Correlation spectroscopy,

Correlation spectroscopy is based on the correlation between the measured frequency spectrum iS( u) of the photodetector output and the frequency spectrum I (co) of the incident light intensity. This light may be the direct radiation of a laser or the 

Correlations in the fluorescence of molecules excited by pulsed or cw lasers are often measured, since these provide information on the dynamics of molecular processes. This branch of fluorescence correlation spectroscopy has undergone rapid development [932] because of its many advantages compared to conventional spectroscopy for instance its wide dynamic range, covering rates from ps to s . This will be discussed in Sect. 7.12.4. 

Correlation spectroscopy is based on the correlation between the measured frequency spectrum S(co) of the photodetector output and the frequency spectrum I((jo) of the incident light intensity. This light may be the direct radiation of a laser or the light scattered by moving particles, such as molecules, dust particles, or microbes (homodyne spectroscopy). In many cases the direct laser light and the scattered light are superimposed on the photodetector, and the beat spectrum of the coherent superposition is detected (heterodyne spectroscopy) [12.81,12.82]. 

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The scattering techniques, dynamic light scattering or photon correlation spectroscopy involve measurement of the fluctuations in light intensity due to density fluctuations in the sample, in this case from the capillary wave motion. The light scattered from thermal capillary waves contains two observables. The Doppler-shifted peak propagates at a rate such that its frequency follows Eq. IV-28 and... 

Braunschweiler L and Ernst R R 1983 Coherence transfer by isotropic mixing application to proton correlation spectroscopy J. Magn. Reson. 53 521 -8... 

Dunn C M, Robinson B FI and Leng F J 1990 Photon-correlation spectroscopy applied to the size characterization of water-in-oil microemulstion systems stabilized by aerosol-OT effect of change in the counterion Spectrochim. Acta. A 46 1017... 

Zulauf M and Eicke FI 1979 Inverted micelles and microemulsions in the ternary system Fl20/aerosol-OT-isoctane as studied by photon correlation spectroscopy J. Phys. Chem. 83 480... 

One kind of 2D NMR is called COSY, which stands for correlated spectroscopy With a COSY spectrum you can determine by inspection which signals correspond to spin coupled protons Identifying coupling relationships is a valuable aid to establishing a molecule s connectivity... 

Heteronuclear chemical shift-correlated spectroscopy, commonly called H-X COSY or HETCOR has, as the name implies, different and F frequencies. The experiment uses polarization transfer from the nuclei to the C or X nuclei which increases the SNR. Additionally, the repetition rate can be set to 1—3 of the rather than the longer C. Using the standard C COSY, the ampHtude of the C signals are modulated by the... 

Eor a macromolecule such as a large protein, the steps in characterization involve, first, identification of the spin systems present, using correlated spectroscopy, and identification of neighboring amino acids. The long range noes are then assigned, and three bond coupling constants ate deterrnined. 

Photon Correlation Spectroscopy. Photon correlation spectroscopy (pcs), also commonly referred to as quasi-elastic light scattering (qels) or dynamic light scattering (dls), is a technique in which the size of submicrometer particles dispersed in a Hquid medium is deduced from the random movement caused by Brownian diffusion motion. This technique has been used for a wide variety of materials (60—62). 

R. Pecora, ed.. Dynamic Eight S cattering Applications of Photon Correlation Spectroscopy, Plenum Press, New York, 1985. 

Zeta potential Photon correlation Spectroscopy Zeta Plus, Micromeretics, Zeta sizer Malvern, Nicomp, Brookhaven, Goulter, Photol 0.001-30 im 0.1-1 lm... 

COSY Correlated spectroscopy, two-dimensional shift correlations via spin-spin coupling, homonuclear (e.g. HH) or heteronuclear (e.g. CH)... 

TOCSY Total correlation spectroscopy, in the homonuclear COSY format, e.g. HH TOCSY traces out all proton-proton coimectivities of a partial structure in addition to the coimectivities (V, V, V, J) as detected by HH COSY... 

A very similar effect of the surface concentration on the conformation of adsorbed macromolecules was observed by Cohen Stuart et al. [25] who studied the diffusion of the polystyrene latex particles in aqueous solutions of PEO by photon-correlation spectroscopy. The thickness of the hydrodynamic layer 8 (nm) calculated from the loss of the particle diffusivity was low at low coverage but showed a steep increase as the adsorbed amount exceeded a certain threshold. Concretely, 8 increased from 40 to 170 nm when the surface concentration of PEO rose from 1.0 to 1.5 mg/m2. This character of the dependence is consistent with the calculations made by the authors [25] according to the theory developed by Scheutjens and Fleer [10,12] which predicts a similar variation of the hydrodynamic layer thickness of adsorbed polymer with coverage. The dominant contribution to this thickness comes from long tails which extend far into the solution. 

Photochemical cage 80, 82 Photon-correlation spectroscopy 141 Photoresponsive polyelectrolytes 54... 

Screening of a compound library to detect compounds that bind to the active site of the protein by correlation spectroscopy. 

Another largely unexplored area is the change of dynamics due to the influence of the surface. The dynamic behavior of a latex suspension as a model system for Brownian particles is determined by photon correlation spectroscopy in evanescent wave geometry [130] and reported to differ strongly from the bulk. Little information is available on surface motion and relaxation phenomena of polymers [10, 131]. The softening at the surface of polymer thin films is measured by a mechanical nano-indentation technique [132], where the applied force and the path during the penetration of a thin needle into the surface is carefully determined. Thus the structure, conformation and dynamics of polymer molecules at the free surface is still very much unexplored and only few specific examples have been reported in the literature. 

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