Literature Citations

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• Linker-mediated phase behavior of DNA-coated colloids

  J. Lowensohn, B. Oyarzun, and G. Paliza, arXiv preprint (2019)

  “…We measure directly the standard enthalpy change ∆H and entropy change ∆S of hybridization for all linkers using ultraviolet (UV) spectrometry, following the procedure outlined in Ref. [4]. Our experimental setup consists of a UV light source (DH-2000-BAL, Ocean Optics), a temperature-controlled cuvette holder (qpod, Quantum Northwest), and a spectrometer (Flame-S-UV-Vis-ES, Ocean Optics)…”

• Pathway Complexity in the Stacking of Imine-linked Macrocycles Related to Two-Dimensional Covalent Organic Frameworks

  S. Wang, A. Chavez, S. Thomas, H. Li, N. Flanders, C. Sun, M. Strauss, L. Chen, A. Markvoort, J. Bredas, and W. Dichtel, ChemRxiv (2019)

  “…- NIR spectrophotometer with a mercury lamp. Cuvette temperature and stirring were regulated with a Quantum Northwest Temperature Controller. Circular dichroism measurements were taken on Jasco J-815 CD instrument. PDA and…”

• Photoswitchable Affinity Reagents: Computational Design and Efficient Red‐Light Switching

  N. Yasuike, K. Blacklock, H. Lu, A. Jaikaran, S. McDonald, M. Uppalapati, S. Khare, and G. Woolley, ChemPhotoChem (2019)

  “…UV‐Visible spectra were obtained using a Perkin‐Elmer Lambda 35 spectrophotometer or a diode array UV‐Vis spectrophotometer (Ocean Optics Inc., USB4000). Temperature was maintained at 22 °C for all measurements (Quantum Northwest), using 10 mm or 1.5 mm quartz cuvettes (Hellma Analytics)…”

• N-linked glycans confer protein stability and modulate multidrug efflux pump assembly in Campylobacter jejuni

  S. Abouelhadid, J. Raynes, T. Bui, J. Cuccui, and B. Wren, bioRxiv (2019)

  “…All CD spectra of gCmeA and CmeA were acquired in 0.5mm rectangular cell 742 pathlength using Chirascan spectrometer (Applied Biophysics, UK) equipped with 743 Quantum NorthWest TC125 Peltier unit…”

• Laser cooling under ambient conditions in Yb3+:KYW

  L. Andre, L. Cheng, A. Salkeld, L. Andrade, S. Lima, J. Silva, and S. Rand, Photonic Heat Engines: Science and Applications (2019)

  “…DLT signals were measured in the spectral range 960-975 nm for Yb:YAG and were calibrated by direct heating or cooling of the sample using a temperature controller (Quantum Northwest Flash 300) with an accuracy of ±0.01 K. For each temperature point in the calibration…”

• Variable-Temperature Resonance Raman Studies to Probe Interchain Ordering for Semiconducting Conjugated Polymers with Different Chain Curvature

  J. Sutton, T. Nguyen, H. Woo, and K. Gordon, Chem Asian J (2019)

  “…For the variable temperature resonance Raman data the aforementioned resonance Raman system was reconfigured into a 180° backscattering arrangement and a variable temperature cuvette holder and temperature controller (TC125, Quantum Northwest, USA)…”

• First synthesis of highly chemiluminescent benzo[b]furan-2-(3H)-ones bearing a urea substructure

  R. Krieg, B. Hoffmann, D. Weiß, and C. Biskup, Helv. Chim. Acta, (2019)

  “…Temperature was monitored by a controller (TC 425, Quantum Northwest, USA)…”

• Extracting the protein dynamics of bovine serum albumin in the native condition using confocal fluorescent temperature jump

  K. Tseng, and L. Chu, Journal of Applied Physics, 125, 084701 (2019)

  “…A thermostat (Quantum Northwest, qpod TC125) was mounted on the sample compartment to adjust the steady-state temperatures at 25–51 °C…”

