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Lipid Nanodomains Change Ion Channel Function

August 22, 2017
Author(s)
Michael NMN Weinrich, David Worcester, Sergey M. Bezrukov
Signaling proteins and neurotransmitter receptors associate with cholesterol-rich fractions of cell membranes--lipid rafts. The different lipid environment in rafts can modulate protein function, but evidence for modulation of ion channels is lacking. Here

Acid-Induced Assembly of a Reconstituted Silk Protein System

August 10, 2017
Author(s)
A. Pasha Tabatabai, Kathleen Weigandt, Daniel L. Blair
The chemical reconstitution of silk cocoons into stable aqueous suspensions allows for the creation of new classes of strong, biocompatible, and biodegradable silk materials. The addition of 8 mM hydrochloric acid to a reconstituted silk solution induces

Phase stability and lithium loading capacity in a liquid scintillation cocktail

August 2, 2017
Author(s)
Denis E. Bergeron, Mark A. Tyra, Hans P. Mumm
Liquid scintillation cocktails loaded with neutron capture agents such as 6Li are used in both neutron and neutrino detectors. For detectors designed to operate over extended timespans, long-term stability can be a concern. We demonstrate the

Anisotropy, Tension-Compression Asymmetry and Texture Evolution of a Rare-Earth-Containing Magnesium Alloy Sheet, ZEK100, at Different Strain Rates and Temperatures: Experiments and Modeling

August 1, 2017
Author(s)
Saadi A. Habib, Akhtar S. Khan, Thomas H. Gnaupel-Herold, Jeffrey T. Lloyd, Scott E. Schoenfeld
Mechanical responses and texture evolution of rare earth containing magnesium alloy, ZEK100, sheet are measured under uniaxial (tension-compression) loadings along the rolling direction (RD), 45° to rolling direction (DD), transverse direction (TD) and

Dynamical Transition of Collective Motions in Dry Proteins

July 28, 2017
Author(s)
Zhuo Liu, Juan Huang, Madhu Sudan Tyagi, Hugh O'Neill, Qiu Zhang, Eugene Mamontov, NItin Jain, Yujie Wang, Jie Zhang, Jeremy C. Smith, Liang Hong
Water is widely assumed to be essential for protein dynamics and function. In particular, the well-documented "dynamical" transition at 200 K detected in hydrogenated proteins by incoherent neutron scattering, at which the protein changes from a rigid, non

Nanoscopic Dynamics of Bicontinuous Microemulsions: Effect of Membrane-Associated Protein

July 28, 2017
Author(s)
V. K. Sharma, Douglas G. Hayes, Volker S. Urban, Hugh M. O'Neill, Madhu Sudan Tyagi, Eugene Mamontov
Bicontinous Microemulsions (BυE)generally consist of nanodomains formed by surfactant in a mixture of water and oil at nearly equal proportions and are potential candidates for the solubilization and purification of membrane proteins. Here we present the

Switching Between Giant Positive and Negative Thermal Expansions of a YFe(CN) 6 -Based Prussian Blue Analogue Induced by Guest Species

July 24, 2017
Author(s)
Qilong Gao, Jun Chen, Qiang Sun, Dahu Chang, Qingzhen Huang, Hui Wu, Andrea Sanson, Ruggero Milazzo, He Zhu, Qiang Li, Zhanning Liu, Jinxia Deng, Xianran Xing
The control of thermal expansion of solid compounds is intriguing but remains challenge. In this study, we investigate the effect of guests on the thermal expansion of open-framework structures. It is interesting to observe that the presence of guest ions

Effect of Interlamellar Interactions on Shear Induced Multilamellar Vesicles Formation

July 21, 2017
Author(s)
Youhei Kawabata, Robert David Bradbury, S. Kugizaki, Kathleen Weigandt, Y. B. Melnichenko, K. Sadakane, N. L. Yamada, H. Endo, Michihiro Nagao, H. Seto
Shear-induced multilamellar vesicle (MLV) formation has been studied by means of small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) technique coupled with neutron spin echo (NSE) spectroscopy. A mass fraction of 10% of nonionic surfactant pentaethylene glycol dodecyl

