Experimental and theoretical studies of the decomposition of new imidazole based energetic materials: Model systems

2012 ◽  
Vol 137 (11) ◽  
pp. 114303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zijun Yu ◽  
Elliot R. Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
Energetic Materials ◽  
Model Systems ◽  
Theoretical Studies ◽  
Experimental And Theoretical Studies

Biophysics of viral infectivity: matching genome length with capsid size

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 327-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elmar Nurmemmedov ◽  
Martin Castelnovo ◽  
Carlos Enrique Catalano ◽  
Alex Evilevitch
Keyword(s):  
Physical Properties ◽  
Viral Particle ◽  
Infection Process ◽  
Model Systems ◽  
Viral Capsid ◽  
Theoretical Studies ◽  
Genome Length ◽  
Viral Dna ◽  
Dsdna Viruses ◽  
Experimental And Theoretical Studies

AbstractIn this review, we discuss recent advances in biophysical virology, presenting experimental and theoretical studies on the physical properties of viruses. We focus on the double-stranded (ds) DNA bacteriophages as model systems for all of the dsDNA viruses both prokaryotic and eukaryotic. Recent studies demonstrate that the DNA packaged into a viral capsid is highly pressurized, which provides a force for the first step of passive injection of viral DNA into a bacterial cell. Moreover, specific studies on capsid strength show a strong correlation between genome length, and capsid size and robustness. The implications of these newly appreciated physical properties of a viral particle with respect to the infection process are discussed.

The Stabilizing Effect of Pre-Equilibria: A Trifluoromethyl Complex as CF2 Reservoir in Catalytic Olefin Difluorocarbenation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Louis-Goff ◽  
Huu Vinh Trinh ◽  
Eileen Chen ◽  
Arnold L. Rheingold ◽  
Christian Ehm ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Selectivity ◽  
Side Reactions ◽  
Theoretical Studies ◽  
Attractive Feature ◽  
Catalyst Recovery ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Stabilizing Effect ◽  
Experimental And Theoretical Studies

A new, efficient, catalytic difluorocarbenation of olefins to give 1,1-difluorocyclopropanes is presented. The catalyst, an organobismuth complex, uses TMSCF<sub>3</sub> as a stoichiometric difluorocarbene source. We demonstrate both the viability and robustness of this reaction over a wide range of alkenes and alkynes, including electron-poor alkenes, to generate the corresponding 1,1-difluorocyclopropanes and 1,1-difluorocyclopropenes. Ease of catalyst recovery from the reaction mixture is another attractive feature of this method. In depth experimental and theoretical studies showed that the key difluorocarbene-generating step proceeds through a bismuth non-redox synchronous mechanism generating a highly reactive free CF<sub>2</sub> in an endergonic pre-equilibrium. It is the reversibility when generating the difluorocarbene that accounts for the high selectivity, while minimizing CF<sub>2</sub>-recombination side-reactions.

Strong coupling: resonant effects

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexey V. Kavokin ◽  
Jeremy J. Baumberg ◽  
Guillaume Malpuech ◽  
Fabrice P. Laussy
Keyword(s):  
Strong Coupling ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Strong Coupling Regime ◽  
Theoretical Studies ◽  
Stimulated Scattering ◽  
Quantum Theories ◽  
Pump Probe ◽  
Exciton Polaritons ◽  
Linear Optical Properties ◽  
Experimental And Theoretical Studies

This chapter presents experimental studies performed on planar semiconductor microcavities in the strong-coupling regime. The first section reviews linear experiments performed in the 1990s that evidence the linear optical properties of cavity exciton-polaritons. The chapter is then focused on experimental and theoretical studies of resonantly excited microcavity emission. We mainly describe experimental configuations in which stimulated scattering was observed due to formation of a dynamical condensate of polaritons. Pump-probe and cw experiments are described in addition. Dressing of the polariton dispersion and bistability of the polariton system due to inter-condensate interactions are discussed. The semiclassical and the quantum theories of these effects are presented and their results analysed. The potential for realization of devices is also discussed.

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