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CAMBIOS DE pH DURANTE EL CONGELAMIENTO Y EL DERRETIMIENTO DEL AGUA Y SU RELACIÓN CON LA ELECTRICIDAD ATMOSFÉRICA
Descripción de experimentos y resultados orientados a encontrar la relación existente entre cambios de pH durante el congelamiento del agua y la generación de carga eléctrica en la atmósfera.Description of the experiments and the results made in the research in order to develate the relationship between changes in water pH during freezing, and the generation of electromotive forces in the atmosphere
Marriage record of Rodriguez, Lorenzo and Cardenas, Inocencia
Marriage license for Lorenzo Rodriguez and Inocencia Cardenas. Ph. deCarriere was the officiant
Marriage record of Rodriguez, Miguel and Sendoya Annie
Marriage license for Miguel Rodriguez and Annie Sendoya. Ph. de Carriere was the officiant
The marriage record of Menendez, Saturnino and Rodriguez, Dominga
Marriage license for Saturnino Menendez and Dominga Rodriguez. Ph. de Carriere was the officiant
An intracellular pH gradient in the anammox bacterium Kuenenia stuttgartiensis as evaluated by (31)P NMR
The cytoplasm of anaerobic ammonium oxidizing (anammox) bacteria consists of three compartments separated by membranes. It has been suggested that a proton motive force may be generated over the membrane of the innermost compartment, the “anammoxosome”. 31P nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy was employed to investigate intracellular pH differences in the anammox bacterium Kuenenia stuttgartiensis. With in vivo NMR, spectra were recorded of active, highly concentrated suspensions of K. stuttgartiensis in a wide-bore NMR tube. At different external pH values, two stable and distinct phosphate peaks were apparent in the recorded spectra. These peaks were equivalent with pH values of 7.3 and 6.3 and suggested the presence of a proton motive force over an intracytoplasmic membrane in K.stuttgartiensis. This study provides for the second time—after discovery of acidocalcisome-like compartments in Agrobacterium tumefaciens—evidence for an intracytoplasmic pH gradient in a chemotrophic prokaryotic cell.BiotechnologyApplied Science
The marriage record of Nosti, Lauriano Quidiello and Rodriguez, Margarita Morales
Marriage license for Lauriano Quidiello Nosti and Margarita Morales Rodriguez. Ph. de Carriere was the officiant
Molecular dynamics simulations of Ibuprofen release from pH-gated silica nanochannels
The iboprufen delivery process from cylindrical silica pores of diameter 3~nm, with polyamine chains anchored at the pore outlets,was investigated by means of massive molecular dynamics simulations. Effects from pH were introduced by considering polyamine chains with different degree of protonation. High, low and intermediate pH environments were investigated. The increment of the acidity of the environment leads to a significant decrease of the pore aperture, yielding an effective diameter, for the lowest pH case, that is 3.5~times smaller than the one associated to the highest pH one. Using a biased sampling procedure, Gibbs free energy profiles for the ibuprofen delivery process were obtained. The joint analysis of the corresponding profiles, time evolution of the ibuprofen position within the channel, orientation of the molecule and instantaneous effective diameter of the gate, suggests a 3-steps mechanism for ibuprofen delivery. A complementary analysis of the translational mobility of ibuprofen along the axial direction of the channel revealed a sub-diffusive dynamics in the low and intermediate pH cases.Deviations from Brownian diffusive dynamics are discussed and compared with direct experimental results. Fil: Rodriguez, Javier. Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica; Argentina. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Núcleo de Investigación en Educacion Ciencia y Tecnologia; ArgentinaFil: Elola, Maria Dolores. Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica; Argentin
Concept and development of an autonomous wearable micro-fluidic platform for real time pH sweat analysis
In this work the development of an autonomous, robust and wearable micro-fluidic platform capable of performing on-line analysis of pH in sweat is discussed. Through the means of an optical detection system based on a surface mount light emitting diode (SMD LED) and a light photo sensor as a detector, a wearable system was achieved in which real-time monitoring of sweat pH was performed during 55 minutes of cycling activity. We have shown how through systems engineering, integrating miniaturised electrical components, and by improving the micro-fluidic chip characteristics, the wearability, reliability and performance of the micro-fluidic platform was significantly improved
Thermodynamic analysis of (bi)sulphate adsorption on a Pt(111) electrode as a function of pH
A complete thermodynamic study of (bi)sulphate adsorption on Pt(1 1 1) electrodes from solutions at four different pHs (pH 0.43, 2.1, 3.1 and 4.1) is reported. The effect of pH on the sum of the Gibbs excesses of sulphate and bisulphate species, standard Gibbs energies of adsorption and formal partial charge numbers is analyzed. The results provide relevant information on the nature of species involved in the different voltammetric features. The experiments at pH 0.43 were performed in a higher base electrolyte concentration (0.5 M), that allows the study of (bi)sulphate adsorption in a broader range of concentrations. Under these conditions, two adsorption steps are clearly defined, associated to two different voltammetric features, between 0.30 and 0.60 V and between 0.65 and 0.90 V (standard hydrogen scale, SHE). Once the pH is increased, a marked decrease in absolute value of the (bi)sulphate adsorption Gibbs energy is observed, concomitant with an increasing amount of OH co-adsorptio
Mn2+ Complexes Containing Sulfonamide Groups with pH-Responsive Relaxivity
We present two ligands containing a N-ethyl-4-(trifluoromethyl)benzenesulfonamide group attached to either a 6,6′-(azanediylbis(methylene))dipicolinic acid unit (H3DPASAm) or a 2,2′-(1,4,7-triazonane-1,4-diyl)diacetic acid macrocyclic platform (H3NO2ASAm). These ligands were designed to provide a pH-dependent relaxivity response upon complexation with Mn2+ in aqueous solution. The protonation constants of the ligands and the stability constants of the Mn2+ complexes were determined using potentiometric titrations complemented by spectrophotometric experiments. The deprotonations of the sulfonamide groups of the ligands are characterized by protonation constants of log KiH = 10.36 and 10.59 for DPASAm3- and HNO2ASAm2-, respectively. These values decrease dramatically to log KiH = 6.43 and 5.42 in the presence of Mn2+, because of the coordination of the negatively charged sulfonamide groups to the metal ion. The higher log KiH value in [Mn(DPASAm)]- is related to the formation of a seven-coordinate complex, while the metal ion in [Mn(NO2ASAm)]- is six-coordinated. The X-ray crystal structure of Na[Mn(DPASAm)(H2O)]·2H2O confirms the formation of a seven-coordinate complex, where the coordination environment is fulfilled by the donor atoms of the two picolinate groups, the amine N atom, the N atom of the sulfonamide group, and a coordinated water molecule. The lower conditional stability of the [Mn(NO2ASAm)]- complex and the lower protonation constant of the sulfonamide group results in complex dissociation at relatively high pH (<7.0). However, protonation of the sulfonamide group in [Mn(DPASAm)]- falls into the physiologically relevant pH window and causes a significant increase in relaxivity from r1p = 3.8 mM-1 s-1 at pH 9.0 to r1p = 8.9 mM-1 s-1 at pH 4.0 (10 MHz, 25 °C)
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