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Filianina M, Bin M, Berkowicz S, Reiser M, Li H, Timmermann S, Blankenburg M, Amann-Winkel K, Gutt C, Perakis F. Nanocrystallites Modulate Intermolecular Interactions in Cryoprotected Protein Solutions. J Phys Chem B 2023. [PMID: 37399586 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c02413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/05/2023]
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Studying protein interactions at low temperatures has important implications for optimizing cryostorage processes of biological tissue, food, and protein-based drugs. One of the major issues is related to the formation of ice nanocrystals, which can occur even in the presence of cryoprotectants and can lead to protein denaturation. The presence of ice nanocrystals in protein solutions poses several challenges since, contrary to microscopic ice crystals, they can be difficult to resolve and can complicate the interpretation of experimental data. Here, using a combination of small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS and WAXS), we investigate the structural evolution of concentrated lysozyme solutions in a cryoprotected glycerol-water mixture from room temperature (T = 300 K) down to cryogenic temperatures (T = 195 K). Upon cooling, we observe a transition near the melting temperature of the solution (T ≈ 245 K), which manifests both in the temperature dependence of the scattering intensity peak position reflecting protein-protein length scales (SAXS) and the interatomic distances within the solvent (WAXS). Upon thermal cycling, a hysteresis is observed in the scattering intensity, which is attributed to the formation of nanocrystallites in the order of 10 nm. The experimental data are well described by the two-Yukawa model, which indicates temperature-dependent changes in the short-range attraction of the protein-protein interaction potential. Our results demonstrate that the nanocrystal growth yields effectively stronger protein-protein attraction and influences the protein pair distribution function beyond the first coordination shell.
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- Mariia Filianina
- Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
- Max Plank Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Universität Siegen, Walter-Flex-Strasse 3, 57072 Siegen, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
- Max Plank Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
- Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Universität Siegen, Walter-Flex-Strasse 3, 57072 Siegen, Germany
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- Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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Interplay of vitrification and ice formation in a cryoprotectant aqueous solution at low temperature. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2022; 119:e2112248119. [PMID: 35302891 PMCID: PMC8944663 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2112248119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Studying water crystallization at low temperature and the lower limit of ice formation is crucial both for a fundamental understanding of water and for practical reasons such as cryopreservation. By taking advantage of the polarized neutron scattering technique and by considering a nanosegregated water–glycerol solution, we are able to characterize the key parameters of ice formation at temperatures near and below the calorimetric glass transition of the solution and provide a general rule for estimating the lower temperature limit of water crystallization in a broad range of aqueous solutions. We also show that nanosegregated water in the glassy solution at low temperature is not in a high-density form but in a low-density one. The proneness of water to crystallize is a major obstacle to understanding its putative exotic behavior in the supercooled state. It also represents a strong practical limitation to cryopreservation of biological systems. Adding some concentration of glycerol, which has a cryoprotective effect preventing, to some degree, water crystallization, has been proposed as a possible way out, provided the concentration is small enough for water to retain some of its bulk character and/or for limiting the damage caused by glycerol on living organisms. Contrary to previous expectations, we show that, in the “marginal” glycerol molar concentration ≈ 18%, at which vitrification is possible with no crystallization on rapid cooling, water crystallizes upon isothermal annealing even below the calorimetric glass transition of the solution. Through a time-resolved polarized neutron scattering investigation, we extract key parameters, size and shape of the ice crystallites, fraction of water that crystallizes, and crystallization time, which are important for cryoprotection, as a function of the annealing temperature. We also characterize the nature of the out-of-equilibrium liquid phases that are present at low temperature, providing more arguments against the presence of an isocompositional liquid–liquid transition. Finally, we propose a rule of thumb to estimate the lower temperature limit below which water crystallization does not occur in aqueous solutions.
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Wang Y, Corradini MG, Ludescher RD. Temperature-dependence of riboflavin phosphorescence in cryosolvents. Food Chem 2021; 376:131928. [PMID: 34968903 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2021.131928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2021] [Revised: 12/16/2021] [Accepted: 12/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The molecular mobility of amorphous excipients is important for the stability of biomaterials during preservation, facilitating matrix formulation and product design. Phosphorescence spectroscopy is a sensitive optical method to study molecular mobility. However, there is a need to expand the pool of probes available for analysis since molecules differ in sensitivity. This research explored the feasibility and limitations of using riboflavin as a phosphorescent probe for monitoring matrix molecular mobility. Phosphorescence decays of riboflavin in four amorphous cryosolvents (aqueous solutions of glycerol, ethanol, sucrose, and dextran) were collected at 77 K to capture its natural phosphorescence lifetime (estimated at 170 ms). Decays were also collected during ballistic heating to assess the sensitivity of riboflavin towards changes in matrix molecular mobility. Riboflavin exhibited good sensitivity towards matrix secondary relaxations in the glass, indicating that riboflavin has excellent potential as an edible phosphorescent probe for molecular mobility in food and pharmaceutical products.