Nanolayer Analysis by Neutron Reflectometry

July 18, 2017
Author(s)
Joseph A. Dura, Eric Daniel Rus, Paul Kienzle, Brian B. Maranville
Neutron reflectometry offers unique benefits for nanolayer research in green chemistry by providing accurate depth profiles of thin films and interfaces with sub-nanometer precision under in operando condition of active material in their native

Evidence of Molecular Hydrogen Trapped in Two-Dimensional Layered Titanium Carbide-Based MXene

July 17, 2017
Author(s)
Naresh C. Osti, Michael Naguib, Madhu Sudan Tyagi, Yury Gogotsi, Alexander I. Kolesnikov, Eugene Mamontov
The presence of molecular hydrogen at ambient conditions in a MXene (Ti 3C 2T x)) material is revealed by inelastic and elastic neutron scattering. Inelastic neutron scattering spectrum measured at 5 K shows a peak at 14.6 meV, providing a clear indication

The Empirical Core-Chain Model

July 12, 2017
Author(s)
Boualem Hammouda, Man-Ho Kim
Small-angle scattering requires models to analyze the data. A core-chain model has been available to fit data from solutions of core-chain particles. When the core particles are "hard" with well-defined surface, that model has been found to work well and

Modulation of Polypeptide Conformation through Donor-Acceptor Transformation of Side-Chain Hydrogen Bonding Ligands

July 1, 2017
Author(s)
Ziyuan Song, Rachael A. Mansbach, Hua He, Kuo-Chih Shih, Ryan Baumgartner, Nan Zheng, Xiaochu Ba, Yinzhao Huang, Deepak Mani, Yun Liu, Yao Lin, Mu-Ping Nieh, Andrew L. Ferguson, Lichen Yin, Jianjun Chen
Synthetic polypeptides have received increasing attention due to their ability to form higher ordered structures similar to proteins. The control over their secondary structures, which enables dynamic conformational changes, is primarily accomplished by

Precision measurement of the radiative beta decay of the free neutron

June 30, 2017
Author(s)
Christopher D. Bass, Maynard S. Dewey, Thomas R. Gentile, Hans Pieter Mumm, Alan Keith Thompson, M J. Bales, R. Alarcon, E J. Beise, H Breuer, Jim Byrne, T E. Chupp, Kevin Coakley, R L. Cooper, B. O'Neill, F E. Wietfeldt
The theory of quantum electrodynamics predicts that a continuous spectrum of photons is emitted in the beta decay of the free neutron in addition to a proton, an electron, and an antineutrino. We report the first precision test of the shape of the photon

Spin-Analyzed SANS for Soft Matter Applications

June 20, 2017
Author(s)
WangChun Chen, John Barker, Ronald L. Jones, Kathryn Krycka, Shannon Watson, Cedric Victor Lucien Gagnon, T. Perevozchivoka, Paul Butler, Thomas R. Gentile
The small angle neutron scattering (SANS) of nearly Q-independent nuclear spin-incoherent scattering from hydrogen present in most soft matter and biology samples may raise an issue in structure determination in certain soft matter applications. This is

Chamber for Mechanical Testing in H2 with Observation by Neutron Scattering

June 1, 2017
Author(s)
Matthew J. Connolly, Peter E. Bradley, Andrew J. Slifka, Elizabeth S. Drexler
A gas-pressure chamber has been designed, constructed, and tested at a moderate pressure (3.4 MPa, 500 psi) and has the capability of mechanical loading of steel specimens for neutron scattering measurements. The chamber will allow a variety of in situ

Short Time and Structural Dynamics in Polypropylene Glycol Nanocomposite

June 1, 2017
Author(s)
Madhusudan Tyagi, R. Casalini, C. M. Roland
The dynamics of polypropylene glycol, both neat and attached to silica nanoparticles, were investigated using elastic neutron backscattering and dielectric spectroscopy. The mean square displacement measured by the former is suppressed by the particles at
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