41. A multi-thermal-lens approach to evaluation of multi-pass probe beam configuration in thermal lens spectrometryHumberto Cabrera, Leja Goljat, Dorota Korte, Ernesto Marin, Mladen Franko, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: In this work, a recently proposed thermal lens instrument based on multi-pass probe beam concept is investigated and described as a multi-thermal-lens equivalent system. A simulation of the photothermal lens signal formation in a multi-thermal-lens equivalent configuration of the system is performed and validated by comparing the experimental signals of single, dual and ten-pass configurations to theoretically calculated values. The theoretically predicted enhancement of the signal is 9 to 10-fold for a weak thermal lens when comparing the ten-pass configuration with the conventional single-pass thermal lens system. Experimentally achieved signal enhancement in the ten-pass system is 8.3 for pure ethanol sample and between 8 and 9 for solutions with different concentrations of the Fe(II) - 1,10-Phenanthroline complex. Additionally, a value of 9.1 was calculated as the ratio of the slopes of the calibration lines obtained using the ten-pass and single-pass configurations. The achieved limit of detection for determination of Fe(II), in the ten-pass configuration, was 0.4 µgL-1, with a relative standard deviation around 4.5%, which compares favorably with previously reported results for TLS determination of Fe(II) in thin samples using low excitation power. For the multi-pass configuration the linear range of measurement is reduced when compared to the single-pass configuration. This is explained by the theoretical analysis of the photothermal signal under multi-pass condition, which shows the important contribution of the nonlinear term in the theoretical expression for the photothermal signal. The ten-pass configuration, which is presented and validated experimentally for the first time, offers important signal enhancement needed in recently developed TLS instruments with tunable, low power excitation sources.
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Ključne besede: Thermal lens spectrometry, Photothermal detection, Trace determination, Chemical sensor
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42. Simple and fast HPLC-DAD method for determination of HCDC activity and formation of vinylphenol in Saccharomyces and non-Saccharomyces yeastJelena Topič, Lorena Butinar, Dorota Korte, Branka Mozetič Vodopivec, objavljeni povzetek znanstvenega prispevka na konferenci Opis: Conventionally, alcoholic fermentation in the production of wine is performed by yeast species Saccharomyces cerevisiae. There are numerous starters available, however due to the growing demand for wines with specific characteristics, other Saccharomyces and non-Saccharomyces species are being investigated for potential use as starters. [1]. Yeast selection has involved the development of techniques for detecting strains that might improve wines in terms of aroma, structure, colour and other technological properties [2]. Colour of the wine can be affected as some metabolites produced by yeast during fermentation may react with grape anthocyanins to produce highly stable pyranoanthocyanins. For the facilitation of formation of vinylphenolic pyranoanthocyanins, yeast strains with high hydroxycinnamate decarboxylase activity are used (HCDC). The mechanism of reaction is decarboxylation of hydroxycinnamic acids and formation of vinylphenols that condense with grape anthocyanins and form stabile vinyphenolic pyranoanthocyanin adducts [3]. It has been demonstrated that some non-Saccharomyces strains (Pichia guillermondii, Schizosaccharomyces pombe) have positive HCDC activity and they can produce vinylphenolic pyranoanthocyanins in higher concentrations than S. cerevisiae. A simple way of determining whether the yeast strain has HCDC activity or not, is the use of fermentation media with the addition of hydroxycinnamic acids, such as p-coumaric acid. The degradation of p-coumaric acid and transformation into 4-vinylphenol (and possibly in 4-ethylphenol) can be checked by LC-DAD. Most of the published data has been done on smaller number of strains.
The goal of our work was to develop simple method for the screening of Slovenian in-house yeast collection, comprising of native isolates that mostly originated from Vipava valley and Karst region, and therefore try to determine strains with high HCDC activity. These strains can be used for wine fermentations in order to produce more stable pyranoanthocyanins; which is especially important in wines that has less anthocyanin concentration already from the grape, such as Pinot Noir.
103 different yeast strains belonging to 28 species were selected for the assessment of HCDC activity. In some cases the difference in p-coumaric acid metabolism rate between two strains exceeded 90%. All tested S. paradoxus strains showed higher than 40% degradation rate of p-coumaric acid. HCDC activity of S. cerevisiae strains which is the species most commonly used in fermentation, varied between 5.1 and 66.1%. The commercial strains tested, FPC and EC118 showed 43.9 and 21.5% conversion rate, respectively. It was observed that some native strains had higher HCDC activity than commercial tested ones. Three strains produced vinylphenol in concentration higher than 50 ppm, two of them being P. guillermondii and another strain being S. paradoxus (Sut85). In general strain with high HCDC activity also produced high concentration of 4-vinylphenol.
