A quinoline-based hexadentate ligand, (S,S)-N,N,N′,N′-tetrakis(6-methoxy-2-quinolylmethyl)-1,2-diphenylethylenediamine ((S,S)-6-MeOTQPh2EN), exhibits fluorescence enhancement at 498 nm upon addition of 1 equiv of Zn2+ (IZn/I0 = 12,… Continue reading Switching of Fluorescent Zn/Cd Selectivity in N,N,N′,N′-Tetrakis(6-methoxy-2-quinolylmethyl)-1,2-diphenylethylenediamine by One Asymmetric Carbon Atom Inversion
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
The effect of chemical-composition modification on the chiroptical property of chiral organic ammonium cation-containing organic inorganic hybrid perovskite (chiral OIHP)… Continue reading Chiral 2D Organic Inorganic Hybrid Perovskite with Circular Dichroism Tunable Over Wide Wavelength Range
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
Peptide-amphiphile (PA)-based supramolecular thixotropic hydrogels are useful in medical sciences due to multiple advantageous features along with its biocompatibility and… Continue reading pH and secondary structure instructed aggregation to a thixotropic hydrogel by a peptide amphiphile
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
The chemical formation of terpenes in nature is carried out by terpene synthases as the main biocatalysts to guide the… Continue reading Site-directed mutagenesis of β sesquiphellandrene synthase enhances enzyme promiscuity
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
The second messenger bis(3′,5′)-cyclic dimeric guanosine monophosphate (c-di-GMP) regulates numerous important physiological functions in bacteria. In this study, we identified… Continue reading Identification and Characterization of a Redox Sensor Phosphodiesterase from Ferrovum sp. PN-J185 Containing Bacterial Hemerythrin and HD-GYP Domains
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
Bio-hybrid light-emitting diodes (Bio-HLEDs) based on color down-converting filters with fluorescent proteins (FPs) have achieved moderate efficiencies (50 lm/W) and… Continue reading Long-living and highly efficient bio-hybrid light-emitting diodes with zero-thermal-quenching biophosphors
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
The relationship of i-motif DNAs with cancer has prompted the development of specific ligands to detect and regulate their formation.… Continue reading Preferential targeting cancer-related i-motif DNAs by the plant flavonol fisetin for theranostics applications
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
The LAH4 family of amphipathic peptides exhibits pronounced antimicrobial, cell penetrating and nucleic acid transfection activities. Furthermore, variants were designed… Continue reading Membrane pore-formation correlates with the hydrophilic angle of histidine-rich amphipathic peptides with multiple biological activities
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
β-Glucosidases (BGL) are key members of the cellulase enzyme complex that determine efficiency of lignocellulosic biomass degradation, which have shown… Continue reading Tyr320 is a molecular determinant of the catalytic activity of β-glucosidase from Neosartorya fischeri
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
The development of a strategy for the assembly of nanoscale building blocks, in particular, anisotropic nanoparticles, into desired structures is… Continue reading Strategy for Finely Aligned Gold Nanorod Arrays Using Polymer Brushes as a Template
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
The effect of heat and equivalent thermal effect () on discolouration of Spirulina algae extracts in water, sucrose and trehalose… Continue reading Role of saccharides on thermal stability of phycocyanin in aqueous solutions
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
Insulin, which is a small protein hormone consisting of 51 amino acids, rapidly fibrillates under stressogenic conditions. This biotechnological/medical problematic… Continue reading Mechanistic Assessment of Functionalized Mesoporous Silica-Mediated Insulin Fibrillation
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
The fluorescent modes and signs of the circularly polarized luminescence of an axially chiral binaphthyl–pyrene organic fluorophore were successfully controlled… Continue reading Nonclassical dual control of circularly polarized luminescence modes of binaphthyl–pyrene organic fluorophores in fluidic and glassy media†
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
Solid-state organic fluorescent materials are important for the development of electroluminescent sensing devices. Herein, we report that N,N′-bis((R)-1-phenylethyl)perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic diimide [(R,R)-BPP] and… Continue reading Solid-state AIEnh-circularly polarized luminescence of chiral perylene diimide fluorophores
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
Circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) spectroscopy measures the difference in luminescence intensity between left- and right-circularly polarized light, and is often… Continue reading Temperature-Dependent Circularly Polarized Luminescence Measurement Using KBr Pellet Method
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
Molecular pyrene, 1-hydroxylpyrene, and 2-hydroxypyrene in chloroform and embedded in poly(methyl methacrylate) film reveal mirror-image magnetic circularly polarized luminescence (MCPL)… Continue reading Non-classically Controlled Sign in a 1.6 Tesla Magnetic Circularly Polarized Luminescence of Three Pyrenes in a Chloroform and a PMMA Film
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
Five optically inactive EuIII(hfa)3, TbIII(hfa)3, EuIII(acac)3·Phen, TbIII(acac)3·Phen and EuIII(hfa)3·BDPB (hfa: hexafluoroacetylacetonate, acac: acetylacetonate, BDPB: 2,2′-bis(diphenylphosphino)biphenyl and Phen: phenanthroline) complexes showed… Continue reading Mirror-image magnetic circularly polarized luminescence (MCPL) from optically inactive EuIII and TbIIItris(β-diketonate)
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
C-phycoyanins are abundant light-harvesting pigments which have an important role in the energy transfer cascade of photosystems in prokaryotic cyanobacteria… Continue reading A thermophilic C-phycocyanin with unprecedented biophysical and biochemical properties
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
