Chemistry
This is the collection for the University of Waterloo's Department of Chemistry .
Research outputs are organized by type (eg. Master Thesis, Article, Conference Paper).
Waterloo faculty, students, and staff can contact us or visit the UWSpace guide to learn more about depositing their research.
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Casting Shadow on the Photocatalytic Activity of Plasmonic Antimony Doped Tin Oxide Nanoparticles in Degrading Rhodamine 590
(University of Waterloo, 2018-06-04)Increasing the feasibility of water purification systems at the manufacturing, technical and material engineering level is an urgent matter that is of global interest. Concerning materials engineering for water purification ... -
Quantifying entanglement of rotor chains using basis truncation: Application to dipolar endofullerene peapods
(American Institute of Physics, 2018-02-21)We propose a variational approach for the calculation of the quantum entanglement entropy of assemblies of rotating dipolar molecules. A basis truncation scheme based on the total angular momentum quantum number is proposed. ... -
Ground states of linear rotor chains via the density matrix renormalization group
(American Institute of Physics, 2018-04-04)In recent years, experimental techniques have enabled the creation of ultracold optical lattices of molecules and endofullerene peapod nanomolecular assemblies. It was previously suggested that the rotor model resulting ... -
A path integral methodology for obtaining thermodynamic properties of nonadiabatic systems using Gaussian mixture distributions
(American Institute of Physics, 2018-05)We introduce a new path integral Monte Carlo method for investigating nonadiabatic systems in thermal equilibrium and demonstrate an approach to reducing stochastic error. We derive a general path integral expression for ... -
Entangling qubit registers via many-body states of ultracold atoms
(American Physical Society, 2016-04-25)Inspired by the experimental measurement of the Rényi entanglement entropy in a lattice of ultracold atoms by Islam et al. [Nature (London) 528, 77 (2015)], we propose a method to entangle two spatially separated qubits ... -
Streptococcus agalactiae CAMP factor: Functional Roles of N- and C-terminal Domains & Target Membrane Effect on Toxin Activity
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-22)CAMP factor is a well-known pore-forming toxin secreted by Streptococcus agalactiae that forms discrete pores on susceptible membranes whether natural or artificial. This work reports haemolysis and liposome permeabilization ... -
Towards the Development of Thermoresponsive Starch Films
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-22)Wound dressings are an important part of the global wound care market. In addition to having desirable physical properties such as flexibility and gas permeability, it is also important that they be easily removed. As ... -
Thermoresponsive Starch Nanoparticles for Use in the Extraction of Oil from Oil Sands
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-18)Oil sands represent the most abundant reserves of oil in the world. Nearly 97% of the oil reserves of Canada are found in the form of oil sands. Despite continued research, the extraction of oil from oil sands is costly ... -
Fast quantitation of opioid isomers in human plasma by differential mobility spectrometry/mass spectrometry via SPME/open-port probe sampling interface
(Elsevier, 2017-10-23)Mass spectrometry (MS) based quantitative approaches typically require a thorough sample clean-up and a decent chromatographic step in order to achieve needed figures of merit. However, in most cases, such processes are ... -
Equilibrium ex vivo calibration of homogenized tissue for in vivo SPME quantitation of doxorubicin in lung tissue
(Elsevier, 2018-06-01)The fast and sensitive determination of concentrations of anticancer drugs in specific organs can improve the efficacy of chemotherapy and minimize its adverse effects. In this paper, ex vivo solid-phase microextraction ... -
Rapid determination of immunosuppressive drug concentrations in whole blood by coated blade spray-tandem mass spectrometry (CBS-MS/MS)
(Elsevier, 2018-01-25)Coated Blade Spray (CBS) is a technology that efficiently integrates sample preparation and direct coupling to mass spectrometry (MS) on a single device. In this article, we present CBS-tandem mass spectrometry (CBS-MS/MS) ... -
Multireference equation of motion coupled cluster benchmark study of magnetic model systems
(Elsevier, 2018-04-15)The multireference equation of motion coupled cluster (MREOM-CC) approach including spin-orbit coupling is applied to magnetic model systems FArO, FArOF and FArFOH, and compared to benchmark multireference Configuration ... -
Structural Studies of a Complex Between Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase and Calmodulin at Physiological Calcium Concentration
(American Chemical Society, 2016-10-25)The small acidic protein calmodulin (CaM) serves as a Ca2+ sensor and control element for many enzymes including nitric oxide synthase (NOS) enzymes that play major roles in key physiological and pathological processes. ... -
Structural Consequences of Calmodulin EF Hand Mutations
(American Chemical Society, 2017-02-21)Calmodulin (CaM) is a cytosolic Ca2+-binding protein that serves as a control element for many enzymes. It consists of two globular domains, each containing two EF hand pairs capable of binding Ca2+, joined by a flexible ... -
Solution Structure of Calmodulin Bound to the Target Peptide of Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase Phosphorylated at Thr495
(American Chemical Society, 2014-03-04)Nitric oxide synthase (NOS) plays a major role in a number of key physiological and pathological processes, and it is important to understand how this enzyme is regulated. The small acidic calcium binding protein, calmodulin ... -
Dynamics of Nitric Oxide Synthase–Calmodulin Interactions at Physiological Calcium Concentrations
(American Chemical Society, 2015-03-24)The intracellular Ca2+ concentration is an important regulator of many cellular functions. The small acidic protein calmodulin (CaM) serves as a Ca2+ sensor and control element for many enzymes. Nitric oxide synthase (NOS) ... -
Separating and probing tautomers of protonated nucleobases using differential mobility spectrometry
(Elsevier, 2017-08-26)The protonated nucleobases (C+H)+, (T+H)+, (U+H)+, (A+H)+, and (G+H)+ are investigated in a combined experimental and computational study using differential mobility spectrometry (DMS), mass spectrometry, and electronic ... -
Chemical shift assignments of calmodulin constructs with EF hand mutations
(Springer, 2016-04-01)Calmodulin (CaM) is a ubiquitous cytosolic Ca2+-binding protein able to bind and regulate hundreds of different proteins. It consists of two globular domains joined by a flexible central linker region. Each one of these ... -
Chemical shift perturbations induced by residue specific mutations of CaM interacting with NOS peptides
(Springer, 2015-10-01)The regulation of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) by calmodulin (CaM) plays a major role in a number of key physiological and pathological processes. A detailed molecular level picture of how this regulation is achieved is ... -
Calmodulin regulates Cav3 T-type channels at their gating brake
(American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2017-12-08)Calcium (Cav1 and Cav2) and sodium channels possess homologous CaM-binding motifs, known as IQ motifs in their C termini, which associate with calmodulin (CaM), a universal calcium sensor. Cav3 T-type channels, which serve ...
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