Emission Lifetimes of a Fluorescent Dye under Shock Compression.

The emission lifetimes of rhodamine 6G (R6G) were measured under shock compression to 9.1 GPa, with the dual intents of better understanding molecular photophysics in extreme environments and assessing the usefulness of fluorescence lifetime microscopy to measure spatially dependent pressure distributions in shocked microstructured media. R6G was studied as free dye dissolved in poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), or dye encapsulated in silica microparticles suspended in PMMA.

Improved efficiency of reversed-phase carbon/nanodiamond/polymer core-shell particles for HPLC using carbonized poly(divinylbenzene) microspheres as the core materials.

Here, we report efficiencies up to 112,000 plates per meter (a reduced plate height, h, of 2.22) for RP, carbon/nanodiamond/aminopolymer particles using conventional injection conditions in HPLC. This efficiency greatly exceeds our best previously reported value of 71,000 N/m (h = 3.