Real-time monitoring of trehalose crystallization using quantum cascade laser microscopy and 2D-COS
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR STRUCTURE
Authors: Rivera, Yesenia M. Acevedo; Melendez, Michael; Pastrana-Rios, Belinda
Abstract
Molecular detail of the trehalose crystallization process was obtained during thermal perturbation through real-time monitoring using a Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) microscope and 2D correlation spectroscopy. We were able to separate QCL IR spectral data based on the hyperspectral images acquired into key segments that defined the crystallization events: (1) trehalose in solution or the pre-transition phase, (2) nucleation and crystallization transition and (3) the crystal growth phase. Furthermore, the hyperspectral images allowed for the determination of the region of interest (ROI) allowing for the selection of QCL IR spectral data directly associated with the crystallization process. This approach allowed for the distinction of different types of intermolecular Hydrogen bonding interactions and dynamics involving a,a-trehalose with its aqueous environment, the dihydrate and between trehalose molecules. To our knowledge this is the first time that a real-time description of the molecular events that lead to trehalose crystallization have been described. Published by Elsevier B.V.
Modeling Photoionized Turbulent Material in the Circumgalactic Medium. II. Effect of Turbulence within a Stratified Medium
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Authors: Buie, Edward, II; Gray, William J.; Scannapieco, Evan; Safarzadeh, Mohammadtaher
Abstract
The circumgalactic medium (CGM) of nearby star-forming galaxies shows clear indications of Oviabsorption accompanied by little to no detectable Nvabsorption. This unusual spectral signature, accompanied by highly nonuniform absorption from lower-ionization-state species, indicates that the CGM must be viewed as a dynamic, multiphase medium, such as occurs in the presence of turbulence. Motivated by previous isotropic turbulent simulations, we carry out chemodynamical simulations of stratified media in a Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) gravitational potential with a total mass of 10(12) Mand turbulence that decreases radially. The simulations assume a metallicity of 0.3 Zand a redshift-zero metagalatic UV background, and they track ionizations, recombinations, and species-by-species radiative cooling using the MAIHEM package. We compare a suite of ionic column densities with the COS-Halos sample of low-redshift star-forming galaxies. Turbulence with an average one-dimensional velocity dispersion of 40 km s(-1), corresponding to an energy injection rate of 4 x 10(49)erg yr(-1), produces a CGM that matches many of the observed ionic column densities and ratios. In this simulation, theN(N)(V)/N(O)(VI)ratio is suppressed from its equilibrium value due to a combination of radiative cooling and cooling from turbulent mixing. This level of turbulence is consistent with expectations from observations of better constrained, higher-mass systems and could be sustained by energy input from supernovae, gas inflows, and dynamical friction from dark matter subhalos. We also conduct a higher resolution 40 km s(-1)run, which yields smaller-scale structures but remains in agreement with observations.