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- Yan Wang
- Department of Food Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, United States
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- Department of Food Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, United States
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- Department of Food Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, United States.
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- Hajime Tanaka
- Department of Fundamental Engineering, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan
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Bachler J, Fuentes-Landete V, Jahn DA, Wong J, Giovambattista N, Loerting T. Glass polymorphism in glycerol-water mixtures: II. Experimental studies. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2017; 18:11058-68. [PMID: 27044677 PMCID: PMC4840991 DOI: 10.1039/c5cp08069j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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We here study pressure-induced amorphization and polyamorphic transitions in frozen bulk glycerol–water solutions experimentally.
We report a detailed experimental study of (i) pressure-induced transformations in glycerol–water mixtures at T = 77 K and P = 0–1.8 GPa, and (ii) heating-induced transformations of glycerol–water mixtures recovered at 1 atm and T = 77 K. Our samples are prepared by cooling the solutions at ambient pressure at various cooling rates (100 K s–1–10 K h–1) and for the whole range of glycerol mole fractions, χg. Depending on concentration and cooling rates, cooling leads to samples containing amorphous ice (χg ≥ 0.20), ice (χg ≤ 0.32), and/or “distorted ice” (0 < χg ≤ 0.38). Upon compression, we find that (a) fully vitrified samples at χg ≥ 0.20 do not show glass polymorphism, in agreement with previous works; (b) samples containing ice show pressure-induced amorphization (PIA) leading to the formation of high-density amorphous ice (HDA). PIA of ice domains within the glycerol–water mixtures is shown to be possible only up to χg ≈ 0.32 (T = 77 K). This is rather surprising since it has been known that at χg < 0.38, cooling leads to phase-separated samples with ice and maximally freeze-concentrated solution of χg ≈ 0.38. Accordingly, in the range 0.32 < χg < 0.38, we suggest that the water domains freeze into an interfacial ice, i.e., a highly-distorted form of layered ice, which is unable to transform to HDA upon compression. Upon heating samples recovered at 1 atm, we observe a rich phase behavior. Differential scanning calorimetry indicates that only at χg ≤ 0.15, the water domains within the sample exhibit polyamorphism, i.e., the HDA-to-LDA (low-density amorphous ice) transformation. At 0.15 < χg ≤ 0.38, samples contain ice, interfacial ice, and/or HDA domains. All samples (χg ≤ 0.38) show: the crystallization of amorphous ice domains, followed by the glass transition of the vitrified glycerol–water domains and, finally, the melting of ice at high temperatures. Our work exemplifies the complex “phase” behavior of glassy binary mixtures due to phase-separation (ice formation) and polyamorphism, and the relevance of sample preparation, concentration as well as cooling rates. The presence of the distorted ice (called “interphase” by us) also explains the debated “drift anomaly” upon melting. These results are compatible with the high-pressure study by Suzuki and Mishima indicating disappearance of polyamorphism at P ≈ 0.03–0.05 GPa at χg ≈ 0.12–0.15 [J. Chem. Phys., 2014, 141, 094505].
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- Johannes Bachler
- Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
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- Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY 11210, USA
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- Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY 11210, USA
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- Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY 11210, USA and PhD Programs in Physics and Chemistry, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
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Glass transition of aqueous solutions involving annealing-induced ice recrystallization resolves liquid-liquid transition puzzle of water. Sci Rep 2015; 5:15714. [PMID: 26503911 PMCID: PMC4621610 DOI: 10.1038/srep15714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2015] [Accepted: 09/28/2015] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Liquid-liquid transition of water is an important concept in condensed-matter physics. Recently, it was claimed to have been confirmed in aqueous solutions based on annealing-induced upshift of glass-liquid transition temperature, . Here we report a universal water-content, , dependence of for aqueous solutions. Solutions with vitrify/devitrify at a constant temperature, , referring to freeze-concentrated phase with left behind ice crystallization. Those solutions with totally vitrify at under conventional cooling/heating process though, of the samples annealed at temperatures to effectively evoke ice recrystallization is stabilized at . Experiments on aqueous glycerol and 1,2,4-butanetriol solutions in literature were repeated, and the same samples subject to other annealing treatments equally reproduce the result. The upshift of by annealing is attributable to freeze-concentrated phase of solutions instead of ‘liquid II phase of water’. Our work also provides a reliable method to determine hydration formula and to scrutinize solute-solvent interaction in solution.
