppressed cell proliferation and induced the G₀/G₁ cell cycle arrest without light illumination. Moreover, the migration abilities of A549 and H1299 cells were reduced by ~17% and ~31% after incubation with HEBR (40 μg/mL) for 4 h. The Snail-1 gene expression level of the A549 cells was significantly downregulated by ~50% after the treatment of HEBR. In addition, HEBR significantly inhibited the gene expression of Sox-2 and Oct-4 in H1299 cells. These results suggested that the HEBR protein may inhibit cell proliferation and cell cycle progression of lung cancer cells, reduce their migration activity, and suppress some stemness-related genes. These findings also suggested the potential of HEBR protein to regulate the growth and migration of tumor cells, which may offer the possibility for an anticancer drug.