scholarly journals The behaviour of visual purple at low temperature

Visual purple is soluble and stable in a mixture of glycerol and water (3:1). At room temperature the spectrum of such a solution is identical with that of the aqueous solution. At — 73° C the peak of the absorption curve is higher and narrower than at room temperature, and it is shifted towards longer waves. The product of photodecomposition at — 73° C has a spectrum in ­ dependent of pH and is at low temperatures thermostable and photostable, but at room temperature it decomposes therm ally to indicator yellow. The primary product appears to be identical with transient orange. The quantum yields of the photoreaction at low and at room temperature are of the same order.

1941 ◽  
Vol 130 (859) ◽  
pp. 217-225 ◽  

Visual purple is soluble and stable in a mixture of glycerol and water (3:1). At room temperature the spectrum of such a solution is identical with that of the aqueous solution. At — 73°C the peak of the absorption curve is higher and narrower than at room temperature, and it is shifted towards longer waves. The product of photodecom position at — 73°C has a spectrum in dependent of pH and is at low temperatures thermostable and photostable, but at room temperature it decomposes therm ally to indicator yellow. The primary product appears to be identical with transient orange. The quantum yields of the photoreaction at low and at room temperature are of the same order.


2012 ◽  
Vol 443-444 ◽  
pp. 583-586
Author(s):  
Ya Juan Sun ◽  
Ri Ga Wu ◽  
Hong Jing Wang

The mechanical properties of a new Zr-based bulk metallic glass at low temperatures were investigated. The results indicate that the fracture strength increases significantly (4.9%) and the global plasticity increases somewhat when testing temperature is lowered to 123K. The stress-strain curve of the sample deformed exhibits more serrations and smaller stress drop due to formation of more shear bands at low temperature than at room temperature.


1913 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 300-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Stotesbury Githens

In order to establish the influence of temperature upon the effect of varying doses of strychnin injected into frogs, the animals must be kept under observation for several days and at various definite degrees of temperature. Statements that the animal was kept "cold," "at room temperature," or "warm" are insufficient. With a certain dose tetanus may result constantly at 30° C. yet never appear at 21° C., and either of these temperatures might be described as warm, when compared to a room temperature of 15° C. Furthermore an animal may apparently fail to respond in the cold to an injection of certain doses of strychnin and yet be found in tetanic convulsions the next day. That an animal may have late, long lasting, or strong tetanus while kept at such a low temperature as 5° C. after an injection of a dose of strychnin smaller than 0.01 of a milligram per frog emphasizes the fact that great caution must be exercised in formulating laws as to the influence of temperature on drug action. The main results of this investigation may be summarized as follows: Doses of strychnin amounting to 0.0006 of a milligram per gram of frog will cause tetanus at all temperatures between 5° C. and 30° C., although at low temperatures the tetanus may appear late. A dose of 0.0003 of a milligram per gram of frog will frequently produce tetanus at 5° C. as well as at 30° or 27° C., but may nevertheless fail to produce any reaction at such an intermediary temperature as 21° C. Smaller doses, 0.0002 of a milligram per gram, will cause tetanus in the cold but not at high temperatures. It may be stated in general that in frogs kept at low temperatures the tetanic state sets in later, continues longer, and each tetanic attack is of longer duration, while in the interval between the attacks the state of tonus is higher and the animals are more irritable than when they are kept at higher temperatures.


1958 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 541-554 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. E. Beckel

