Application of the Quartz Crystal Microbalance to Corrosion Investigation

Author(s):  
Hejian Sun ◽  
John C. Donini ◽  
Kirk H. Michaelian ◽  
Sankara Papavinasam ◽  
R. Winston Revie

The quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) provides an extremely sensitive technique for detecting small changes in mass and viscosity on the quartz crystal surface. QCM can be used in oil, gas or water without the problems of high solution resistance. In order to use QCM to model pipeline corrosion, an iron quartz crystal electrode was prepared using an electrodeposition method. The reproducibility, effectiveness and accuracy of the iron QCM were tested in salt solution. The adsorption of amines was studied to investigate their effects on the corrosion behaviour of the iron QCM.

1987 ◽  
Vol 101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Jackson ◽  
George W. Tyndall

ABSTRACTA quartz crystal microbalance has been used to measure the rates of focused uv laser-induced deposition from the Group 6 hexacarbonyls in real time. The experimental configuration employs acwuv laser beam focused onto the microbalance crystal surface at normal incidence to deposit material by decomposition of a metal complex vapor. Simple equations are given for determining absolute deposition rates in terms of the total mass deposited per unit time. Kinetic data obtained with this system have been used to study the mechanism of laser photodeposition from Cr(CO)e, Mo(CO)6, and W(CO)é induced by a frequency-doubled argon ion laser. The rate-determining deposition step involves condensation of products formed upon single-photon dissociation of the metal carbonyls in the gas phase. Additional observations indicate that the adsorbed photoproducts undergo further photo-initiated dissociation on the substrate surface.


2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 349-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Rudd ◽  
J.T. Gallagher ◽  
D. Ron ◽  
R.J. Nichols ◽  
D.G. Fernig

Interactions between an immobilized, heparin-derived octasaccharide and growth factors have been observed using a quartz crystal microbalance-dissipation (QCM-D). This device can measure the amount of growth factors binding to the octasaccharide surface and also the change of dissipation of the surface. Dissipation is a measure of how the adhered material ‘damps’ the surface vibrations. The octasaccharides were anchored through their reducing ends by the intermediary of the alkanethiol molecule, which covalently binds to the crystal surface through the thiol group. As expected, heparin sulphate binding growth factors bound to the octasaccharide, but the change in mass of growth factor bound per unit change in dissipation is different for the different growth factors. Suggesting that the structures of the various growth factor–octasaccharide complexes are different, therefore, indicates that the change in dissipation can give insights into the structure, orientation and packing of the oligosaccharide-growth factor complexes.


2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 879-884
Author(s):  
Takahiro Sakai ◽  
Hayato Seki ◽  
Shogo Yoshida ◽  
Hayato Hori ◽  
Hisashi Suzuki ◽  
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1998 ◽  
Vol 145 (2) ◽  
pp. 492-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
James J. Kelly ◽  
K. M. Anisur Rahman ◽  
Christopher J. Durning ◽  
Alan C. West

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sin-Cih Sun ◽  
Hung-Wei Huang ◽  
Yi-Ting Lo ◽  
Min-Chieh Chuang ◽  
Yuan-Hao Howard Hsu

AbstractCardiolipin (CL), a crucial component in inner mitochondrial membranes, interacts with cytochrome c (cyt c) to form a peroxidase complex for the catalysis of CL oxidation. Such interaction is pivotal to the mitochondrial regulation of apoptosis and is affected by the redox state of cyt c. In the present study, the redox-dependent interaction of cyt c with CL was investigated through amide hydrogen/deuterium exchange coupled with mass spectrometry (HDXMS) and quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (QCM-D). Ferrous cyt c exhibited a more compact conformation compared with its ferric form, which was supported by the lower number of deuterons accumulated and the greater amplitude reduction on dissipation. Upon association with CL, ferrous cyt c resulted in a moderate increase in deuteration, whereas the ferric form caused a drastic increase of deuteration, which indicated that CL-bound ferric cyt c formed an extended conformation. These results were consistent with those of the frequency (f) − dissipation (D) experiments, which revealed that ferric cyt c yielded greater values of |ΔD/Δf| within the first minute. Further fragmentation analysis based on HDXMS indicated that the effect of CL binding was considerably different on ferric and ferrous cyt c in the C-helix and the Loop 9–24. In ferric cyt c, CL binding affected Met80 and destabilized His18 interaction with heme, which was not observed with ferrous cyt c. An interaction model was proposed to explain the aforementioned results.


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