• Simple protocol for sequence-specific detection of mixed-base nucleic acids using a smart probe with NABs

  S. Oladepo, and B. Yusuf, Anal. Biochem. 568, 53-56 (2019)

  “…controlled fluorescence measurements were carried out on solutions of SP or SP-target duplexes using a thermo-electrically cooled sample holder plugged into the fluorescence spectrophotometer and a TC125 Temperature Control unit (Quantum Northwest Inc., Liberty…”

• Different effects of Forsythia suspensa metabolites on bovine serum albumin (BSA)

  Y. Li, Q. Guo, Y. Yan, T. Chen, C. Du, and H. Du, Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc, 214, 309-319 (2019)

  “… 2.4. CD measurements. Circular dichroism (CD) measurements were performed in Tris buffer of pH 7.4 with a spectropolarimeter (Applied Photophysics, Chirascan, UK) at 25 °C, which was kept by a Quantum Northwest temperature controller…”

• Interaction of a red emitting dye with pluronic surfactants: A spectroscopic study

  S. Ahmed, U. Singh, and D. Seth, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 376, 247-254 (2019)

  “…For the variation of temperature and to maintain the temperature of the solution for time-resolved measurement, we have used Peltier-controlled cuvette holders from Quantum Northwest (Model: TLC-50). 3. Results and Discussion. 3.1. Steady-State Absorption studies…”

• A combined calorimetric, spectroscopic and molecular dynamic simulation study on the inclusion complexation of (E)-piceatannol with hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin in various alcohol + water cosolvents

  C. Cai, M. Liu, H. Yan, Y. Zhao, Y. Shi, Q. Guo, W. Pei, J. Han, and Z. Wang, The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, 132, 341-351 (2019)

  “…nm. The excitation and emission slits were 5 and 2.5 nm, respectively. The external electronic temperature control device (model TC-1S, Quantum Northwest, Inc., USA) was used to control the experimental temperature. The…”

• Photophysical features and semiconducting properties of propeller-shaped oligo(styryl)benzenes

  M. Moral, R. Domínguez, M. Fernández-Liencres, A. Garzón-Ruiz, J. García-Martínez, and A. Navarro, J Chem Phys, 150, 064309 (2019)

  “…A temperature-controlled cuvette holder, TLC 50 (Quantum Northwest), was used for the measurements…”

• Crystal violet adsorption by oppositely twisted heat-treated halloysite and pecoraite nanoscrolls

  A. Krasilin, D. Danilovich, E. Yudina, S. Bruyere, J. Ghanbaja, and V. Ivanov, Applied Clay Science, 173, 1-11 (2019)

  “…Kinetic studies were carried out using a modular system consisting of a Xe light source (Mikropack HPX-2000), temperature-controlled cuvette holder with magnetic stirrer (Quantum Northwest TC 125), attenuator, optical fibre connectors (Ocean Optics QP600-1-SR)…”

• Probing the Interactions of 1-Alkyl-3-methylimidazolium Tetrafluoroborate (Alkyl = Octyl, Hexyl, Butyl, and Ethyl) Ionic Liquids with Bovine Serum Albumin: An Alkyl Chain Length-Dependent Study

  M. Islam, S. Barik, and M. Sarkar, J Phys Chem B, 123, 1512-1526 (2019)

  “…A Quantum Northwest (TC 125) temperature controller was used to maintain the temperature by circulating water through the cell holder. All of the samples were excited at 280 nm for collecting the corrected fluorescence emission spectra…”

• Photochemistry of Bacteriorhodopsin with Various Oligomeric Statuses in Controlled Membrane Mimicking Environments: A Spectroscopic Study from Femtoseconds to Milliseconds