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Kobayashi M, Shimizu R, Tanaka H. Time-Resolved Light Scattering Study on the Kinetics of the Liquid-Liquid Transition in Triphenyl Phosphite. J Phys Chem B 2015; 119:11768-82. [PMID: 26237030 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b05402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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There is experimental evidence suggesting the existence of a liquid-liquid transition (LLT) in a single-component liquid. However, none of this evidence is free from controversy, including the case of a molecular liquid, triphenyl phosphite, which we study here. Furthermore, the kinetics of LLT has been largely unexplored. Here we study the phase-transition dynamics of triphenyl phosphite in a supercooled liquid state by means of time-resolved polarized and depolarized small-angle light scattering to clarify whether the transition is a liquid-liquid transition (LLT) or merely nanocrystal formation. A part of this study was recently reported in another of our papers [Shimizu, R.; Kobayashi, M.; Tanaka, H. Phys. Rev. Lett. 2014, 112, 125702]. A detailed analysis of our experimental results of light scattering and the comparison with heat evolution during LLT have revealed the following facts. The polarized scattering from domains has a finite (nonzero) intensity in the low-wavenumber limit, and the time evolution of its average intensity is almost proportional to the square of the heat-releasing rate. The depolarized scattering intensity monotonically increases in the process of LLT during isothermal annealing above the spinodal temperature TSD but exhibits a peak below TSD. On the basis of these results, we suggest that the primary process is LLT, whose order parameter is of a nonconserved nature, but accompanies nanocrystal formation. In the NG-type LLT, the sharp interface between liquid II droplets and the liquid I matrix promotes nanocrystal formation there, whereas much less nanocrystal formation is induced in the SD-type LLT due to the lack of such sharp interfaces.
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- Mika Kobayashi
- Department of Fundamental Engineering, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo , 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan
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- Department of Fundamental Engineering, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo , 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan
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- Department of Fundamental Engineering, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo , 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan
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Popov I, Greenbaum Gutina A, Sokolov AP, Feldman Y. The puzzling first-order phase transition in water-glycerol mixtures. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:18063-71. [PMID: 26100246 DOI: 10.1039/c5cp02851e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Over the last decade, discussions on a possible liquid-liquid transition (LLT) have strongly intensified. The LLT proposed by several authors focused mostly on explaining the anomalous properties of water in a deeply supercooled state. However, there have been no direct experimental observations yet of LLT in bulk water in the so-called 'no man's land', where water exists only in the crystalline states. Recently, a novel experimental strategy to detect LLT in water has been employed using water-glycerol (W-G) mixtures, because glycerol can generate a strong hindrance for water crystallization. As a result, the observed first-order phase transition at a concentration of glycerol around cg≈ 20 mol% was ascribed to the LLT. Here we show unambiguously that the first order phase transition in W-G mixtures is caused by the ice formation. We provide additional dielectric measurements, applying specific annealing temperature protocols in order to reinforce this conclusion. We also provide an explanation, why such a phase transition occurs only in the narrow glycerol concentration range. These results clearly demonstrate the danger of analysis of phase-separating liquids to gain better insights into water dynamics. These liquids have complex phase behavior that is affected by temperature, phase stability and segregation, viscosity and nucleation, and finally by crystallization, that might lead to significant misinterpretations.
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- Ivan Popov
- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Applied Physics, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.
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Murata KI, Tanaka H. Microscopic identification of the order parameter governing liquid-liquid transition in a molecular liquid. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2015; 112:5956-61. [PMID: 25918385 PMCID: PMC4434750 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1501149112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A liquid-liquid transition (LLT) in a single-component substance is an unconventional phase transition from one liquid to another. LLT has recently attracted considerable attention because of its fundamental importance in our understanding of the liquid state. To access the order parameter governing LLT from a microscopic viewpoint, here we follow the structural evolution during the LLT of an organic molecular liquid, triphenyl phosphite (TPP), by time-resolved small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering measurements. We find that locally favored clusters, whose characteristic size is a few nanometers, are spontaneously formed and their number density monotonically increases during LLT. This strongly suggests that the order parameter of LLT is the number density of locally favored structures and of nonconserved nature. We also show that the locally favored structures are distinct from the crystal structure and these two types of orderings compete with each other. Thus, our study not only experimentally identifies the structural order parameter governing LLT, but also may settle a long-standing debate on the nature of the transition in TPP, i.e., whether the transition is LLT or merely microcrystal formation.
