Principal component regression (PCR) was used to develop calibration and prediction models for determination of mineral content of complex mineral mixtures by utilizing attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectra. The typical constituents of oil shale such as dawsonite, nahcolite, quartz, dolomite, illite, albite, analcime, and kerogen were used to prepare samples...

Supported lipid bilayers (SLBs) were prepared by deposition of unilamellar vesicles on a silicon substrate. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) and a new Multiple Transmission-Reflection Infrared Spectroscopy (MTR-IR) developed by us were used to trace the dynamic formation of lipid bilayers on the silicon surfaces. The evolution from deformation of vesicles to formation of bilayers can be distinguis...

Protonated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (HPAHs) have been reported to have infrared (IR) bands at wavenumbers near those of unidentified infrared (UIR) emission bands from interstellar objects. We produced 1-C16H11 + and 1-C16H11 upon electron bombardment during matrix deposition of p-H2 containing pyrene (C16H10) in a small proportion. Intensities of absorption features of 1-C16H11 + decre...

Context. Analysis of thermal dust emission spectra for dust mineralogy and physical grain properties depends on comparison spectra, which are either laboratory-measured infrared extinction spectra or calculated extinction cross sections based on certain grain models. Often, the agreement between these two kinds of spectra, if available, is not yet satisfactory because of the strong influence of...

We use infrared (IR) and Raman spectroscopies to investigate the optically active phonon modes in InP nanoparticles and InP/II–VI core-shell nanoparticles fabricated by similar colloidal chemistry methods. The IR transmission spectra of several InP nanoparticle samples exhibit a common absorption feature, which we assign to the Fröhlich mode. The Raman results for the same samples show transver...

The 37-residue human islet amyloid polypeptide (hIAPP or amylin) self-assembles into fibers, the assembly of which has been associated with the disease mechanism of type II diabetes. Infrared spectroscopy in conjunction with isotope labeling is proving to be a powerful tool for studying the aggregation process of hIAPP and other amyloid forming proteins with residue specific structure and kinet...

Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) and Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy were used to generate far-infrared and low-frequency spectral measurements of monomeric lysozyme and lysozyme fibrils. The formation of lysozyme fibrils was verified by the Thioflavin T assay and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). It was evident in the FT-IR spectra that between 150 and 350 cm(...

Time-resolved and spatially resolved infrared spectra (line images) of self-assembled monolayers of octadecylthiol (ODT) on gold substrates were investigated by planar array infrared (PA-IR) spectroscopy, with a grazing incidence reflection attachment. It was observed that PA-IR spectra with a good signal-to-noise ratio that is comparable to those obtained from Fourier transform infrared spectr...

Abstract We present mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectra from our continued monitoring of R Aquarii, the nearest symbiotic Mira, using Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). New photometric and spectroscipic data were obtained with Faint Object infraRed CAmera SOFIA Telescope in 2018 2019 after system had started its “eclipse,” during which it became two magnitudes fainter visual. T...

The gas-phase infrared spectra of four polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) cations have been recorded in the 10–50μm (or 1000–200 cm−1) spectral range via IR multiple photon dissociation (IRMPD) spectroscopy. Ionized PAHs are formed by UV laser ionization in an effusive beam and subsequently irradiated with a single pulse of narrowband tunable infrared light produced by the Free-Electron Lase...