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Constance EN, Zaakan A, Alsharari F, Gordon B, Syed F, Mauge-Lewis K, Bonyi E, Boone-Kukoyi Z, Aslan K. Effect of Microwave Heating on the Crystallization of Glutathione Tripeptide on Silver Nanoparticle Films. THE JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. C, NANOMATERIALS AND INTERFACES 2017; 121:5585-5593. [PMID: 31080538 PMCID: PMC6508885 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b11952] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Effect of microwave heating on the crystallization of glutathione (GSH) tripeptide using the metal-assisted and microwave-accelerated evaporative crystallization (MA-MAEC) technique is reported. GSH crystals were grown from supersaturated solutions of GSH (300-500 mg/mL) on the iCrystal plates with silver nanoparticle films (SNFs) and without SNFs in three different microwave systems operating at 2.45 GHz: conventional (multimode, fixed power at 900W), industrial (monomode, variable power up to 1200 W), and the iCrystal system (monomode, variable power up to 100 W). The efficacy of the MA-MAEC technique, in terms of improvement in the crystallization time, crystal size and quality of GSH, was compared between the three microwave systems and the crystallization at room temperature (no microwave heating, a control experiment). Optical microscopy was used to visualize and quantify the growth of GSH crystals during and after microwave heating. Powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy data showed that GSH crystals had identical crystal structure to those grown at room temperature and microwave heating did not alter the chemical structure of GSH molecules during microwave heating, respectively. Using the MA-MAEC technique, the iCrystal system yielded high quality GSH crystals in a rapid manner.
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Mohammed M, Ettinoffe YSB, Ogundolie TO, Kioko BM, Mauge-Lewis K, Aslan K. High-Throughput Crystallization of l-Alanine Using iCrystal Plates and Metal-Assisted and Microwave-Accelerated Evaporative Crystallization. Ind Eng Chem Res 2016. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.5b04427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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- Muzaffer Mohammed
- Department of Chemistry, Morgan State University, 1700
East Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore, Maryland 21251, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Morgan State University, 1700
East Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore, Maryland 21251, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Morgan State University, 1700
East Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore, Maryland 21251, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Morgan State University, 1700
East Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore, Maryland 21251, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Morgan State University, 1700
East Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore, Maryland 21251, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Morgan State University, 1700
East Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore, Maryland 21251, United States
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Bonyi E, Onuk Z, Constance E, Boone-Kukoyi Z, Gordon B, Kioko B, Daodu O, Aslan K. Metal-assisted and microwave-accelerated evaporative crystallization: an approach to rapid crystallization of biomolecules. CrystEngComm 2016. [DOI: 10.1039/c6ce01224h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Przybyłek M, Cysewski P, Pawelec M, Ziółkowska D, Kobierski M. On the origin of surface imposed anisotropic growth of salicylic and acetylsalicylic acids crystals during droplet evaporation. J Mol Model 2015; 21:49. [PMID: 25690367 PMCID: PMC4333231 DOI: 10.1007/s00894-015-2599-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2014] [Accepted: 01/26/2015] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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In this paper droplet evaporative crystallization of salicylic acid (SA) and acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) crystals on different surfaces, such as glass, polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), and paraffin was studied. The obtained crystals were analyzed using powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) technique. In order to better understand the effect of the surface on evaporative crystallization, crystals deposited on glass were scraped off. Moreover, evaporative crystallization of a large volume of solution was performed. As we found, paraffin which is non-polar surface promotes formation of crystals morphologically similar to those obtained via bulk evaporative crystallization. On the other hand, when crystallization is carried out on the polar surfaces (glass and PVA), there is a significant orientation effect. This phenomenon is manifested by the reduction of the number of peaks in PXRD spectrum recorded for deposited on the surface crystals. Noteworthy, reduction of PXRD signals is not observed for powder samples obtained after scraping crystals off the glass. In order to explain the mechanism of carboxylic crystals growth on the polar surfaces, quantum-chemical computations were performed. It has been found that crystal faces of the strongest orientation effect can be characterized by the highest surface densities of intermolecular interactions energy (IIE). In case of SA and ASA crystals formed on the polar surfaces the most dominant faces are characterized by the highest adhesive and cohesive properties. This suggests that the selection rules of the orientation effect comes directly from surface IIE densities.