  Y. Kao, C. Cheng, M. Syue, H. Huang, I. Chen, T. Yu, and L. Chu, J Phys Chem B, 123, 2032-2039 (2019)

  “…A deuterium/tungsten halogen lamp (DH-2000, Ocean Optics) served as the stationary probing light and was introduced via an optical fiber (QP400−025-SR, Ocean Optics) to a cell compartment with a thermostat (qpod, Quantum Northwest) at 25 °C…”

• Impact of branching unit structure on the cloud point of highly branched polymers with lower critical solution temperature behavior

  Z. Wang, S. Seger, and N. Tsarevsky, European Polymer Journal, (2019)

  “…Transmittance spectra were recorded on Shimadzu UV−3600 spectrophotometer equipped with a Quantum Northwest TC225 temperature controller and a Fisher Scientific Isotemp 3006D refrigerated bath, which allowed for maintaining constant and identical temperatures…”

• Micellar solubilisation of methylparaben in poloxamines: Effects on the aggregation behaviour and reactivity

  A. Zornoza, L. Moreno, J. Puig-Rigall, L. Porcar, and G. González-Gaitano, Journal of Molecular Liquids, 282, 205-212 (2019)

  “…2.4. UV-visible spectroscopy. An Agilent 8453 diode array spectrophotometer with a Quantum Northwest t2 sport/8454 temperature-controlled cuvette holder was employed to record the UV-visible spectra (2 nm resolution). 2.5. Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy…”

• Photophysics, rotational dynamics and fluorescence lifetime imaging study of coumarin dyes in deep eutectic solvent

  R. Gautam, A. Chatterjee, and D. Seth, Journal of Molecular Liquids, (2019)

  “…; – The lamp profile (IRF) was recorded by placing a scatterer (a diluted solution of milk in water) in place of the sample. Temperature variation was carried out by using the Peltier-controlled cuvette holders from the Quantum Northwest (model: TLC-50)…”

• Assessment of doxorubicin delivery devices based on tailored bare polycaprolactone against glioblastoma

  E. Niza, J. Castro-Osma, I. Posadas, C. Alonso-Moreno, I. Bravo, A. Garzón, J. Canales-Vázquez, V. Ceña, A. Lara-Sánchez, J. Albaladejo, and A. Otero, Int J Pharm, 558, 110-119 (2019)

  “…; – light source. A quartz cuvette (Hellma Analytics) of 1 cm was used for the measurements. Temperature was controlled at 300 K by a temperature-controlled cuvette holder, TLC 50 (Quantum Northwest). Excitation and emission…”

• Crowder induced structural modulation of a multi-domain protein during its early stages of aggregation: A FRET-based and protein solvation study

  S. Karmakar, S. Mukherjee, H. Lal, S. Biswas, P. Jani, and P. Chowdhury, Int. J. Biol. Macromol., 127, 563-574 (2019)

  “…experiments. During all the emission measurements, sample jacket temperature was maintained at 20 °C using a Peltier based automated temperature controller (Quantum Northwest). 2.6. Time resolved fluorescence measurements…”

• Light-controlled carotenoid transfer between water-soluble proteins related to cyanobacterial photoprotection

  Y. Slonimskiy, F. Muzzopappa, E. Maksimov, A. Wilson, T. Friedrich, D. Kirilovsky, and N. Sluchanko, FEBS J. (2019)

  “…The temperature of the samples was stabilized by a Peltier-controlled cuvette holder Qpod 2e (Quantum Northwest, USA) with a magnetic stirrer. Amplitudes of photoconversion and the corresponding rates were estimated according to procedures described earlier…”

• Utility of fluorescent heme analogue ZnPPIX to monitor conformational heterogeneity in vertebrate hexa-coordinated globins

  A.Tangar, V. Derrien, R. Lei, M. Santiago Estevez, P. Sebban, S. Bernad, and J. Miksovska, Metallomics (2019)

  “…Tech Co. Ltd.) was centered on the deoxygenated sample housed in a sealed quartz cuvette in a temperature controlled cuvette holder (Quantum Northwest, Liberty Lake, WA). Emerging light was Page 2 of 9 Metallomics 1…”