Methods for collection in the laboratory of many thousands of eggs from field-collected, blood-fed females are described. Also a way of separating fertile from infertile eggs is outlined. When the eggs are laid they are white but begin to darken within one-half hour. The darkening did not occur when the egg cell or early embryo was killed.Two changes in permeability in the prediapause stage of the eggs of Aedcs hexodontus were observed. The first took place as the chorion changed from white to black. The egg lost and gained water easily when first laid but resisted water loss and uptake as the chorion darkened. However, a complete waterproofing did not result. With the formation of the transparent cuticle a further change in permeability occurred. The egg lost hardly any water even when exposed to extreme desiccation and what little water was lost was regained very slowly. However, the cuticle, with the chorion removed in sodium hypochlorite, was quite permeable. The impermeability of the chorion and cuticle combination must result from the bonding between the two and this bonding must be disrupted by the dechorionation.To study the obligate diapause that occurs in the late embryogeny of the mosquito egg the effect of making water available to the embryo, of light, and of low temperature was studied. Diapause was not broken when water was available to the embryo, nor did alternate periods of light and dark at room temperature or at lower temperatures disrupt the diapause. To test the influence of cold the temperature of 1° and −3 °C. were used to simulate the temperatures in the field. The low temperatures were found to terminate the diapause but the numbers of eggs hatching did not steadily increase with an increase in the time of exposure to cold. No clue has as yet been discovered to explain these results. A hatching infusion of decaying adult mosquito bodies in distilled water was found to give more hatching than did distilled water alone. The mechanism of the hatching stimulus is not known.


2000 ◽  
Vol 53 (10) ◽  
pp. 867 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin C. Lim ◽  
Brian W. Skelton ◽  
Allan H. White

Low-temperature (c. 153 K) single-crystal X-ray structure determinations, carried out on trivalent rare earth iodides crystallized from aqueous solution at room temperature, have defined two series of hydrates, LnI3.nH2O. For Ln = La–Ho, a nonahydrate phase (n = 9) is defined, orthorhombic Pmmn, a ~ 11.5, b ~ 8.0, c ~ 8.8 Å, Z = 2, the second phase (n = 10), monoclinic P21/c, Z = 4 being defined for Ln = Er–Lu, a ~ 8.2, b ~ 12.8, c ~ 17.1 Å, β ~ 103.7˚. Neither of these phases is isomorphous with any of those pertinent to the previously studied chloride or bromide (hydrated) arrays, nor, unlike those, does the halide (iodide) in any case enter the coordination sphere of the lanthanoid. The n = 9 phase takes the form [Ln(OH2)9]I3, the nine-coordinate lanthanoid environment stereochemistry being tricapped trigonal-prismatic, while the n = 10 phase is [Ln(OH2)8]I3.2H2O, the eight-coordinate lanthanoid environment being square-antiprismatic.


1985 ◽  
Vol 40 (5) ◽  
pp. 525-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Görner ◽  
A. Fojtik ◽  
J. Wróblewski ◽  
L. J. Currell

The trans → cis photoisomerization of a series of substituted stilbazolium salts (At+X− , At+: trans-1-alkyl-4-[4-R-styryl]-pyridinium and -quinolinium, R = CN. H, CH3 and OCH3, X− = I and ClO4−) was studied by laser flash photolysis and steady state irradiation measurements. The quantum yields of cis ⇄ trans photoisomerization (ϕc → t and ϕt → c ) and of fluorescence of the trans isomers (ϕf) were determined in several solvents at room temperature and at low temperatures in mixtures of either 2-methyltetrahydrofuran-dichloromethane or ethanolmethanol (E-M). In polar solvents at room temperature ϕt → c is substantial ( ≧ 0.3) and ϕf is small (10−3-10−2). Competition of fluorescence and an activated step in the trans → cis pathway is indicated by the effects of temperature on ϕf and ϕt → c (activation energy: 2 - 3 kcal/mol). A transient, observed only at low temperatures (lifetime τT > 0.5 ms in E-M below -170°C), is assigned to the lowest triplet state with trans configuration. On the basis of the effects of temperature on ϕf, ϕt → c , and the triplet yield and those of quenchers on ϕf and ϕt → c , involvement of the triplet state in the twisting process at room temperature is excluded. Therefore, a singlet mechanism is suggested for the trans → cis photoisomerization of the stilbazolium salts examined. Significant reduction of ϕt → c for iodides in solvents of moderate polarity, where ion pairs are present, is accounted for by photoinduced electron transfer in competition to trans → cis photoisomerization.


