Insights into the Behaviour of Biomolecules on the Early Earth: The Concentration of Aspartate by Layered Double Hydroxide Minerals (2015)
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Grégoire, B., Erastova, V., Geatches, D. L., Clark, S. J., Greenwell, H. C., & Fraser, D. G. (2016). Insights into the Behaviour of Biomolecules on the Early Earth: The Concentration of Aspartate by Layered Double Hydroxide Minerals. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 176, 239-258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2015.12.026

The role of mineral surfaces in concentrating and facilitating the polymerisation of simple protobiomolecules during the Hadean and Archean has been the subject of much research in order to constrain the conditions that may have led to the origin of... Read More about Insights into the Behaviour of Biomolecules on the Early Earth: The Concentration of Aspartate by Layered Double Hydroxide Minerals.

Are there ergodic limits to evolution? Ergodic exploration of genome space and convergence (2015)
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McLeish, T. (2015). Are there ergodic limits to evolution? Ergodic exploration of genome space and convergence. Interface Focus, 5(6), Article 20150041. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2015.0041

We examine the analogy between evolutionary dynamics and statistical mechanics to include the fundamental question of ergodicity—the representative exploration of the space of possible states (in the case of evolution this is genome space). Several p... Read More about Are there ergodic limits to evolution? Ergodic exploration of genome space and convergence.

Dynamic Transmission of Protein Allostery without Structural Change: Spatial Pathways or Global Modes? (2015)
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McLeish, T., Cann, M., & Rodgers, T. (2015). Dynamic Transmission of Protein Allostery without Structural Change: Spatial Pathways or Global Modes?. Biophysical Journal, 109(6), 1240-1250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2015.08.009

We examine the contrast between mechanisms for allosteric signaling that involve structural change, and those that do not, from the perspective of allosteric pathways. In particular we treat in detail the case of fluctuation-allostery by which amplit... Read More about Dynamic Transmission of Protein Allostery without Structural Change: Spatial Pathways or Global Modes?.

A bifurcated molecular pentad capable of sequential electronic energy transfer and intramolecular charge transfer (2015)
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Harriman, A., Stachelek, P., Sutter, A., & Ziessel, R. (2015). A bifurcated molecular pentad capable of sequential electronic energy transfer and intramolecular charge transfer. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 17(39), 26175-26182. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5cp03932k

An extended molecular array, comprising three distinct types of chromophores and two additional redox-active subunits, that harvests photons over most of the visible spectral range has been synthesized and characterised. The array exhibits a rich var... Read More about A bifurcated molecular pentad capable of sequential electronic energy transfer and intramolecular charge transfer.

The role of protein-ligand contacts in allosteric regulation of the Escherichia coli Catabolite Activator Protein (2015)
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Townsend, P., Rodgers, T., Glover, L., Korhonen, H., Richards, S., Colwell, L., …Cann, M. (2015). The role of protein-ligand contacts in allosteric regulation of the Escherichia coli Catabolite Activator Protein. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 290(36), 22225-22235. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.m115.669267

Allostery is a fundamental process by which ligand binding to a protein alters its activity at a distant site. Both experimental and theoretical evidence demonstrate that allostery can be communicated through altered slow relaxation protein dynamics... Read More about The role of protein-ligand contacts in allosteric regulation of the Escherichia coli Catabolite Activator Protein.

Microemulsion Droplets in Optical Traps (2015)
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Hargreaves, A., Gregson, F., Kirby, A., Engelskirchen, A., & Bain, C. (2015). Microemulsion Droplets in Optical Traps. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 210(A), 9-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2015.06.028

Stepwise photoconversion of an artificial light-harvesting array built from extended BODIPY units (2015)
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Harriman, A., Stachelek, P., Sutter, A., & Ziessel, R. (2015). Stepwise photoconversion of an artificial light-harvesting array built from extended BODIPY units. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, 14(6), 1100-1109. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5pp00021a

A molecular dyad, comprising two disparate extended boron dipyrromethene (BODIPY) units, has been identified as a potential component of artificial light-harvesting arrays. Highly efficient, intramolecular electronic energy transfer takes place under... Read More about Stepwise photoconversion of an artificial light-harvesting array built from extended BODIPY units.