• A fluorescence study of the loading and time stability of doxorubicin in sodium cholate/PEO-PPO-PEO triblock copolymer mixed micelles

  E. Tasca, A. Giudice, L. Galantini, K. Schillén, A. Giuliani, and M. Giustini, J Colloid Interface Sci, 540, 593-601 (2019)

  “…Steady state fluorescence measurements were performed on a Fluoromax 2 instrument (Horiba-Jobin Yvon) using 1.0×1.0 cm quartz cuvette from Hellma, equipped with a Peltier thermostatted LUMA 40/JY1 sample holder (Quantum Northwest) controlled by the TC1…”

• Proline 411 biases the conformation of the intrinsically disordered plant UVR8 photoreceptor C27 domain altering the functional properties of the peptide

  M. Wu, D. Farkas, L. Eriksson, and A. Strid, Sci Rep, 9, 818 (2019)

  “…entioned statement. Circular dichroism All measurements were conducted with a 33 μM peptide sample in deionized water (pH 6) using a Chirascan CD spectrometer (Applied Photophysics) equipped with a Quantum Northwest Peltier unit. Spectra were acquired using a bandwidth of 1 or 0.8 nm between 260–185 nm averaging 0.8 s per point. Each spectrum is the average of five repeats. The 1 mm cu…”

• The Structure and Stability of the Disulfide-Linked γS-Crystallin Dimer Provide Insight into Oxidation Products Associated with Lens Cataract Formation

  D. Thorn, A. Grosas, P. Mabbitt, N. Ray, C. Jackson, and J. Carver, J. Mol. Biol., 431, 483-497 (2019)

  “…Experiments were performed using an Applied Photophysics Chirascan spectrophotometer attached to a Quantum Northwest TC 125 PELTIER temperature controller…”

• Intravenous treatment of choroidal neovascularization by photo-targeted nanoparticles

  Y. Wang, C. Liu, T. Ji, M. Mehta, W. Wang, E. Marino, J. Chen, and D. Kohane, Nat Commun, 10, 804 (2019)

  “… a multi-channel Universal LED controller (Mightex Systems, CA, USA). The temperature of the solution was controlled at 37 °C in a t50/Eclipse cuvette holder with a TC 125 temperature controller (Quantum Northwest, WA, USA). The LED irradiance was measured with a PM100USB Power and Energy Meter (ThorLabs, NJ, USA). At each irradiation time point, the solution was put in an Amicon® Ultra centr…”

• Structure-Based Peptide Inhibitor Design of Amyloid-β Aggregation

  J. Lu, Q. Cao, C. Wang, J. Zheng, F. Luo, J. Xie, Y. Li, X. Ma, L. He, D. Eisenberg, J. Nowick, L. Jiang, and D. Li, Front Mol Neurosci, 12, 54 (2019)

  “…- Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy (CD). Chirascan spectrometer (Applied Photophysics) equipped with a Peltier temperature controller (Quantum Northwest) is used to acquire the CD spectra. Far UV spectra (240-180 nm) are collected in 0.05 cm path-length quartz Cached…”

• Pseudo-Polyrotaxanes of Cyclodextrins with Direct and Reverse X-Shaped Block Copolymers: A Kinetic and Structural Study

  J. Puig-Rigall, R. Serra-Gómez, I. Stead, I. Grillo, C. Dreiss, and G. González-Gaitano, Macromolecules, 52, 1458-1468 (2019)

  “…Samples were placed in 1 cm path length quartz cuvettes with magnetic stirring and temperature control incorporated (±0.1 °C, Quantum Northwest TC 1 accessory)…”

• Lower Critical Solution Temperature in Polyelectrolyte Complex Coacervates

  S. Ali, M. Bleuel, and V. Prabhu, ACS Macro Lett., 8, 289-293 (2019)

  “…Samples in spectroscopic glass cuvettes were measured in a Quantum Northwest QPod unit with the temperature controlled to 0.01 °C precision…”

