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Spectroscopy B23 Contact
Beamline Phone Number:
+44 (0) 1235 778889
Principal Beamline Scientist:
Giuliano Siligardi
Tel: +44 (0) 1235 778425
E-mail: [email protected]
Science Group Leader
Robert Rambo
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Tel: +44 (0)1235 56 7675
B23 Circular Dichroism
Status: Operational
Beamsize: 0.5mm² to 2mm x 4mm
Detector: PMT
Wavelength: 125 - 650 nm
Energy: 2 - 10 eV
Detector: PMT
Wavelength: 125 - 650 nm
Energy: 2 - 10 eV
User Publications
These papers are all based at least in part on data gathered on beamline B23. If you have published a paper based on data from B23 which doesn't appear here, please send a reference (ideally including a DOI) to us.
26 items found for 2023 [total: 374]
Tuning dipolar and multipolar resonances of chiral silicon nanostructures for control of near field superchirality Nanoscale, 20 Dec 2023 DOI: 10.1039/D3NR05285K
Increasing the π-expansive ligands in ruthenium(II) polypyridyl complexes: synthesis, characterization, and biological evaluation for photodynamic therapy applications Inorganic Chemistry, Nov 2023 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c02606
Journal Paper B23-Circular Dichroism
Bleomycin: cancer drug with a hidden flaw Oct 2023
Science Highlight B23-Circular Dichroism
Function of iron-stress-induced protein A in cyanobacterial cells with monomeric and trimeric Photosystem I Plant Physiology, Oct 2023 DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiad562
Journal Paper B23-Circular Dichroism
Unrestricted chiral patterning by laser writing in liquid crystalline and plasmonic nanocomposite thin films Advanced Materials, Oct 2023 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202310197
The adaptability of the ion binding site by the Ag(I)/Cu(I) periplasmic chaperone SilF Journal Of Biological Chemistry, 64 Oct 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2023.105331
The stabilization of S100A9 structure by calcium inhibits the formation of amyloid fibrils International Journal Of Molecular Sciences, 24 Aug 2023 DOI: 10.3390/ijms241713200
L-Kynurenine participates in cancer immune evasion by downregulating hypoxic signaling in T lymphocytes Oncoimmunology, 12 Aug 2023 DOI: 10.1080/2162402X.2023.2244330
Interaction of blenoxane and congeners bleomycins A2 and B2 with human plasma proteins using circular dichroism spectroscopy International Journal Of Molecular Sciences, 24 Aug 2023 DOI: 10.3390/ijms241713598
Enantiomers self-sort into separate counter-twisted ribbons of the Fddd liquid crystal - antiferrochirality and parachirality Journal Of The American Chemical Society, 525 Jul 2023 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c06164
Journal Paper B23-Circular Dichroism I16-Materials and Magnetism I22-Small angle scattering & Diffraction open access
Spatially resolved chiroptical spectroscopies emphasizing recent applications to thin films of chiral organic dyes Chemistry – A European Journal, Jul 2023 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202301982
Thin films for organic-based optoelectronics: chemical and physical characterization using atomic force microscopy and tools for sub-molecular level structure information Jul 2023
Thesis B23-Circular Dichroism
Structural and biophysical analysis of UBE3A and partner protein complexes Jul 2023
Thesis B23-Circular Dichroism I04-Macromolecular Crystallography I24-Microfocus Macromolecular Crystallography Talos-Talos Arctica at Diamond
