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Another advantage to examine these polyaers is that characterizations of ablated materials can be Bade possible by fluorescence spectroscopy. Fluorescence is very sensitive, and such surrounding aicroenvironaental conditions around the it -chromophore as polarity and viscosity and chroaophore aggregation can be probed. 

In the present work, we have examined poly(N-vinylcarbazole) (abbreviated hereafter as PVCz) and pyrene-doped poly(aethyl methacrylate) (PMMA) films by using a tine-resolved fluorescence spectroscopic aethod. Fluorescence spectra and their dynanic behavior of the forner fila were elucidated with a high intensity laser pulse and a streak camera, which nakes it possible to neasure dynaaics just upon laser ablation. This aethod reveals aolecular and electronic aspects of laser ablation phenomena (17). For the latter fila a laser pulse with weak intensity was used for characterizing the ablated and Basked areas. On the basis of these results, we demonstrate a high potential of fluorescence spectroscopy in aolecular studies on laser ablation and consider its mechanism. Experimental... 

This work is also notable in that Cole et al. performed detailed aggregation studies of the heme MPPIX using UV-vis and fluorescence spectroscopies to detect the formation of 71-71 hetero-metalloporphyrin assemblies under assay conditions. By employing UV-vis absorbance spectroscopy, the aggregation of porphyrin and metalloporphyrin systems may be examined. The in vitro assay system used for hemozoin... 

The rates of hydrolysis of the trifhioroacetates (201 X = H, Me) increase in a nonlinear fashion in the presence of jS-CD. Some differences in rate between the two substrates have been explained as being due to different modes of inclusion.173 The novel CDs (202) and (203) have been synthesized in 45% and 66% yields, respectively, and their complexation with various l/d amino acids have been examined. Importantly, (202) and (203) can be detected by fluorescence spectroscopy and they can recognize the size and shape but also the chirality of the amino acids.174 A /j-CD dimer with a linking bipyridyl group (204) has been synthesized and shown to bind both ends of potential substrates into two different cavities of the CD holding the substrate ester carbonyl group directly above a Cu(H) ion bound to die bipyridyl unit. This achieves... 

Steady-state fluorescence spectroscopy has also been used to study solvation processes in supercritical fluids. For example, Okada et al. (29) and Kajimoto and co-workers (30) studied intramolecular excited-state complexation (exciplex) and charge-transfer formation, respectively, in supercritical CHF3. In the latter studies, the observed spectral shift was more than expected based on the McRae theory (56,57), this was attributed to cluster formation. In other studies, Brennecke and Eckert (5,31,44,45) examined the fluorescence of pyrene in supercritical CO2, C2HSteady-state emission spectra were used to show density augmentation near the critical point. Additional studies investigated the formation of the pyrene excimer (i.e., the reaction of excited- and ground-state pyrene monomers to form the excited-state dimer). These authors concluded that the observance of the pyrene excimer in the supercritical fluid medium was a consequence of increased solute-solute interactions. 

Ultraviolet fluorescence spectroscopy has also been employed to investigate the nature of the aromatic systems in coal and in coal-derived products (Mille et al., 1990). Examination of the pyridine extracts produced data that were characteristic of compounds having three, four, or five condensed aromatic rings. However, it was not possible to obtain an estimation of the ring size within the insoluble coal matrix. 

Sometimes a thorough examination of the artwork can determine authenticity. Forgers may use colors not available during the artist s life. Brushwork, themes, and techniques can be assessed. Unusual materials make a work suspect. Also, the usual methods can be applied to detect a forgery fluorescence, spectroscopy, X-rays, neutron activation analysis, radioactive dating and, more recently, digital analysis. 

Fluorescence spectroscopy as a means of judging process conditions in a polymerization reaction has been reported [48]. The authors optimized parameters such as the reactant ratio and catalyst amount to reach the smallest variability of material properties. The samples were deposited on a 96-micro reactor array and examined with a spectro-fluorometer during the reaction. 

Many tools are available for studying the structure and dynamics of multi-molecular complexes, with NMR being perhaps the most suited to detailed examination of such complexes in solution. However, it is not yet widely appreciated that liquid chromatography can be extremely useful for the study of solution complexes even though, rigorously, it sometimes takes place not exclusively in solution but rather at an interface. Next to these techniques, UV spectroscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy, and pH titrations are also widely used for this purpose. 

In this work we utilized FTIR methods to examine the SA monolayers on flat, polar solid surfaces prepared from nonpolar solutions. We used ATR and GI FTIR measurements to characterize the material and bonding of the S A monolayers, and used transmission and ATR FTIR to monitor the dynamics of the SA adsorption process. With reference to measurements on standard Langmuir-Blodgett monolayer samples, we were able to quantify the S A kinetic results. We also used fluorescence spectroscopy of incorporated pyrene probes in S A mixed monolayer films as a simple method for the determination of the relative adsorption and thermodynamic constants. 

R. Diedericks, M. J. Camp, A. E. Wilimovsky, M. A. Haas, and R. F. Dragen, Investigations into the Adaptability of Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy to Firearms Related Examinations, AFTE Journal 6 (1974). 

Dufour, E. (2002). Examination of the molecular structure of food products using front-face fluorescence spectroscopy. American Laboratory, 34, 51-55. 

Hunter, D.B. and Bertsch, P.M., In situ examination of uranium contaminated soil particles by micro-x-ray absorption and micro-fluorescence spectroscopies, J. Radio-anal. Nucl. Chem., 234, 237, 1998. 

In other photoelectrochemical studies, the oxidation of Cr(CO)3(arene) compounds in acetonitrile was examined using the channel electrode technique (Compton et ai, 1993b,e). A combination of in situ EPR, fluorescence spectroscopy and voltammetry showed that the arene and, in some cases, CO were ejected on photolysis and the final chromium compound was either Cr(CO)3(CH3CN)3 or Cr(CO)2(CH3CN)4, which subsequently underwent a one-electron oxidation at the electrode surface. 

Analytical absorption spectroscopy in the ultraviolet and visible regions of the elechomagnetic spectrum has been widely used in pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis for quantitative purposes and, with certain limitations, for the characterisation of drugs, impurities, metabolites, and related substances. By contrast, luminescence methods, and fluorescence spectroscopy in particular, have been less widely exploited, despite the undoubted advantages of greater specificity and sensitivity commonly observed for fluorescent species. However, the wider availability of spectrofluorimeters capable of presenting corrected excitation and emission spectra, coupled with the fact that reliable fluorogenic reactions now permit non-fluorescent species to be examined fluorimetrically, has led to a renaissance of interest in fluorimetric methods in biomedical analysis. 

UV and fluorescent spectroscopy can be employed down to 190 nm because there is no solvent interference. Mass spectrometry is easy because the water provides good ionization. Flame ionization detection (FID) is of particular interest because potentially it offers a sensitive and universal detector. A number of different interfaces have been used, including heated capillaries, which have been examined by Miller and Hawthorne [62], Ingelse et al. [63], and others [64, 65], who separated a range of analytes including alcohols, amino acids, and phenols. An alternative method employing a cold nebuliza-tion of the eluent has been introduced by Bone et al. [66]. They were able to detect both aliphatic and aromatic alcohols, polymers, carbohydrates, parabens, and steroids. 

The techniques of gas chromatography (526) and fluorescence spectroscopy (527) have been employed to examine the nature of the... 

The fluorescence spectroscopy of the 2 state of coronene has been examined in the solid state, as isolated molecules, and also in van der Waals clusters 39, fluorescence of... 

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