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Micellization and Micellar Structure of a Poly(ethylene oxide)/Poly(propylene oxide)/Poly(ethylene oxide) Triblock Copolymer in Water Solution, As St…

1997

The micellization of the triblock copolymer Pluronic P85 (poly(oxyethylene)27/poly(oxypropylene)39/poly(oxyethylene)27) in aqueous solution was followed vs temperature and addition of aliphatic alcohols, using the spin probe technique. Different types of probes properly chosen (spin-labeled (SL) poly(oxyethylene(4))nonylphenol, SL-Pluronic L62, TEMPO-laurate, TEMPO-hexanoate, CAT 4, CAT 8, CAT 11, CAT 16, and 5-, 7-, 10-, and 12-doxylstearic acids) provided information about the micellar structure (polarity, viscosity, and order degree) at different radial locations. Micellization was found to be low at room temperature, even for 10% aqueous solutions, but strongly increasing with temperatu…

Polarity profiles in reverse micelles of Triton X-100, as studied by spin probe and absorption probe techniques

1997

The microenvironment characteristics — polarity, viscosity and order degree - in Triton X-100 reverse micelles (RM) in cyclohexane and benzene — n-hexane 30 : 70 (v/v), were investigated with the aid of a homologous series of cationic spin probes, CAT n, of 5- and 16-doxyl stearic acids and of a new absorption probe, 4-nitropyridine-N-oxide (NP). The spectral parameters were related to local hydration values by means of a series of poly(oxyethylene) (PEO)/water calibration mixtures. All results regarding the polarities in RM and calibration mixtures have been expressed in terms of Kosower's Z values, by determining the linear dependence of the transition energies of NP, ENP, on Z, for a ser…

Metalloporphyrin intercalation in liposome membranes: ESR study

2010

Liposomes characterized by membranes featuring diverse fluidity (liquid-crystalline and/or gel phase), prepared from egg yolk lecithin (EYL) and dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC), were doped with selected metalloporphyrins and the time-related structural and dynamic changes within the lipid double layer were investigated. Porphyrin complexes of Mg(II), Mn(III), Fe(III), Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II), Zn(II), and the metal-free base were embedded into the particular liposome systems and tested for 350 h at 24°C using the electron spin resonance (ESR) spin probe technique. 5-DOXYL, 12-DOXYL, and 16-DOXYL stearic acid methyl ester spin labels were applied to explore the interior of the lipid bila…

ESR study of the liposome membrane physical parameters in the heating-cooling cycles.

1998

Abstract Changes of dynamic and structural parameters of egg yolk lecithin (EYL) liposome mem­branes in the heating-cooling cycles have been studied using the E S R spin probe method. The investigations were conducted in the range of temperatures from -18 °C to +60 °C. It has been found that in the range of temperatures -15 °C to +45 °C in both the heating and the cooling run the spectroscopic parameters changed practically along the same curve (re­versible changes). However, after exceeding this range of temperatures one of the parameters (partition coefficient of the spin probe 2,2,6,6 -tetramethylpiperidine -1-oxyl; TEMPO) changed along a closed curve, showing the phenomenon of thermal h…

1982

ChemInform Abstract: Relaxation Phenomena of a Triplet Spin Probe in Glassy and Crystalline o-Terphenyl.

2010

The authors used quinoxaline in its photoexcited triplet state as a spin probe in order to measure the spin-lattice relaxation rate in o-terphenyl glass as a function of temperature. They found a power law with an exponent close to 2. Since o-terphenyl can easily be crystallized, they investigated the crystal, too. Below 3.5 K the spin is highly polarized, contrary to the behavior in the glass, where it reaches thermal equilibrium down to the lowest temperatures of their experiment (1.4 K). Around 3.5 K the polarization in the crystal vanishes. Above it appears with opposite sign due to thermal equilibration.

Micropolarity and Order in the Reverse Micelles of L62 and L64 Pluronic Copolymers, As Studied by Molecular Probe Techniques

1998

The reverse micelles of triblock copolymers poly(ethylene oxide)-block-poly(propylene oxide)-block-poly(ethylene oxide) EO6PO36EO6 (Pluronic L62) and EO13PO30EO13 (Pluronic L64) in ternary (copolymer/o-xylene/water) and binary (copolymer/water) systems with different water contents were evidenced and investigated by fluorescence, absorption, and spin probe techniques. The spectral parameters of the polarity sensitive probes, 1-anilinonaphthalene-8-sulfonic acid (ANS), dansylhexadecylamine (Dansyl), pyrenesulfonic acid (PSA), 4-nitropyridine N-oxide (NP) and 4-(N,N‘-dimethyl-N-alkyl)ammonium 2,2‘,6,6‘-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl iodide (CAT n), were related to the local hydration and polari…

Tunable dynamic hydrophobic attachment of guest molecules in amphiphilic core–shell polymers

2016

In this study, synthesis and dynamic properties of amphiphilic core–shell polymers are reported as monitored through their interaction with small amphiphilic molecules. Brush-like structures are formed with a hydrophobic core surrounded by a hydrophilic shell utilizing controlled radical addition–fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization of macromonomers consisting of linear polyglycerol chains attached to alkylene methacrylate. Continuous wave electron paramagnetic resonance (CW EPR) spectroscopy is employed to study how the amphiphilic, paramagnetic spin probe 16-DSA (16-doxyl stearic acid) interacts with polymers of different alkylene chain lengths in their hydrophobic cores and…

How Structure-Related Collapse Mechanisms Determine Nanoscale Inhomogeneities in Thermoresponsive Polymers

2012

Continuous wave electron paramagnetic resonance (CW EPR) spectroscopy on the amphiphilic spin probe TEMPO in solutions of selectively chosen functional, thermoresponsive poly(propylene oxide) (PPO)- and poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO)-based copolymers of both linear and branched structure is used to elucidate their host–guest interactions and inverse phase transitions. Three different fundamental types of host–guest interactions between probes and polymers could be correlated to the phase transition mechanisms (supported by MD simulations), evidencing that these proceed via nanoscale inhomogeneities of the polymers. Because of their ability to host small amphiphilic guest molecules, thermorespon…

Impact of Vanadium Complexes with Tetradentate Schiff Base Ligands on the DPPC and EYL Liposome Membranes: EPR Studies

2023

This paper investigates the effect of three vanadium complexes with Schiff base-type tetradentate ligands of general formula N,N′-1,2-cyclohexylenebis(3,5-dichlorosalicylideneiminate) (V1); LVCl2 (L = N,N′-1,2-cyclohexylenebis(5-chlorosalicylideneiminate) (V2); and N,N′-1,3propylenebis (salicylideneiminate) (V3) on the fluidity of liposome membranes obtained by the sonication of natural lecithin (EYL) and synthetic lecithin (DPPC). The study was carried out with TEMPO and 16DOXYL spin probes using the EPR technique. The results show that the effect of the complexes on the fluidity of liposomes whose membranes are in the liquid crystalline phase is much stronger as compared to the liposome m…