Polymer and soft matter research at Diamond Light Source Synchrotron Radiation News, June 2023 DOI: 10.1080/08940886.2023.2207456
Journal Paper B22-Multimode InfraRed imaging And Microspectroscopy B23-Circular Dichroism I07-Surface & interface diffraction I16-Materials and Magnetism I22-Small angle scattering & Diffraction open access
Insights into the origins of inverted circular dichroism in thin films of a chiral side chain polyfluorene Chirality, 1 June 2023 DOI: 10.1002/chir.23601
Circularly polarized microscopy of thin films of chiral organic dyes Chemical & Biomedical Imaging, June 2023 DOI: 10.1021/cbmi.3c00049
Electronic circular dichroism imaging of chiral π-conjugated materials in thin film June 2023
Conference Paper B23-Circular Dichroism
Conformational analysis and interaction of the Staphylococcus aureus transmembrane peptidase AgrB with its AgrD propeptide substrate Frontiers In Chemistry, 11 May 2023 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2023.1113885
Spontaneous mirror symmetry breaking and chiral segregation in the achiral ferronematic compound DIO Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 30 Mar 2023 DOI: 10.1039/D3CP00357D
Stabilization of the dimeric state of SARS-CoV-2 main protease by GC376 and Nirmatrelvir International Journal Of Molecular Sciences, 24 Mar 2023 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24076062
Two mechanisms for the formation of ferronematic phase in DIO as studied by dielectric spectroscopy Journal Of Molecular Liquids, 6 Mar 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2023.121570
Mueller matrix polarimetry on cyanine dye J-aggregates Molecules, 28 Feb 2023 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28041523
Synchrotron radiation circular dichroism spectroscopy reveals that gold and silver nanoparticles modify the secondary structure of a lung surfactant protein B analogue Nanoscale, 3 Feb 2023 DOI: 10.1039/D2NR06107D
Self‐assembly of chiral diketopyrrolopyrrole chromophores giving supramolecular chains in monolayers and twisted microtapes Chirality, 9 Feb 2023 DOI: 10.1002/chir.23539
Phase transitions study of the liquid crystal DIO with a ferroelectric nematic, a nematic, and an intermediate phase and of mixtures with the ferroelectric nematic compound RM734 by adiabatic scanning calorimetry Physical Review E, 107 Jan 2023 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.107.014701
Journal Paper B23-Circular Dichroism
T lymphocytes induce human cancer cells derived from solid malignant tumors to secrete galectin-9 which facilitates immunosuppression in cooperation with other immune checkpoint proteins Journal For Immunotherapy Of Cancer, 11 Jan 2023 DOI: 10.1136/jitc-2022-005714
- Dominic J. P. Koyroytsaltis-Mcquire, Rahul Kumar, Tamas Javorfi, Giuliano Siligardi, Nikolaj Gadegaard, Malcolm Kadodwala, "Tuning dipolar and multipolar resonances of chiral silicon nanostructures for control of near field superchirality", Nanoscale, 20 (2023), DOI: 10.1039/D3NR05285K
- Maria Dalla Pozza, Pierre Mesdom, Ahmad Abdullrahman, Tayler D. Prieto Otoya, Philippe Arnoux, Céline Frochot, Germain Niogret, Bruno Saubaméa, Pierre Burckel, James Hall, Marcel Hollenstein, Christine J Cardin, Gilles Gasser, "Increasing the π-expansive ligands in ruthenium(II) polypyridyl complexes: synthesis, characterization, and biological evaluation for photodynamic therapy applications", Inorganic Chemistry (2023), DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c02606
- [Science Highlight] Diamond Light Source, "Bleomycin: cancer drug with a hidden flaw" (2023)