• Engineered amine dehydrogenase exhibits altered kinetic mechanism compared to parent with implications for industrial application

  R. Franklin, J. Whitley, J. Robbins, and A. Bommarius, Chemical Engineering Journal, 369, 634-640 (2019)

  “…The reaction was initiated by addition of buffer, and the ΔA 340 was monitored for 30 seconds at 25°C using a Cary 8454 UV-Vis (Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA) equipped with a Quantum Northwest TC 1 Temperature Controller…”

• Decoupling Theranostics with Rare Earth Doped Nanoparticles

  A. Skripka, V. Karabanovas, G. Jarockyte, R. Marin, V. Tam, M. Cerruti, R. Rotomskis, and R. Vetrone, Adv. Funct. Mater., 29, 1807105 (2019)

  “…The temperature was changed using a temperature controlled cuvette holder (qpod 2e by Quantum Northwest, Washington, USA)…”

• Protein-Engineered Nanoscale Micelles for Dynamic 19F Magnetic Resonance and Therapeutic Drug Delivery

  L. Hill, J. Frezzo, P. Katyal, D. Hoang, Z. Ben Youss Gironda, C. Xu, X. Xie, E. Delgado-Fukushima, Y. Wadghiri, and J. Montclare, ACS Nano 13, 2969-2985 (2019)

  “…Proteins were characterized for their inverse transition temperature (Tt ) behavior at 320 nm using a UV−vis Cary-50 (Varian Inc.) equipped with a TC125 temperature regulator (Quantum Northwest)…”

• Oxyphor 2P: A High-Performance Probe for Deep-Tissue Longitudinal Oxygen Imaging

  T. Esipova, M. Barrett, E. Erlebach, A. Masunov, B. Weber, and S. Vinogradov, Cell Metab. 29, 736-744.e7 (2019)

  “…To establish independence of the phosphorescence decay time on the excitation pathway (2P vs 1P), the probe solution in a quartz optical cell (1cm path length) was placed in a temperature controlled chamber (Quantum Northwest) and excited by short ( 1ms-long) pulse trains from the laser at the wavelength matching the probe’s 2PA maximum…”

• Miscellaneous Multivariate Raman Spectroscopy Projects Including Hydrated Proton Characterization

  L. Streacker, Thesis. (2018)

  “…- The sample lies in a temperature controlled sample holder (LC-600, Quantum Northwest) with an adjustable temperature range of 0°C through 105°C. Back-scattered radiation from the sample passes through the 10° longpass…”

• Programming of Retention Capacity and Release Capabilities of Propargyl Acrylate Nanoparticles Decorated with Poloxamer Copolymer

  O. Klep, Thesis. (2018)

  “…Lifetime measurements were collected using a JobinYvon Fluorolog 3-222 Tau spectrometer. Photoluminescence dependence on temperature was measured using PTI spectrometer equipped with Quantum Northwest TC125 temperature control unit using 10 mm quartz cuvette…”

• Cohesin-dockerin interaction based method to facilitate fast domain shuffling of cellobiohydrolases

  E. Kiviniemi, Thesis. (2018)

  “…Thermostability of the proteins and the protein complex was studied with circular dichroism (CD). The proteins’ CD spectra at different temperatures were measured with Chirascan CD Spectrometer (Applied Photophysics, United Kingdom), using QS High Precision Cell 1 mm light path quatz SUPRASIL cuvette (100-1-40, Hellma Analytics, Germany) and TC125 temperature control heater (Quantum Northwest, USA) and AWC100 recirculating cooler (Julabo, Germany) to control the sample temperature…”

• Is a constant low-entropy process at the root of glycolytic oscillations?