2018 ◽  
Vol 232 (9-11) ◽  
pp. 1495-1511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oleg V. Kozlov ◽  
Rohan Singh ◽  
Bing Ai ◽  
Jihong Zhang ◽  
Chao Liu ◽  
...  

Abstract Semiconductor doped glasses had been used by the research and engineering communities as color filters or saturable absorbers well before it was realized that their optical properties were defined by tiny specs of semiconductor matter known presently as quantum dots (QDs). Nowadays, the preferred type of QD samples are colloidal particles typically fabricated via organometallic chemical routines that allow for exquisite control of QD morphology, composition and surface properties. However, there is still a number of applications that would benefit from the availability of high-quality glass-based QD samples. These prospective applications include fiber optics, optically pumped lasers and amplifiers and luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs). In addition to being perfect optical materials, glass matrices could help enhance stability of QDs by isolating them from the environment and improving heat exchange with the outside medium. Here we conduct optical studies of a new type of all-inorganic CsPbBr3 perovskite QDs fabricated directly in glasses by high-temperature precipitation. These samples are virtually scattering free and exhibit excellent waveguiding properties which makes them well suited for applications in, for example, fiber optics and LSCs. However, the presently existing problem is their fairly low room-temperature emission quantum yields of only ca. 1%–2%. Here we investigate the reasons underlying the limited emissivity of these samples by conducting transient photoluminescence (PL) and absorption measurements across a range of temperatures from 20 to 300K. We observe that the low-temperature PL quantum yield of these samples can be as high as ~25%. However, it quickly drops (in a nearly linear fashion) with increasing temperature. Interestingly, contrary to traditional thermal quenching models, experimental observations cannot be explained in terms of a thermally activated nonradiative rate but rather suggest the existence of two distinct QD sub-ensembles of “emissive” and completely “nonemissive” particles. The temperature-induced variation in the PL efficiency is likely due to a structural transformation of the QD surfaces or interior leading to formation of extremely fast trapping sites or nonemissive phases resulting in conversion of emissive QDs into nonemissive. Thus, future efforts on improving emissivity of glass-based perovskite QD samples might focus on approaches for extending the range of stability of the low-temperature highly emissive structure/phase of the QDs up to room temperature.


2007 ◽  
Vol 131-133 ◽  
pp. 253-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Carvalho ◽  
R. Jones ◽  
C. Janke ◽  
Sven Öberg ◽  
Patrick R. Briddon

The properties of point defects introduced by low temperature electron irradiation of germanium are investigated by first-principles modeling. Close Frenkel pairs, including the metastable fourfold coordinated defect, are modelled and their stability is discussed. It is found that damage evolution upon annealing below room temperature can be consistently explained with the formation of correlated interstitial-vacancy pairs if the charge-dependent properties of the vacancy and self-interstitial are taken into account. We propose that Frenkel pairs can trap up to two electrons and are responsible for conductivity loss in n-type Ge at low temperatures.


1961 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare Bradley

Observations were made on the effect of low temperatures (down to 0° C) on the response of Phocanema to external polarizing stimuli. The response to anodal stimulation (contraction) was not affected by a fall in temperature. The response to a cathodal stimulus varied with the temperature, and whereas at room temperature the response was a relaxation, at low temperatures it was either a contraction or it was blocked altogether. Storage of the worm at low temperature for several hours had a similar effect. In some cases spontaneous rhythmical activity ceased as the temperature fell; this effect was shown to be independent of the effect of low temperature on the response to cathodal stimulation. No associated morphological changes in the neuromuscular system were observed.


1940 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 830-830
Author(s):  
Adolf Schallamach

Abstract While examining the possibilities of applying rubber in low temperature work, we were hampered by the lack of available data on its physical properties at low temperatures. We were aware of the difficulties to be expected in making accurate measurements in that temperature region, and this applied especially to the heat conductivity, in which we were particularly interested. To obtain at least an estimate of the order of magnitude, we carried out some measurements of the heat conductivity of commercial rubber (North British tire rubber) at room temperature and at the temperature of liquid air.


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