- Parveen Akhtar, Fanny Balog-Vig, Soujanya Kuntam, Szilvia Z Tóth, Petar H. Lambrev, "Function of iron-stress-induced protein A in cyanobacterial cells with monomeric and trimeric Photosystem I", Plant Physiology (2023), DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiad562
- Piotr Szustakiewicz, Filip Powała, Dorota Szepke, Wiktor Lewandowski, Pawel W. Majewski, "Unrestricted chiral patterning by laser writing in liquid crystalline and plasmonic nanocomposite thin films", Advanced Materials (2023), DOI: 10.1002/adma.202310197
- Ryan M. Lithgo, Marko Hanževački, Gemma Harris, Jos J. A. G. Kamps, Ellie Holden, Tiberiu-Marius Gianga, Justin L. P. Benesch, Christof M. Jäger, Anna K. Croft, Rohanah Hussain, Jon L. Hobman, Allen M. Orville, Andrew Quigley, Stephen B. Carr, David J. Scott, "The adaptability of the ion binding site by the Ag(I)/Cu(I) periplasmic chaperone SilF", Journal Of Biological Chemistry, 64 (2023), DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2023.105331
- Ella Sanders, Rebecca Csondor, Darius Šulskis, Ieva Baronaitė, Vytautas Smirnovas, Luckshi Maheswaran, Jack Horrocks, Rory Munro, Christina Georgiadou, Istvan Horvath, Ludmilla A. Morozova-Roche, Philip T. F. Williamson, "The stabilization of S100A9 structure by calcium inhibits the formation of amyloid fibrils", International Journal Of Molecular Sciences, 24 (2023), DOI: 10.3390/ijms241713200
- Stephanie Schlichtner, Inna M. Yasinska, Elena Klenova, Maryam Abooali, Gurprit S. Lall, Steffen M. Berger, Sabrina Ruggiero, Dietmar Cholewa, Milan Milošević, Bernhard F. Gibbs, Elizaveta Fasler-Kan, Vadim V. Sumbayev, "L-Kynurenine participates in cancer immune evasion by downregulating hypoxic signaling in T lymphocytes", Oncoimmunology, 12 (2023), DOI: 10.1080/2162402X.2023.2244330
- Edoardo Longo, Giuliano Siligardi, Rohanah Hussain, "Interaction of blenoxane and congeners bleomycins A2 and B2 with human plasma proteins using circular dichroism spectroscopy", International Journal Of Molecular Sciences, 24 (2023), DOI: 10.3390/ijms241713598
- Yan Wang, Ya-Xin Li, Liliana Cseh, Yong-Xuan Chen, Shu-Gui Yang, Xiangbing Zeng, Feng Liu, Wenbing Hu, Goran Ungar, "Enantiomers self-sort into separate counter-twisted ribbons of the Fddd liquid crystal - antiferrochirality and parachirality", Journal Of The American Chemical Society, 525 (2023), DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c06164
- Gianluigi Albano, Andrea Taddeucci, Gennaro Pescitelli, Lorenzo Di Bari, "Spatially resolved chiroptical spectroscopies emphasizing recent applications to thin films of chiral organic dyes", Chemistry – A European Journal (2023), DOI: 10.1002/chem.202301982
- [Thesis] Letizia Liiro Peluso, "Thin films for organic-based optoelectronics: chemical and physical characterization using atomic force microscopy and tools for sub-molecular level structure information" (2023)
- [Thesis] Emma Cowan, "Structural and biophysical analysis of UBE3A and partner protein complexes" (2023)
- N. J. Terrill, A. Bombardi, F. Carla, G. Cinque, M. J. Derry, A. Milsom, G. Siligardi, T. Snow, P. D. Topham, X. B. Zeng, T. Zinn, "Polymer and soft matter research at Diamond Light Source", Synchrotron Radiation News (2023), DOI: 10.1080/08940886.2023.2207456
- Louis Minion, Jessica Wade, Juan Manuel Moreno‐naranjo, Seán Ryan, Giuliano Siligardi, Matthew J. Fuchter, "Insights into the origins of inverted circular dichroism in thin films of a chiral side chain polyfluorene", Chirality, 1 (2023), DOI: 10.1002/chir.23601
