abstractthe liquid crystal director distribution is determined for a confined chiral nematic slab. the molecular director distribution of the field-controlled chiral nematic slab is directly calculated. the director profiles for the tilt and the twist angles, under different applied fields, are calculated in the slab with weak boundary conditions. then, the dependence of the threshold field on ...

Experimental determination of solubility and ternary phase diagram of chiral compound are of tedious and time consuming tasks, and in many cases, there is not enough experimental data for different enantiomeric compositions to access the experimental ternary phase diagram. Using thermodynamic models with predictive capability, having less dependency on experimental data, affords a great advanta...

Molecularly imprinted nanoparticles were encapsulated into polymer nanofibers with a simple electrospinning method. The composite nanofibers form non-woven mats that can be used as affinity membrane to greatly simplify solid phase extraction of drug residues in analytical samples. Upward 100% of propranolol-imprinted nanoparticles can be easily encapsulated into poly(ethylene terephthalate) nan...

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) possess unique mechanical, physical, electrical and absorbability properties coupled with their nanometer dimensional scale that renders them extremely valuable for applications in many fields including nanotechnology and chromatographic separation. The aim of this review is to provide an updated overview about the applications of CNTs in chiral and achiral separations o...

We investigate the behaviour of the nuclear forces as a function of the light quark masses (or, equivalently, pion mass) in the framework of chiral effective field theory at next-to-leading order. The nucleon–nucleon force is described in terms of one and two–pion exchange and local short distance operators, which depend explicitly and implicitly on the quark masses. The pion propagator becomes...

Fluoroquinolones are antibiotics of significant environmental concern their extended use not only in human medicine but also veterinary and as therapeutic agents to promote livestock growth aquaculture. Some fluoroquinolones metabolites chiral compounds. Therefore, for a proper risk assessment, enantioselective analytical methods required. In this work, an method has been developed validated th...

We discuss the extraction of the electromagnetic and spin polarisabilities of nucleons from lattice QCD [1]. We show that the external field method can be used to measure all the electromagnetic and spin polarisabilities including those of charged particles. We then turn to the extrapolations required to connect such calculations to experiment in the context of chiral perturbation theory, findi...

Strong final-state interactions create a pronounced cusp in η → ηππ decays. We adapt and generalize the non-relativistic effective field theory framework developed for the extraction of ππ scattering lengths from K → 3π decays to this case. The cusp effect is predicted to have an effect of more than 8% on the decay spectrum below the ππ threshold. PACS. 11.30.Rd Chiral symmetries – 13.25.Jx Dec...

I review the most important singleand double-spin asymmetries that allow for the extraction of transversity and other chiral-odd and/or T-odd parton densities, necessary to explore the partonic content and the spin structure of the nucleon. With particular reference to the proposed GSI-HESR facility, I report on some Monte-Carlo simulations of cross sections and spin asymmetries for (un)polariz...

We study the semileptonic decays of heavy mesons into light pseudoscalars by making use of dispersion relations. Constraints from heavy quark symmetry, chiral symmetry and perturbative QCD are implemented into a dispersive model for the form-factors. Large deviations from B-pole dominance are observed in B → πlν. We discuss the model prediction for this mode and its possible impact on the extra...