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- Maciej Przybyłek
- Department of Physical Chemistry, Collegium Medicum of Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Kurpińskiego 5, 85-950, Bydgoszcz, Poland,
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Mohammed M, Clement TC, Aslan K. Circular Bioassay Platforms for Applications in Microwave-Accelerated Techniques. NANO BIOMEDICINE AND ENGINEERING 2014; 6:85-93. [PMID: 25568813 PMCID: PMC4283778 DOI: 10.5101/nbe.v6i4.p85-93] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In this paper, we present the design of four different circular bioassay platforms, which are suitable for homogeneous microwave heating, using theoretical calculations (i.e., COMSOL™ multiphysics software). Circular bioassay platforms are constructed from poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) for optical transparency between 400-800 nm, has multiple sample capacity (12, 16, 19 and 21 wells) and modified with silver nanoparticle films (SNFs) to be used in microwave-accelerated bioassays (MABs). In addition, a small monomode microwave cavity, which can be operated with an external microwave generator (100 W), for use with the bioassay platforms in MABs is also developed. Our design parameters for the circular bioassay platforms and monomode microwave cavity during microwave heating were: (i) temperature profiles, (ii) electric field distributions, (iii) location of the circular bioassay platforms inside the microwave cavity, and (iv) design and number of wells on the circular bioassay platforms. We have also carried out additional simulations to assess the use of circular bioassay platforms in a conventional kitchen microwave oven (e.g., 900 W). Our results show that the location of the circular bioassay platforms in the microwave cavity was predicted to have a significant effect on the homogeneous heating of these platforms. The 21-well circular bioassay platform design in our monomode microwave cavity was predicted to offer a homogeneous heating pattern, where inter-well temperature was observed to be in between 23.72-24.13°C and intra-well temperature difference was less than 0.21°C for 60 seconds of microwave heating, which was also verified experimentally.
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On the origin of surfaces-dependent growth of benzoic acid crystal inferred through the droplet evaporation method. Struct Chem 2014. [DOI: 10.1007/s11224-014-0528-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Stefanidis GD, Muñoz AN, Sturm GS, Stankiewicz A. A helicopter view of microwave application to chemical processes: reactions, separations, and equipment concepts. REV CHEM ENG 2014. [DOI: 10.1515/revce-2013-0033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Grell TAJ, Pinard MA, Pettis D, Aslan K. Rapid crystallization of glycine using metal-assisted and microwave-accelerated evaporative crystallization: the effect of engineered surfaces and sample volume. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013; 4:125-131. [PMID: 23336084 DOI: 10.5101/nbe.v4i3.p125-131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Metal-Assisted and Microwave-Accelerated Evaporative Crystallization (MA-MAEC), is a new approach to crystallization of drug compounds, amino acids, DNA and proteins. In this work, we report our additional findings on the effect of engineered surfaces and sample volume on the rapid crystallization of glycine. With the use of hydrophilic functionalized surfaces and the MA-MAEC technique, glycine crystals ~1 mm in size were grown in 35 seconds with 100% selectivity for the α-form.The use of moderately hydrophobic surfaces resulted in the growth of glycine crystals only at room temperature. An increase in volume of initial glycine solution (5-100 μL) resulted in an increase in crystal size without a significant increase in total crystallization time. Raman spectroscopy and powder X-ray diffraction results demonstrated that the glycine crystals grown on engineered surfaces were structurally identical to those grown using conventional evaporative crystallization.
