Flapping viscosity probe that shows polarity-independent ratiometric fluorescence

R Kotani, H Sotome, H Okajima, S Yokoyama… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
A variety of fluorescent molecular viscosity probes have been widely used for mapping the
local viscosity in cells and for monitoring the microenvironments in materials. However, their …

Tailoring the nuclear Overhauser effect for the study of small and medium-sized molecules by solvent viscosity manipulation

P Lameiras, JM Nuzillard - Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance …, 2021 - Elsevier
The nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE) is a consequence of cross-relaxation between nuclear
spins mediated by dipolar coupling. Its sensitivity to internuclear distances has made it an …

Photodissociative modules that control dual‐emission properties in donor–π–acceptor organoborane fluorophores

M Kawashiro, T Mori, M Ito, N Ando… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Donor–π–acceptor fluorophores that consist of an electron‐donating amino group and an
electron‐accepting triarylborane moiety generally exhibit substantial solvatochromism in …

Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation of the Intrinsically Disordered Domain of the Fused in Sarcoma Protein Results in Substantial Slowing of Hydration Dynamics

CS Krevert, D Chavez, S Chatterjee… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Formation of liquid condensates plays a critical role in biology via localization of different
components or via altered hydrodynamic transport, yet the hydrogen-bonding environment …

Azobenzene photoisomerization probes cell membrane viscosity

A Magni, G Bondelli, GM Paternò, S Sardar… - Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The viscosity of cell membranes is a crucial parameter that affects the diffusion of small
molecules both across and within the lipid membrane and that is related to several diseases …

Optical transient absorption experiments reveal the failure of formal kinetics in diffusion assisted electron transfer reactions

G Angulo, A Rosspeintner, B Lang… - Physical Chemistry …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The ultimate goal of chemical kinetics is to understand why a given reaction is fast or not. To
this end it is necessary to count on robust and experimentally well tested theories. One of the …

Unraveling molecular interactions in binary liquid mixtures with time-resolved thermal-lens-spectroscopy

AK Rawat, S Chakraborty, AK Mishra… - Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
Non-contact localized laser heating-based thermal lensing has emerged as a technique for
probing the heat transport in liquids. A mode-mismatched dual-beam pump–probe …

Impact of alkyl chains, electron donor substituents and acidic group on aggregation-induced emission of carboxylic acid functionalized quinoxalines

LG de Araújo, W de Pontes Silva, CMZ Cristiano… - Journal of Molecular …, 2024 - Elsevier
We report an optical study of quinoxaline-based luminogens derived from 2, 3-bis (aryl)-
quinoxaline-6-carboxylic acid (1a, 1b, and 2) in solution and solid state. These compounds …

Excited-State Symmetry Breaking in Solvent Mixtures

E Balanikas, M Reymond-Joubin… - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
A large number of multipolar dyes undergo excited-state symmetry breaking (ESSB) in polar
media. During this process, electronic excitation, initially distributed evenly over the …

[HTML][HTML] Intramolecular charge transfer and molecular flexibility: Key parameters to be considered in the design of highly fluorescent p-phenylene vinylene derivatives

PJ Pacheco-Liñán, A Navarro, J Tolosa, M Moral… - Dyes and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The optoelectronic properties of a series of p-phenylene vinylene derivatives are studied
herein to scrutinize their relationship with the molecular flexibility of the peripheral groups …