Diffusion-viscometric analysis and conformational characteristics of sodium polystyrenesulfonate molecules

Samples of sodium polystyrenesulfonate of molecular weights varying in a 20-fold range were synthesized. The hydrodynamic behavior of the samples was studied in a 0.2 M NaCl solution in which the initial polyelectrolyte effects are suppressed. Relationships between the molecular weight and the translational friction coefficient and intrinsic viscosity were obtained. The theory describing the hydrodynamic behavior of wormlike chains with taking into account both the percolation effects and the excluded-volume effects was applied to estimation of the length of the statistical segment and the cross section of the sodium polystyrenesulfonate molecules in 0.2 M NaCl solution.     

The Condition of Metal Complexes of Tetraanthraquinoneporphyrazines in Solutions

Types of dimers of aluminum and cobalt complexes of tetraanthraquinoneporphyrazines were identified. Thermodynamic characteristics of dissociation of the dimers in aqueous media were obtained. The kinetics of the deactivation of the triplet state of the aluminum complexes of sulfonated phthalocyanine and tetraanthraquinoneporphyrazine was studied.

     

Effect of pH on Albumin Binding with Hydrophobic Porphyrins

The behavior of bovine serum albumin as a function of the pH of the medium and the presence in the test systems of symmetrical and asymmetrical hydrophobic porphyrins was investigated. It was established that 4-[(tert-butoxycarbonylamino)acetamido]phenyl group favors stronger protein binding to porphyrin, and this effect enhances in an alkaline medium. Solubilization of protein by porphyrins leads to the fact that the particles are spherical in solution, the hydrodynamic radius of the protein globule reduced in an alkaline medium but in neutral medium, in contrast, increases. By IR spectroscopy it was shown that beta-structuring and the proportion of disordered coils of the polypeptide chain in an alkaline medium increases, because the complexability of the protein towards porphyrin is changes.

     

Coherent and Incoherent Contributions to the Damping of Cyclotron Magnetoplasma Resonance for Two-Dimensional Electrons

The spectrum of resonant microwave absorption for a two-dimensional electron disk is studied by the optical detection technique. The dependence of the width of cyclotron magnetoplasma resonance on the electron density and on the size of the two-dimensional electron system is analyzed. The contributions of the coherent radiative and incoherent collision mechanisms to the relaxation of magnetoplasma excitations are measured. It is demonstrated that the ratio of the length of the electromagnetic wave and the lateral size of the twodimensional electron system is an important parameter determining the width of the resonance.     

Conformational and hydrodynamic properties of the homopolymer of 2-deoxy-2-methacrylamido-D-glucose and its copolymers with acrylic acid and methacrylic acid

Hydrodynamic properties of the homologous series of the homopolymer 2-deoxy-2-methacryla-mido-D-glucose and the copolymers of 2-deoxy-2-methacrylamido-D-glucose with unsaturated acids in 0.2 M NaCl are studied via static and dynamic light scattering, viscometry, refractometry, and translational diffusion. The copolymers synthesized via the free-radical copolymerization of 2-deoxy-2-methacrylamido-D-glucose with acrylic acid or methacrylic acid contain ～20 mol % acid units. At this amount of acid units, the equilibrium rigidity of copolymer chains corresponds to that of homopolymer chains. The copolymers are distinguished by the hydrodynamic characteristics of molecules. The copolymer with methacrylic acid is similar to the homopolymer, whereas the copolymer with acrylic acid features substantially different parameters of relationships relating the hydrodynamic characteristics of homologs to their molecular masses.     

Molecular and conformational properties of comb-like polymers with ionically bound side chains studied in organic solvent

Conformational and dynamo-optical properties of a homologous series of poly(cetyltrimethylammonium 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulfonates) with molecular masses ranging from 80 to 700?kDa were studied in chloroform solutions by viscometry, dynamic light scattering, sedimentation, and flow birefringence. The Mark–Kuhn–Houwink Equations for this polymer in chloroform were obtained; the values of hydrodynamic diameter and the Kuhn segment length as well as the value of intrinsic anisotropy of polarizability of the monomer unit were defined.     

Effect of a displaced atom on a bulk surface topography induced by ion beam irradiation

The formation of a ripple topography on the surface of an amorphous solid at a small (subcritical) incidence angle of ions was studied by the statistical tests method. It was found that a pattern is formed if the sputtering of atoms in the uppermost layer of the target is taken into account along with the processes occurring in the bulk. In particular, the movement of the atoms displaced during the development of a cascade of impacts must be considered for the formation of a ripple topography with crests and valleys oriented along the beam projection onto the target surface.