The Polymer Diagnostics Section (Code 6122) of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has expertise in solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR). In 1983, NRL established an interagency agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to advise the FAA on NMR methods to detect explosives. We were aware of ear...

Based on a new criterion that was proposed to search for the universality of spectroscopic constants for bound ground-state diatomics [R. H. Xie and P. S. Hsu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 243201 (2006)], we have found universal scaling relations between spectroscopic constants of diatomic systems with s-, p-, and d-type valence-shell constituents. Our study suggests a useful empirical approach for the...

the interactions between platinum complexes and human serum albumin (hsa) play crucial roles in the distribution, metabolism, and activity of platinum-based anticancer drugs. octahedral platinum (iv) complexes represent a significant class of anticancer agents that display molecular pharmacological properties different from cisplatin. in this study, the interaction between two pt(iv) complexes ...

Solvation is essential for protein activities. To study internal solvation of protein, site-directed mutagenesis is applied. Intrinsic fluorescent probe, tryptophan, is inserted into desired position inside protein molecule for ultrafast spectroscopic study. Here we review this unique method for protein dynamics researches. We introduce the frontiers of protein solvation, site-directed mutagene...