The use of coumarins as environmentally-sensitive fluorescent probes of heterogeneous inclusion systems

BD Wagner - Molecules, 2009 - mdpi.com
Coumarins, as a family of molecules, exhibit a wide range of fluorescence emission
properties. In many cases, this fluorescence is extremely sensitive to the local environment …

Dynamics of individual single-walled carbon nanotubes in water by real-time visualization

R Duggal, M Pasquali - Physical Review Letters, 2006 - APS
Individual single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) in aqueous suspension are visualized
directly by fluorescence video microscopy. The fluorescent tagging is simple, biocompatible …

A molecular dynamics investigation of structure and dynamics of SDS and SDBS micelles

F Palazzesi, M Calvaresi, F Zerbetto - Soft Matter, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate (SDSB) is a major constituent of some synthetic
detergents with billions of kilograms produced and dispersed in the environment annually. It …

A comparative study of the influence of sugars sucrose, trehalose, and maltose on the hydration and diffusion of DMPC lipid bilayer at complete hydration …

A Roy, R Dutta, N Kundu, D Banik, N Sarkar - Langmuir, 2016 - ACS Publications
It is well-known that sugars protect membrane structures against fusion and leakage. Here,
we have investigated the interaction between different sugars (sucrose, trehalose, and …

Fluorescence probing of interior, interfacial, and exterior regions in solution aggregates of poly (ethylene oxide)− poly (propylene oxide)− poly (ethylene oxide) triblock …

CD Grant, MR DeRitter, KE Steege, TA Fadeeva… - Langmuir, 2005 - ACS Publications
Fluorescence spectroscopy is used to probe local environments within regions of different
polarity and hydrophobicity in aqueous aggregates of PEO109− PPO41− PEO109 triblock …

Molecular dynamics simulation study of sodium dodecyl sulfate micelle: Water penetration and sodium dodecyl sulfate dissociation

BJ Chun, JI Choi, SS Jang - Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and …, 2015 - Elsevier
We investigate a micelle consisting of 60 sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) molecules in water
phase using molecular dynamics simulation method. The dimension of the micelle is …

Excited-state intramolecular hydrogen atom transfer of curcumin in surfactant micelles

R Adhikary, PJ Carlson, TW Kee… - The Journal of Physical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Femtosecond fluorescence upconversion experiments were performed on the naturally
occurring medicinal pigment, curcumin, in anionic, cationic, and neutral micelles. In our …

Solvation dynamics in reverse micelles: The role of headgroup− solute interactions

J Faeder, BM Ladanyi - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2005 - ACS Publications
We present molecular dynamics simulation results for solvation dynamics in the water pool
of anionic-surfactant reverse micelles (RMs) of varying water content, w 0. The model RMs …

Fluorescence anisotropy decay and solvation dynamics in a nanocavity: Coumarin 153 in methyl β-cyclodextrins

P Sen, D Roy, SK Mondal, K Sahu… - The Journal of …, 2005 - ACS Publications
Fluorescence anisotropy decay and solvation dynamics of coumarin 153 (C153) are studied
in dimethyl β-cyclodextrin (DIMEB) and trimethyl β-cyclodextrin (TRIMEB) nanocavity in …

Microviscosity in Multiple Regions of Complex Aqueous Solutions of Poly (ethylene oxide)− Poly (propylene oxide)− Poly (ethylene oxide)

CD Grant, KE Steege, MR Bunagan… - The Journal of Physical …, 2005 - ACS Publications
Aqueous poly (ethylene oxide)− poly (propylene oxide)− poly (ethylene oxide)(PEO109−
PPO41− PEO109) copolymers are nonionic surfactants that self-organize to form aggregate …