Novel metrology has been developed for measuring in-situ film thickness and absorption coefficient simultaneously. Designed specifically for photolithography processes, this metrology, if applied to photoresist films, can measure thickness and photoactive compound concentration in-situ, which are important parameters for photolithography process control and diagnosis.

Controlling the Photoreactivity of the Photoactive Yellow Protein Chromophore by Substituting at the p-Coumaric Acid Group Martial Boggio-Pasqua and Gerrit Groenhof* Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantiques, IRSAMC, CNRS et Universit e de Toulouse, 31062 Toulouse, France Computational Biomolecular Chemistry group, Max-Planck-Institut f€ur Biophysikalische Chemie, Am Fassberg 11, D-37077 G€o...

A review of literature on photoisomerization of bilirubin and photoactive yellow protein suggests possible involvement of the volume-conserving Hula-twist (HT) reaction mechanism in their primary photochemical processes. Additional definitive experiments to verify their involvement are proposed. Information related to photoproducts of bacteriorhodopsin, rhodopsin, and phytochrome are reviewed. ...

Despite the promising function of conjugated polyelectrolytes (CPEs) as an interfacial layer in organic photovoltaics (OPVs), the underlying mechanism of dipole orientation and the electrical characteristics of CPE interlayers remain unclear. Currently, the ionic functionality of CPEs (i.e., whether they are cationic or anionic) is believed to determine the interfacial dipole alignment and the ...

Single-molecule fluorescence microscopy enables unrivaled sub-cellular quantitation of genomically encoded fusions of native proteins with fluorescent protein reporters. Fluorescent proteins must undergo in vivo maturation after expression before they become photoactive. Maturation effects must be quantified during single-molecule analysis. Here we present a method to characterise maturation of...

Mesoporous silica coated upconverting nanoparticles are loaded with the anticancer drug doxorubicin and grafted with ruthenium complexes as photoactive molecular valves. Drug release was triggered by 974 nm light with 0.35 W cm(-2). Such low light intensity minimized overheating problems and prevented photodamage to biological samples.

Photoactive in one step! A nanocomposite water-oxidation photocatalyst was assembled by a straightforward and one-step spin-coating procedure of a Ti- and Ni-containing molecule on nanostructured WO3. The photoanode oxidizes water to O2 with good activity and stability in alkaline solution, and thereby features light absorption, charge separation and water-oxidation catalysis (see scheme).

Influenza A viruses, the pathogens responsible for the recent swine flu outbreak and many historical pandemics, remain a threat to the public health. We report herein the fabrication of self-disinfecting surfaces from photoactive building nanocrystals, which can inactivate influenza viruses rapidly, spontaneously and continuously under visible light illumination.

Photoactive yellow protein (PYP) is involved in the negative phototactic response towards blue light of the bacterium Halorhodospira halophila. Here, we report nearly complete backbone and side chain (1)H, (13)C and (15)N resonance assignments at pH 5.8 and 20 °C of PYP in its electronic ground state.

The goals of time-resolved macromolecular crystallography are to extract the molecular structures of the reaction intermediates and the reaction dynamics from time-resolved X-ray data alone. To develop the techniques of time-resolved crystallography, biomolecules with special properties are required. The Photoactive Yellow Protein is the most sparkling of these.