- Andrea Taddeucci, Francesco Zinna, Giuliano Siligardi, Lorenzo Di Bari, "Circularly polarized microscopy of thin films of chiral organic dyes", Chemical & Biomedical Imaging (2023), DOI: 10.1021/cbmi.3c00049
- [Conference Paper] A. Taddeucci, F. Zinna, G. Pescitelli, L. A. Aronica, G. Siligardi, L. Di Bari, "Electronic circular dichroism imaging of chiral π-conjugated materials in thin film" (2023)
- Philip Bardelang, Ewan J. Murray, Isobel Blower, Sara Zandomeneghi, Alice Goode, Rohanah Hussain, Divya Kumari, Giuliano Siligardi, Katsuaki Inoue, Jeni Luckett, James Doutch, Jonas Emsley, Weng C. Chan, Philip Hill, Paul Williams, Boyan B. Bonev, "Conformational analysis and interaction of the Staphylococcus aureus transmembrane peptidase AgrB with its AgrD propeptide substrate", Frontiers In Chemistry, 11 (2023), DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2023.1113885
- Neelam Yadav, Yuri P. Panarin, Wanhe Jiang, Georg Mehl, Jagdish K. Vij, "Spontaneous mirror symmetry breaking and chiral segregation in the achiral ferronematic compound DIO", Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 30 (2023), DOI: 10.1039/D3CP00357D
- Alessandro Paciaroni, Valeria Libera, Francesca Ripanti, Andrea Orecchini, Caterina Petrillo, Daniela Francisci, Elisabetta Schiaroli, Samuele Sabbatini, Anna Gidari, Elisa Bianconi, Antonio Macchiarulo, Rohanah Hussain, Lucia Silvestrini, Paolo Moretti, Norhan Belhaj, Matteo Vercelli, Yessica Roque, Paolo Mariani, Lucia Comez, Francesco Spinozzi, "Stabilization of the dimeric state of SARS-CoV-2 main protease by GC376 and Nirmatrelvir", International Journal Of Molecular Sciences, 24 (2023), DOI: 10.3390/ijms24076062
- Neelam Yadav, Yuri P. Panarin, Jagdish K. Vij, Wanhe Jiang, Georg H. Mehl, "Two mechanisms for the formation of ferronematic phase in DIO as studied by dielectric spectroscopy", Journal Of Molecular Liquids, 6 (2023), DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2023.121570
- Samuel R. Clowes, Dora M. Răsădean, Tiberiu-M. Gianga, Tamas Javorfi, Rohanah Hussain, Giuliano Siligardi, G. Dan Pantos, "Mueller matrix polarimetry on cyanine dye J-aggregates", Molecules, 28 (2023), DOI: 10.3390/molecules28041523
- Alison Buckley, James Warren, Rohanah Hussain, Rachel Smith, "Synchrotron radiation circular dichroism spectroscopy reveals that gold and silver nanoparticles modify the secondary structure of a lung surfactant protein B analogue", Nanoscale, 3 (2023), DOI: 10.1039/D2NR06107D
- Joshua Humphreys, C. Elizabeth Killalea, Flavia Pop, E. Stephen Davies, Giuliano Siligardi, David B. Amabilino, "Self‐assembly of chiral diketopyrrolopyrrole chromophores giving supramolecular chains in monolayers and twisted microtapes", Chirality, 9 (2023), DOI: 10.1002/chir.23539
- J. Thoen, G. Cordoyiannis, W. Jiang, G. H. Mehl, C. Glorieux, "Phase transitions study of the liquid crystal DIO with a ferroelectric nematic, a nematic, and an intermediate phase and of mixtures with the ferroelectric nematic compound RM734 by adiabatic scanning calorimetry", Physical Review E, 107 (2023), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.107.014701
- Stephanie Schlichtner, Inna M. Yasinska, Gurprit S. Lall, Steffen M. Berger, Sabrina Ruggiero, Dietmar Cholewa, Nijas Aliu, Bernhard F. Gibbs, Elizaveta Fasler-Kan, Vadim V. Sumbayev, "T lymphocytes induce human cancer cells derived from solid malignant tumors to secrete galectin-9 which facilitates immunosuppression in cooperation with other immune checkpoint proteins", Journal For Immunotherapy Of Cancer, 11 (2023), DOI: 10.1136/jitc-2022-005714
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