Designing Organometallic Compounds for Catalysis and Therapy
Bioorganometallic compounds have provided a rich platform for the design of effective catalysts, e.g. for olefin metathesis and transfer hydrogenation. Electronic and steric effects are used to control both the thermodynamics and kinetics of ligand substitution and redox reactions of metal ions, especially Ru(II).
Gas Phase Thermodynamics as a Validation of Computational Catalysis on Surfaces
Density functional theory has become a valuable tool to study surface catalysis. However, due to the scarcity of clean and reliable experimental data on surfaces, the theoretical methods employed to explore heterogeneous catalytic mechanisms.
Formation and Dissociation Processes of Gas Phase Detergent Micelles
Growing interest in micelles to protect membrane complexes during the transition from solution to gas phase prompts a better understanding of their properties. Ion mobility mass spectrometry is used to separate and assign the detergent clusters.
In situ Measurement of Bovine Serum Albumin Interaction with Gold Nanospheres
Adsorption of bovine serum albumin (BSA) on citrate-stabilized gold nanospheres studied using scattering correlation spectroscopy as a tool to quantify changes. Protein binding was observed as an increase in the nanoparticle hydrodynamic radius.
pH Effect on Protein G Orientation on Gold Surfaces and Characterization of Adsorption Thermodynamics
The pH effect on adsorbed antibody binding protein (protein G) orientation on gold (Au) and its adsorption thermodynamic characteristics were investigated using quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS).