Structure and state of water in reversed aerosol OT micelles: an infrared study

Author(s):  
G. Onori ◽  
M. D’Angelo ◽  
A. Santucci

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelena Munćan ◽  
Ivana Mileusnić ◽  
Jovana Šakota Rosić ◽  
Aleksandra Vasić-Milovanović ◽  
Lidija Matija

The functionality of soft contact lenses depends strongly on the water content and their water-transport ability. This study was conducted in order to examine the state of water in two sets of soft contact lenses: VSO38, pHEMA Filcon I 1, and VSO50, copolymer of HEMA and VP Filcon II 1 (HEMA = 2-hydroxy-ethyl methacrylate; VP = vinyl pyrrolidone). Hydrogel lenses were studied using near-infrared spectroscopy and the novel Aquaphotomics approach in order to determine the state of water in materials based on their near-infrared spectra. Aquaphotomics approach investigates absorption at specific vibrational bands of water’s covalent and hydrogen bonds which can provide information on how the water structure changes with the structural change of the polymer network. Principal component analysis and specific star-chart “aquagram” were used to analyse water spectral pattern in hydrogel materials. The findings show that material VSO38 has water predominantly organized in bound state, while material with higher water content, VSO50, has more free and weakly hydrogen bonded water. Our findings define in detail exact water species existing and interacting with the polymer network. The results show qualitative and quantitative possibilities of Aquaphotomics for better modelling and understanding water behaviour in hydrogel materials.



1992 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 519-523
Author(s):  
A. P. Zhukovskii ◽  
L. N. Petrov ◽  
N. V. Rovnov


1990 ◽  
Vol 163 ◽  
pp. 139-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Goto ◽  
H. Yoshioka ◽  
H. Kishimoto ◽  
T. Fujita


Langmuir ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 1889-1895 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiromi Kitano ◽  
Ken Ichikawa ◽  
Makoto Ide ◽  
Mitsuhiro Fukuda ◽  
Wataru Mizuno


1970 ◽  
Vol 48 (10) ◽  
pp. 1536-1542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Falk ◽  
A. G. Poole ◽  
C. G. Goymour

The state of water in the hydration shell of DNA was studied by infrared spectroscopy. The stretching bands of isotopically dilute HDO adsorbed on DNA have nearly the same band profiles as those of HDO in liquid water. This indicates a distribution of hydrogen-bond strengths similar to that in liquid water. At low temperatures, the spectra show that an inner layer of about 10 water molecules per nucleotide is incapable of crystallization, even when the surrounding water crystallizes into ice I. The biopolymer hydration shells are not "ice-like" in the sense of crystalline ordering into an ice-like structure.





2002 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 333-333
Author(s):  
S. K. Ghosh ◽  
D. K. Ojha ◽  
R. P. Verma


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