Long correlation time, temperature

Naturally, very long T,c values are expected for solids as viewed from the expected correlation time at the low temperature side of the T c minimum (0.1-0.2 s) as shown in Figure 1. Indeed, their values turns out to be the order of 10-30 s for carbon sites in the absence of internal fluctuations as in polysaccharides such as (1 — 3)-p-D-glucan and (1 —> 3)-p-D-xylan,46 8 fibrous proteins such as collagen49 and silk fibroin,50 free and metal-complexed ionophores,51 or in some instances up to 1000 s as in crystalline polyethylene.52... 

There has been considerable interest in using fluorescence anisotropy to detect multiple environments in membranes as with fluorescence lifetimes (see above). For example, if a fluorophore is located in two environments with long and short lifetimes, then the fluorescence anisotropy decay process at longer times after excitation will be dominated by the long-lived fluorescent species. This occurs with parinaric acids, and this situation has been explored for a number of theoretical cases. 60 A similar situation has been found for DPH in two-phase lipid systems by collecting anisotropy decay-associated spectra at early and late times after excitation. 61 Evidence was found for more than one rotational environment in vesicles of a single lipid of it is at the phase transition temperature. It is important to identify systems showing associated anisotropy decays with more than one correlation time, each of... 

Chromium(III) has a ground state in pseudo-octahedral symmetry. The absence of low-lying excited states excludes fast electron relaxation, which is in fact of the order of 10 -10 ° s. The main electron relaxation mechanism is ascribed to the modulation of transient ZFS. Figure 18 shows the NMRD profiles of hexaaqua chromium(III) at different temperatures (62). The position of the first dispersion, in the 333 K profile, indicates a correlation time of 5 X 10 ° s. Since it is too long to be the reorientational time and too fast to be the water proton lifetime, it must correspond to the electron relaxation time, and such a dispersion must be due to contact relaxation. The high field dispersion is the oos dispersion due to dipolar relaxation, modulated by the reorientational correlation time = 3 x 10 s. According to the Stokes-Einstein law, increases with decreasing temperature, and... 

D. Axelson These spectra were obtained at 57.9 MHz, but that s not the problem. We can measure correlation times regardless of the frequency. The correlation time at the glass temperature is very long. From a measurement of the correlation time we should be able to tell whether it is a true glass. In all these cases the correlation times are six to nine orders of magnitude lower than can possibly exist in a glass. For this reason I think the correlation between the NMR measurement and dielectric relaxation and dynamic mechanical do not relate one to one because of the frequency effects in the other measurements. 

Reticulum ATPase [105,106], Owing to the long-lived nature of the triplet state, Eosin derivatives are suitable to study protein dynamics in the microsecond-millisecond range. Rotational correlation times are obtained by monitoring the time-dependent anisotropy of the probe s phosphorescence [107-112] and/or the recovery of the ground state absorption [113— 118] or fluorescence [119-122], The decay of the anisotropy allows determination of the mobility of the protein chain that cover the binding site and the rotational diffusion of the protein, the latter being a function of the size and shape of the protein, the viscosity of the medium, and the temperature. 

Vanadium (IV) is a d1 ion. The electron relaxation times are long and high resolution NMR is hardly performed. The NMRD profiles of V0(H20)5+ at different temperatures are shown in Fig. 5.50 [139]. The first dispersion in the profiles is ascribed to the contact relaxation and corresponds to an electron relaxation time of about 5 x 10-10 s (Table 5.6), the second to the dipolar relaxation and corresponds to the rotational correlation time of about 5 x 10-11 s. The value of the correlation time connected to the first dispersion cannot be... 

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