This presentation describes the surface micelles formed by self-organization of amphiphilic molecules at the solid/liquid interface, and reviews the methods of stabilizing the surface micelles by enhancing the intermolecular interaction or introducing covalent bonds in self-assemblies. This type of work may provide new avenues for fabricating organic nanostructure materials, as well as possible...

In the mol-ecule of the title compound, C(11)H(14)N(2)O(4), a bifurcated intra/intermolecular N-H⋯(O,O) hydrogen bond occurs.The intramolecular component results in a non-planar six-membered ring with a flattened-boat conformation. In the crystal structure, the inter-molecular interaction links the mol-ecules into chains parallel to the b axis.

We derive an instantaneous symmetry-preserving mean field equation relating the long-ranged component of the intermolecular interaction to an effective single particle potential. We verify the efficiency and accuracy of the symmetry-preserving mean field approach to treat complex nonuniform electrostatics and foresee its application to study self-assembly and disassembly processes at interfaces...

A non-perturbative scheme for complete decomposition of energy and charge associated with transfer interaction into pairwise additive components.

Soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) observes element-specific intermolecular interactions of light elements in liquid phase through the core-to-valence excitation. We have newly developed cells and devices with precise photoabsorbance control. demonstrate here their applications to XAS transmission measurement aqueous acetonitrile solutions fluorescence-yield microfluidic systems. can be u...

Carotenoids play the dual function of light harvesting and photoprotection in photosynthetic organisms. Despite their functional importance, the molecular basis for binding of carotenoids in the photosynthetic proteins is poorly understood. We have discovered that all carotenoids are surrounded either by aromatic residues or by chlorophylls in all known crystal structures of the photosynthetic ...

The interaction of human serum albumin with Ethyl 2-[2-(dimethylamino)-4-(4-nitrophenyl)- 1,3-thiazole-5-yl]-2-oxoacetate was investigated by using isothermal titration UV-visible spectrophotometry in tris-buffer, pH 7.4. According to these results, it was found that there are a set of 4 binding sites for this ligand on HSA with positive cooperativity in the binding process. This thiazole deriv...