  H. Thoke, L. Olsen, L. Duelund, R. Stock, T. Heimburg, and L. Bagatolli, J Biol Phys. (2018)

  “…Changes in cell size/shape were measured as light scattering using a 636.2 nm picosecond pulsed diode laser (Edinburgh Instruments, Edinburgh, Scotland), (1 μs between pulses) mounted on an Edinburgh FL920 Spectrofluorometer (Edinburgh Instruments, Edinburgh, Scotland) equipped with a temperature-controlled cuvette holder (Quantum Northwest). Sample volume was 2 ml and the temperature was 25 °C. For these measurements, the spectrofluorometer was operated in dark-mode, i.e., with the lamp switched off. Measurements were done in (at least) triplicates…”

• Formation of hemoglobin photoproduct is responsible for two-photon and single photon-excited fluorescence of red blood cells

  E. Shirshin, B. Yakimov, S. Rodionov, N. Omelyanenko, A. Priezzhev, V. Fadeev, J. Lademann, and M. Darvin, Laser Phys. Lett. 15, 075604 (2018)

  “…- Fluorescence spectra and excitation-emission matrices (EEMs) were measured using the FluoroMax-4 spectrofluorometer (Horiba Jobin-Yvon, Japan-France) with the installed Peltier-based cuvette holder (Quantum Northwest, USA)…”

• Temperature dependence of the absorbance of 185 nm photons by water and commonly occurring solutes and its influence on the VUV advanced oxidation process

  A. Serrano Mora, and M. Mohseni, Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol. (2018)

  “…- A thermostated cuvette holder (T2, Quantum Northwest) coupled with a temperature controller (TC1, Quantum Northwest) was used to maintain the solution inside the quartz cuvette (0.2, 0.5 & 1.0 cm, Starna) at the desired temperature…”

• Duplication of a Single Strand in a β-Sheet Can Produce a New Switching Function in a Photosensory Protein

  A. Kumar, S. Nokhrin, R. Woloschuk, and G. Woolley, Biochemistry. (2018)

  “…UV-Vis spectrophotometer (Ocean Optics Inc. USB4000), in each case coupled to a temperature controlled cuvette holder (Quantum Northwest, Inc.). Protein concentrations were determined using an extinction coefficient at λmax (~446 nm) of 45 x 10…”

• Aggregation-primed molten globule conformers of the p53 core domain provide potential tools for studying p53C aggregation in cancer

  M. Pedrote, G. de Oliveira, A. Felix, M. Mota, M. Marques, I. Soares, A. Iqbal, D. Norberto, A. Gomes, E. Gratton, E. Cino, and J. Silva, J. Biol. Chem. (2018)

  “…agitation. The reactions were performed in a 1 mL volume in a square cell equipped with magnetic stirrers (Hellma, #109004F-10-40), and temperature was controlled (Quantum Northwest, #TC125) at 37°C throughout the assay…”

• Complexation of Trivalent Lanthanides (Eu) and Actinides (Cm) with Aqueous Phosphates at Elevated Temperatures

  N. Jordan, M. Demnitz, H. Lösch, S. Starke, V. Brendler, and N. Huittinen, Inorg Chem. 57, 7015-7024 (2018)

  “…The sample temperature was kept constant at the desired temperature in a heatable cuvette holder (Quantum Northwest TL 125) during the complete duration of the measurement. The laser spectroscopic measurements were performed with a pulsed Nd:YAG (Continuum Surelite II) pump laser coupled to a solid-state optical parametric oscillator (OPO, PANTHER EX OPO, Continuum)…”

• Speciation of Reactive Sulfur Species and their Reactions with Alkylating Agents: Do we have any clue about what is present inside the cell?

  V. Bogdándi, T. Ida, T. Sutton, C. Bianco, T. Ditrói, G. Koster, H. Henthorn, M. Minnion, J. Toscano, A. van der Vliet, M. Pluth, M. Feelisch, J. Fukuto, T. Akaike, and P. Nagy, Br. J. Pharmacol. (2018)

  “…Inorganic polysulfide speciation in non-aqueous systems (Fig 10 and Table 2) UV-Vis measurements UV-Vis measurements were performed on a Cary 100 spectrophotometer equipped with a Quantum Northwest cuvette temperature controller under anaerobic conditions..”