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- Ken-ichiro Murata
- Department of Fundamental Engineering, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan
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- Department of Fundamental Engineering, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan
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Mishraki-Berkowitz T, Ben Ishai P, Aserin A, Feldman Y, Garti N. The dielectric study of insulin-loaded reverse hexagonal (HII) liquid crystals. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:9499-508. [DOI: 10.1039/c4cp03162h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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This paper discusses the structural, dynamic, and kinetic aspects of the insulin-loaded HII mesophase (containing GMO–TAG–water–glycerol–insulin) and the two empty reference systems (GMO–TAG–water and GMO–TAG–water–glycerol). Schematic representation of an insulin-loaded water–glycerol-filled HII cylinder, at 290 K.
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- T. Mishraki-Berkowitz
- The Ratner Chair in Chemistry
- Casali Institute of Applied Chemistry
- The Institute of Chemistry
- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Jerusalem 91904
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- Department of Applied Physics
- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Jerusalem 91904
- Israel
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- The Ratner Chair in Chemistry
- Casali Institute of Applied Chemistry
- The Institute of Chemistry
- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Jerusalem 91904
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- Department of Applied Physics
- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Jerusalem 91904
- Israel
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- The Ratner Chair in Chemistry
- Casali Institute of Applied Chemistry
- The Institute of Chemistry
- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Jerusalem 91904
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Wang M, Gao Y, Cao C, Chen K, Wen Y, Fang D, Li L, Guo X. Binary Solvent Colloids of Thermosensitive Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Microgel for Smart Windows. Ind Eng Chem Res 2014. [DOI: 10.1021/ie502828b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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- Mi Wang
- State
Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China
- Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai 200050, China
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- Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai 200050, China
- School
of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, 99 Shangda
Rd., Baoshan, Shanghai 200444, China
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- Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai 200050, China
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- College
of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, China
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- State
Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China
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- State
Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China
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- State
Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China
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- State
Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China
- Key
Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering of Xinjiang
Uygur Autonomous Region, Shihezi University, Xinjiang 832000, PR China
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Shimizu R, Kobayashi M, Tanaka H. Evidence of liquid-liquid transition in triphenyl phosphite from time-resolved light scattering experiments. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2014; 112:125702. [PMID: 24724660 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.112.125702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Here, we study the phase transition kinetics in a supercooled liquid state of triphenyl phosphite by means of time-resolved polarized and depolarized light scattering to address a long-standing controversy on its mechanism, i.e., whether the phenomenon is primarily induced by liquid-liquid transition (LLT) or by nanocrystal formation. We find that the polarized scattering intensity exhibits a peak as a function of time, and its low wave number limit is nonzero for any annealing temperatures, both of which strongly indicate the nonconserved nature of an order parameter governing the transition. We also observe evolution of depolarized scattering. Above the spinodal temperature TSD, the depolarized scattering intensity monotonically increases with time since it is dominated by scattering from nanocrystallites, which are continuously formed during the process. Below TSD, on the other hand, it exhibits a distinct peak as a function of time as the polarized scattering intensity does. This appearance of the peak suggests that dielectric tensor fluctuations responsible for the depolarized scattering mainly come from isotropic density fluctuations and not from nanocrystallites, supporting the occurrence of LLT.
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- Ryotaro Shimizu
- Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan
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- Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan
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- Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan
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General nature of liquid–liquid transition in aqueous organic solutions. Nat Commun 2013; 4:2844. [DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2013] [Accepted: 10/29/2013] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Comparison between the design of experiments and simulation in the three-phase distillation in a sieve tray column for glycerine dehydration. Chem Eng Res Des 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2013.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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McCartney SA, Sadtchenko V. Fast scanning calorimetry studies of the glass transition in doped amorphous solid water: Evidence for the existence of a unique vicinal phase. J Chem Phys 2013; 138:084501. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4789629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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GhattyVenkataKrishna PK, Carri GA. The effect of complex solvents on the structure and dynamics of protein solutions: The case of Lysozyme in trehalose/water mixtures. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. E, SOFT MATTER 2013; 36:14. [PMID: 23404569 DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2013-13014-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2012] [Revised: 10/15/2012] [Accepted: 01/17/2013] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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We present a Molecular Dynamics simulation study of the effect of trehalose concentration on the structure and dynamics of individual proteins immersed in trehalose/water mixtures. Hen egg-white Lysozyme is used in this study and trehalose concentrations of 0%, 10%, 20%, 30% and 100% by weight are explored. Surprisingly, we have found that changes in trehalose concentration do not change the global structural characteristics of the protein as measured by standard quantities like the mean square deviation, radius of gyration, solvent accessible surface area, inertia tensor and asphericity. Only in the limit of pure trehalose these metrics change significantly. Specifically, we found that the protein is compressed by 2% when immersed in pure trehalose. At the amino acid level there is noticeable rearrangement of the surface residues due to the change in polarity of the surrounding environment with the addition of trehalose. From a dynamic perspective, our computation of the Incoherent Intermediate Scattering Function shows that the protein slows down with increasing trehalose concentration; however, this slowdown is not monotonic. Finally, we also report in-depth results for the hydration layer around the protein including its structure, hydrogen-bonding characteristics and dynamic behavior at different length scales.