Infinitely Adaptive Transition-Metal Ordering in Ln2O2MSe2-Type Oxychalcogenides (2015)
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Ainsworth, C. M., Wang, C., Johnston, H. E., McCabe, E. E., Tucker, M. G., Brand, H. E., & Evans, J. S. (2015). Infinitely Adaptive Transition-Metal Ordering in Ln2O2MSe2-Type Oxychalcogenides. Inorganic Chemistry, 54(15), 7230-7238. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b00599

The origin of transition-metal ordering in Ln2O2MSe2 oxychalcogenides has been revealed by investigating a range of solid solutions. Transition-metal ordering is determined by the relative sizes of [Ln2O2]2+ and [MSe2]2− layers and can be exquisitely... Read More about Infinitely Adaptive Transition-Metal Ordering in Ln2O2MSe2-Type Oxychalcogenides.

Age-Dependent Modes of Extensional Necking Instability in Soft Glassy Materials (2015)
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Hoyle, D. M., & Fielding, S. M. (2015). Age-Dependent Modes of Extensional Necking Instability in Soft Glassy Materials. Physical Review Letters, 114(15), Article 158301. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.114.158301

We study the instability to necking of an initially cylindrical filament of soft glassy material subject to extensional stretching. By numerical simulation of the soft glassy rheology model and a simplified fluidity model, and by analytical predictio... Read More about Age-Dependent Modes of Extensional Necking Instability in Soft Glassy Materials.

Infinitely Adaptive Transition Metal Oxychalcogenides: The Modulated Structures of Ce2O2MnSe2 and (Ce0.78La0.22)2O2MnSe2 (2015)
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Wang, C., Ainsworth, C. M., Gui, D., McCabe, E. E., Tucker, M. G., Evans, I. R., & Evans, J. S. (2015). Infinitely Adaptive Transition Metal Oxychalcogenides: The Modulated Structures of Ce2O2MnSe2 and (Ce0.78La0.22)2O2MnSe2. Chemistry of Materials, 27(8), 3121-3134. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b00666

This article reports the syntheses, structures, and physical properties of the oxychalcogenides (Ce1–xLax)2O2MnSe2 with x = 0–0.7. These materials have a layered structure related to that of the LaOFeAs-derived superconductors but with the transition... Read More about Infinitely Adaptive Transition Metal Oxychalcogenides: The Modulated Structures of Ce2O2MnSe2 and (Ce0.78La0.22)2O2MnSe2.

Time-resolved phase-sensitive second harmonic generation spectroscopy (2015)
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Nowakowski, P. J., Woods, D. A., Bain, C. D., & Verlet, J. R. (2015). Time-resolved phase-sensitive second harmonic generation spectroscopy. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 142(8), https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4909522

A methodology based on time-resolved, phase-sensitive second harmonic generation (SHG) for probing the excited state dynamics of species at interfaces is presented. It is based on an interference measurement between the SHG from the sample and a loca... Read More about Time-resolved phase-sensitive second harmonic generation spectroscopy.

Global low-frequency motions in protein allostery: CAP as a model system (2015)
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Townsend, P., Rogers, T., Pohl, E., Wilson, M., McLeish, T., & Cann, M. (2015). Global low-frequency motions in protein allostery: CAP as a model system. Biophysical Reviews, 7(2), 175-182. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12551-015-0163-9

Allostery is a fundamental process by which ligand binding to a protein alters its activity at a distant site. There is considerable evidence that allosteric cooperativity can be communicated by the modulation of protein dynamics without conformation... Read More about Global low-frequency motions in protein allostery: CAP as a model system.

Printing Small Dots from Large Drops (2015)
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Talbot, E. L., Yow, H. N., Yang, L., Berson, A., Biggs, S. R., & Bain, C. D. (2015). Printing Small Dots from Large Drops. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 7(6), 3782-3790. https://doi.org/10.1021/am5087177

Printing of droplets of pure solvents containing suspended solids typically leads to a ring stain due to convective transport of the particles toward the contact line during evaporation of the solvent. In mixtures of volatile solvents, recirculating... Read More about Printing Small Dots from Large Drops.