Two types of photoreceptors are found in the median ocellus of Limulus. One type is maximally sensitive to ultraviolet (UV) light, the other to green light; they are called UV and VIS cells, respectively. Biphasic receptor potentials, consisting of a small initial hyperpolarizing phase and a later slow depolarizing phase, can be recorded from both receptor types. These biphasic responses are el...

Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) observations were conducted on a CM 120 transmission electron microscope (Philips, Netherlands) at an acceleration voltage of 80 kV. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images were obtained on a TS-5136MM scanning electron microscope (Tescan, Czech) at an accelerating voltage of 20 kV. Ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) absorption spectra were measured on a UV-25...

Investigations into V-agent interaction with 1,10-phenanthroline nitrate Ln(III) complexes (Eu and Tb) were carried out using luminescence and UV-Vis spectroscopy. Addition of several equivalents of agent resulted in the loss of luminescence intensity and the observation of free 1,10-phenanthroline by UV-Vis. We propose a displacement mechanism in which the V-agent acts as a bidentate ligand to...

A dynamic combinatorial library of metal-dye complexes was obtained by reacting aqueous solutions of the dyes Methyl Calcein Blue, Arsenazo I, and Xylenol Orange with CuCl(2) and NiCl(2). The mixture gave a characteristic UV-Vis response upon addition of the peptide hormones angiotensin I and angiotensin II. This allowed distinguishing pure samples of peptide hormones from mixtures. The discrim...

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Two new classes of dendrimers bearing 8 and 32 fluorene donor groups have been synthesized. The first and second generations of these porphyrin-PAMAM-fluorene dendrimers were characterized by 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, FTIR, UV-vis spectroscopy, elemental analyses and MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. The UV-vis spectra showed that the individual properties of donor and acceptor moieties were preserved, indic...

UV–VIS spectroscopy is applied to study the structural and especially morphological particularities of silver nanoclusters-phosphate glass composites from the dispersed phase perspective. The electronic absorption measurements performed on several types of phosphate glasses with different Ag2O content indicate the existence of both silver nanoparticles of various dimensions and shapes, and Ag i...