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Tanaka H. Importance of many-body orientational correlations in the physical description of liquids. Faraday Discuss 2013; 167:9-76. [DOI: 10.1039/c3fd00110e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Hayashi Y, Katsumoto Y, Omori S, Kishii N, Yasuda A. Liquid Structure of the Urea−Water System Studied by Dielectric Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem B 2007; 111:1076-80. [PMID: 17266260 DOI: 10.1021/jp065291y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Dielectric spectroscopy measurements for aqueous urea solutions were performed at 298 K through a concentration range from 0.5 to 9.0 M with frequencies between 200 MHz and 40 GHz. Observed dielectric spectra were well represented by the superposition of two Debye type relaxation processes attributable to the bulk-water clusters and the urea-water coclusters. Our quantitative analysis of the spectra shows that the number of hydration water molecules is approximately two per urea molecule for the lower concentration region below 5.0 M, while the previous molecular dynamics studies predicted approximately six water molecules. It was also indicated by those studies, however, that there are two types of hydration water molecule in urea solution, which are strongly and weakly associated to the urea molecule, respectively. Only the strongly associated water was distinguishable in our analysis, while the weakly associated water exhibited the same dynamic feature as bulk water. This implies that urea retains the weakly associated water in the tetrahedral structure and, thus, is not a strong structure breaker of water. We also verified the model of liquid water where water consists of two states: the icelike-ordered and dense-disordered phases. Our dielectric data did not agree with the theoretical prediction based on the two-phase model. The present work supports the argument that urea molecules can easily replace near-neighbor water in the hydrogen-bonding network and do not require the presence of the disordered phase of water to dissolve into water.
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- Yoshihito Hayashi
- Life Science Laboratory, Materials Laboratories, Sony Corporation, Sony Bioinformatics Center, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8510, Japan.
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Behrends R, Fuchs K, Kaatze U, Hayashi Y, Feldman Y. Dielectric properties of glycerol/water mixtures at temperatures between 10 and 50 degrees C. J Chem Phys 2006; 124:144512. [PMID: 16626219 DOI: 10.1063/1.2188391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
Abstract
At six temperatures T between 10 and 50 degrees C and at mole fractions x(g) of glycerol (0<x(g)<or=0.9) the complex (electric) permittivity epsilon(nu) of glycerol/water mixtures has been measured as a function of frequency nu between 1 MHz and 40 GHz. The spectra of the glycerol/water mixtures can be well represented by a Davidson-Cole [J. Chem. Phys. 18, 1417 (1950)] relaxation function that reveals an unsymmetric relaxation time distribution. The effective dipole orientation correlation factor derived from the static permittivity displays an unspectacular behavior upon mixture composition. The dielectric relaxation time reveals a simple relation to the shear viscosity of the mixtures, but both quantities are not proportional to one another. The relaxation times at high temperatures nicely complement previously determined low temperature data, following a Vogel-Fulcher-Tammann-Hesse [Z. Phys. 22, 645 (1925); J. Am. Chem. Ceram. Soc. 8, 339 (1923); Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. 156, 245 (1926)] (VFTH) temperature dependence. When the Eyring behavior is assumed a limiting high temperature form of the VFTH relation, enthalpy, and entropy of activation values are found which adopt significantly higher values in the glycerol rich mixtures than in the water rich liquids. The relaxation time distribution parameter at high water content indicates a dynamically heterogeneous structure of the liquids. Likely there exist glycerol rich and water rich microphases.
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Affiliation(s)
- R Behrends
- Drittes Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universität, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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