• Plug and Play Anisotropy-Based Nanothermometers

  S. Thompson, I. Martínez, P. Haro-González, A.P. Adam, D. Jaque, J. Nieder, R.de la Rica, ACS Photonics. (2018)

  “…The device control and data analysis were performed with the ISS Vinci software. The temperature of the sample solutions was either controlled or temperature measured at the bottom of the cuvette with Peltier-based temperature controller (Turret 4, Quantum Northwest, Inc.). All the experiments were performed in the same aqueous buffered solution (phosphate buffer saline, PBS) in order to avoid changes in fluorescence polarization anisotropy originating from variations in the viscosity of the solution…”

• Immobilization of a full photosystem in the large pore MIL-101 Metal-organic Framework for CO2 reduction

  X. Wang, F. Wisser, J. Canivet, M. Fontecave, and C. Mellot-Draznieks, ChemSusChem. (2018)

  “…band pass filter. Samples were prepared in a 1 cm path length quartz cuvette (Starna) which was placed in a temperature controlled cuvette holder (Quantum Northwest) maintained at 20°C with a circulated water bath…”

• Analysis of hydrogels for immobilisation of hepatocytes (HepG2) in 3D cell culturing systems

  E. Westergren, DIVA. (2018)

  “…Before the Circular Dichroism (CD) measurements all samples were prepared to a (peptide) concentration of 10 µM in PBS. The CD spectra were recorded using the Chirascan Spectropolarimeter from Applied Photophysics with a TC 125 temperature controller from Quantum Northwest steps with the sample in a 1.0 mm quartz cuvette. In the CD two different types of measurements were made; a scan over a wavelength span (200-250 nm, with a step length of 0.5 nm and three repeats per measurement) with fix temperature of 20 ᵒC to detect secondary structure of peptides and a temperature scan over the span 5-90 ᵒC, increasing 1 ᵒC per measurement and 3 repeats, and with a fix wavelength of 222 nm to find the “melting point” of the sample…”

• Design, synthesis and vesicular self-assembly of cyclic, acyclic and lipid based molcules

  A. Sapala, Thesis. (2018)

  “…For Fluorescence measurements, All the steady-state fluorescence experiments of sample solutions were carried out on the FLS900 spectrofluorometer (Edinburgh, UK). The fluorescence measurements were carried out by using 1 cm quartz cuvettes and the temperature was maintained at 25 ºC using a Peltier based cooler (Quantum Northwest)…”

• Radioprotective role of cyanobacterial phycobilisomes

  K. Klementiev, E. Maksimov, D. Gvozdev, G. Tsoraev, F. Protopopov, I. Elanskaya, S. Abramov, M. Dyakov, V. Ilyin, N. Nikolaeva, Y. Slonimskiy, N. Sluchanko, V. Lebedev, A. Spassky, T. Friedrich, G. Maksimov, V. Paschenko, and A. Rubin, bioRxiv (2018)

  “…picosecond excitation pulses, driven at a repetition rates up to 50 MHz. Temperature of the sample was stabilized by a Peltier-controlled cuvette holder Qpod 2e (Quantum Northwest, Liberty Lake, not peer-reviewed) is the author/funder. All rights reserved…”

• Production of recombinant human tektin 1, 2, and 4 and in vitro assembly of human tektin 1

  M. Budamagunta, F. Guo, N. Sun, B. Shibata, P. FitzGerald, J. Voss, and J. Hess, Cytoskeleton (Hoboken). 75, 3-11 (2018)

  “…Circular dichroism spectroscopy (CD) measurements were performed on a Jasco J-715 spectropolarimeter equipped with a Peltier temperature control (Quantum Northwest) set to 25°C. For spectral acquisition, a tektin protofilament sample of 0.1 mg/mL in 5 mM Tris, pH 7.5…”