Fluorescence anisotropy: theory and applications of rotational depolarization

A Kawski - Critical Reviews in Analytical Chemistry, 1993 - Taylor & Francis
This review article presents the principal problems of fluorescence emission anisotropy in
rigid and liquid isotropic solutions, as well as in partially ordered fluid systems (membranes) …

Correlation between the order parameter and the steady-state fluorescence anisotropy of 1, 6-diphenyl-1, 3, 5-hexatriene and an evaluation of membrane fluidity

H Pottel, W van der Meer, W Herreman - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 1983 - Elsevier
In this paper it is shown that for 1, 6-diphenyl-1, 3, 5-hexatriene there exists a simple
analytical relation between the orientational order parameter and the steady-state …

Fluorescence depolarization in liquid crystals and membrane bilayers

C Zannoni, A Arcioni, P Cavatorta - Chemistry and Physics of Lipids, 1983 - Elsevier
The paper introduces in a systematic way the concepts of order parameters and correlation
functions needed for a description of orientational ordering in a liquid crystal or a membrane …

Predicting the anchoring of liquid crystals at a solid surface: 5-cyanobiphenyl on cristobalite and glassy silica surfaces of increasing roughness

OM Roscioni, L Muccioli, RG Della Valle, A Pizzirusso… - Langmuir, 2013 - ACS Publications
We employ atomistic molecular dynamics simulations to predict the alignment and
anchoring strength of a typical nematic liquid crystal, 4-n-pentyl-4′-cyano biphenyl (5CB) …

On the rotational diffusion of asymmetric molecules in liquid crystals

R Tarroni, C Zannoni - The Journal of chemical physics, 1991 - pubs.aip.org
We present a nonperturbative solution of the rotational diffusion equation for an asymmetric
rotor reorienting in a uniaxial liquid crystal, such as a nematic, smectic A or membrane …

Lipid bilayer dynamics from simultaneous analysis of orientation and frequency dependence of deuterium spin-lattice and quadrupolar order relaxation

AA Nevzorov, TP Trouard, MF Brown - Physical Review E, 1998 - APS
Simultaneous analysis of the deuterium (2 H) NMR spin relaxation rates of lipid bilayers as a
function of both frequency and sample orientation may be decisive in evaluating different …

A theory of fluorescence depolarization in membranes

C Zannoni - Molecular Physics, 1981 - Taylor & Francis
A theory of time dependent fluorescence depolarization for a probe in a membrane vesicle
or in a poly-liquid-crystalline system is presented. General, model independent expressions …

Molecular dynamics of a model anisotropic system

C Zannoni, M Guerra - Molecular Physics, 1981 - Taylor & Francis
The molecular dynamics method has been used to study a model system of 1000 symmetric
top particles placed at the sites of a cubic lattice and interacting with the pair potential Uij=-ε …

The static and dynamic behaviour of fluorescent probe molecules in lipid bilayers

F Mulders, H Van Langen, G Van Ginkel… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 1986 - Elsevier
Angle-resolved fluorescence depolarization experiments were carried out on 1, 6-diphenyl-
1, 3, 5-hexatriene (DPH) and 1-[4-(trimethylammonium) phenyl]-6-phenyl-1, 3, 5-hexatriene …

Developments in polymer characterisation

JV Dawkins, JV Dawkins - 1978 - Springer
In Volume I the scope of polymer characterisation was defined as consisting of techniques
for the determination of molecular properties and of bulk and surface properties. The format …