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- Tsehai A J Grell
- Morgan State University, Department of Chemistry, 1700 East Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore, MD 21251, USA
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Alabanza AM, Mohammed M, Aslan K. Crystallization of Amino Acids on a 21-well Circular PMMA Platform using Metal-Assisted and Microwave-Accelerated Evaporative Crystallization. NANO BIOMEDICINE AND ENGINEERING 2013; 5:140-147. [PMID: 24855565 PMCID: PMC4027061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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We describe the design and the use of a circular poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) crystallization platform capable of processing 21 samples in Metal-Assisted and Microwave-Accelerated Evaporative Crystallization (MA-MAEC). The PMMA platforms were modified with silver nanoparticle films (SNFs) to generate a microwave-induced temperature gradient between the solvent and the SNFs due to the marked differences in their physical properties. Since amino acids only chemisorb on to silver on the PMMA platform, SNFs served as selective and heterogeneous nucleation sites for amino acids. Theoretical simulations for electric field and temperature distributions inside a microwave cavity equipped with a PMMA platform were carried out to determine the optimum experimental conditions, i.e., temperature variations and placement of the PMMA platform inside a microwave cavity. In addition, the actual temperature profiles of the amino acid solutions were monitored for the duration of the crystallization experiments carried out at room temperature and during microwave heating. The crystallization of five amino acids (L-threonine, L-histidine, L-leucine, L-serine and L-valine HCl) at room temperature (control experiment) and using MA-MAEC were followed by optical microscopy. The induction time and crystal growth rates for all amino acids were determined. Using MA-MAEC, for all amino acids the induction times were significantly reduced (up to ~8-fold) and the crystal growth rates were increased (up to ~50-fold) as compared to room temperature crystallization, respectively. All crystals were characterized by Raman spectroscopy and powder x-ray diffraction, which demonstrated that the crystal structures of all amino acids grown at room temperature and using MA-MAEC were similar.
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- Anginelle M. Alabanza
- Morgan State University, Department of Chemistry, 1700 East Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore, MD, 21251, USA
- The College of New Jersey, Department of Chemistry, 2000 Pennington Road, Ewing, NJ, 08628, USA
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- Morgan State University, Department of Chemistry, 1700 East Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore, MD, 21251, USA
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- Morgan State University, Department of Chemistry, 1700 East Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore, MD, 21251, USA
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Alabanza AM, Mohammed M, Aslan K. Crystallization of l-alanine in the presence of additives on a circular PMMA platform designed for metal-assisted and microwave-accelerated evaporative crystallization. CrystEngComm 2012; 14:8424-8431. [PMID: 23378822 DOI: 10.1039/c2ce26363g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Crystallization of l-alanine in the presence of l-valine and l-tryptophan additives on a circular poly(methyl) methacrylate (PMMA) platform designed for Metal-Assisted and Microwave-Accelerated Evaporative Crystallization (MA-MAEC) technique was investigated. Theoretical simulations predicted homogeneous temperature and electric field distributions across the circular PMMA platforms during microwave heating. Crystallization of l-alanine with and without additives on the blank and silver nanoparticle films (SNFs) modified sides of the circular PMMA platform occurred within 32-50 min using MA-MAEC technique, while the identical solutions crystallized within 161-194 min at room temperature. Optical microscopy studies revealed that l-alanine crystals without additives were found to be smaller in size and had several well-developed faces, whereas l-alanine crystals grown with additives appeared to be larger and had only one dominant highly-developed face. Raman spectroscopy and powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) measurements showed that all l-alanine crystals had identical peaks, despite the morphological differences between the l-alanine crystals with and without additives observed by optical microscope images.
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- Anginelle M Alabanza
- The College of New Jersey, Department of Chemistry, 2000 Pennington Road, Ewing, NJ, 08628, USA
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Pinard MA, Grell TAJ, Pettis D, Mohammed M, Aslan K. Rapid crystallization of L-arginine acetate on engineered surfaces using metal-assisted and microwave-accelerated evaporative crystallization(). CrystEngComm 2012; 14:4557-4561. [PMID: 22888307 DOI: 10.1039/c2ce25380a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We report the application of our newly described crystallization technique, which employs silver island films (SIFs) and microwave heating, to rapid crystallization of L-arginine acetate (LAA). Using our technique, LAA crystals (~ 1.2 mm in length) were grown from a 20 μl solution in 1 min on surface functionalized SIFs. In control experiments (glass slides and at room temperature) the growth of LAA crystals (0.1-0.3 mm) took ~ 55 min.
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- Melissa A Pinard
- University of Florida, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 1600 SW Archer Road, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
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