• DocumentCode
    2862625
  • Title

    Hydration number of biomolecules evaluated with THz time-domain attenuated total reflection spectroscopy

  • Author

    Arikawa, Takashi ; Nagai, Masaya ; Tanaka, Koichiro

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Kyoto Univ., Kyoto
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    21-26 May 2006
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We performed THz time-domain attenuated total reflection spectroscopy of arginine and sucrose solution, and verified that this method gives us reasonable hydration numbers.
  • Keywords
    infrared spectroscopy; macromolecules; solvation; terahertz wave spectra; arginine; attenuated total reflection spectroscopy; biomolecules; hydration number; sucrose; terahertz time domain; Absorption; Amino acids; Dielectrics; Molecular biophysics; Optical reflection; Polarization; Refractive index; Spectroscopy; Time domain analysis; Water; (260.6970) Total internal reflection; (300.6270) Spectroscopy, far infrared;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Long Beach, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-813-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-813-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627697
  • Filename
    4627697