The results showed that HCDC activity is highly strain dependent, which correlates with the literature data available. The proposed method is very simple and does not require special sample preparation prior to HPLC analysis. Furthermore, the proposed fermentations in deep-well microtiter plates allow the screening of high number of strains. The method could be used for routine screening, to determine which strain has high HCDC activity and produces high concentration of vinylphenols and can therefore be used in future for determination of strains ability to synthesize vinylphenolic pyranoanthocyanins.
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Ključne besede: yeast, hydroxycinnamate decarboxylase, 4-vinylphenol
Objavljeno: 18.06.2018; Ogledov: 1070; Prenosov: 0
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43. Photocatalytic properties of metal modified TiO2 by photothermal techniquesMladen Franko, Dorota Korte, Urška Lavrenčič Štangar, Olena Pliekhova, Humberto Cabrera, Zeinab Ebrahimpour, 2018, objavljeni povzetek znanstvenega prispevka na konferenci Najdeno v: osebi
Ključne besede: Thermal lens spectrometry, Photothermal beam deflection spectroscopy, Dye remediation, Photothermal technique, Photocatalytic degradation, Reactive Blue 19, TiO2 modification
Objavljeno: 09.11.2018; Ogledov: 397; Prenosov: 0
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44. Determination of iron in natural waters using DGT technique coupled to phototermal beam deflection spectroscopyHanna Budasheva, Arne Bratkič, Dorota Korte, Mladen Franko, 2018, objavljeni povzetek znanstvenega prispevka na konferenci Najdeno v: osebi
Ključne besede: Beam deflection spectroscopy, diffusive gradients in thin-films, iron species, photothermal techniques, natural waters.
Objavljeno: 09.11.2018; Ogledov: 383; Prenosov: 0
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45. Photothermal lens technique: a comparison between conventional and self-mixing schemesJohn Fredy Barrera Ramírez, Dorota Korte, Jose Juan Suárez-Vargas, Jehan Akbar, Evelio E. Ramírez-Miquet, Fatima Matroodi, Imrana Ashraf, Humberto Cabrera, Hanna Budasheva, Joseph J. Niemela, 2019, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: This work focuses on assessing the analytical capabilities of a new photothermal lens method based on the self-mixing effect to reliably measure metallic traces in water-ethanol solutions. We compare it with the conventional thermal lens scheme, considering the low detection limit and versatility. A theoretical model is presented to describe the laser power variations as a function of the photothermal parameters of the analyzed sample. The experimental results demonstrate that the laser intensity variations, induced by the external optical feedback, are governed by
the photothermal lens effect. Measurements of Fe(II)-1,10-phenanthroline in water–ethanol solutions show a favourable correspondence and agreement with the theory. The low detection limits obtained by the two analytic techniques also agree very well. Nevertheless, our instrument presents advantages regarding compactness and simplicity, suggesting that this platform could be potentially useful as a robust analytical tool for metallic trace detection. In addition, calibration of the method is performed by measuring the so-called self-mixing constant.
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Ključne besede: thermal lens, photothermal spectroscopy, self-mixing effect, trace detection
Objavljeno: 05.04.2019; Ogledov: 376; Prenosov: 0
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46. Modulation of Pinot Noir wine colour by yeast selectionDorota Korte, Lorena Butinar, Jelena Topić Božič, Branka Mozetič Vodopivec, 2019, objavljeni povzetek znanstvenega prispevka na konferenci Najdeno v: osebi
Ključne besede: yeast, HCDC activity, wine colour, Pinot Noir, pyranoanthocyanins
Objavljeno: 27.05.2019; Ogledov: 327; Prenosov: 0
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47. Quantitative detection of Microcystis aeruginosa in fresh water using single domain antibodies (VHHs)Ario De Marco, Dorota Korte, Hanna Budasheva, Mladen Franko, Elisa Mazzega, Sandra Folarin Oloketuyi, Gbenga Folorunsho Oginni, objavljeni povzetek znanstvenega prispevka na konferenci Najdeno v: osebi
Ključne besede: thermal lens spectrometry, nanobodies, fluobodies, cyanobacteria
Objavljeno: 18.11.2019; Ogledov: 174; Prenosov: 8
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48. Optimization of DGT technique for determination of iron species in natural water and sediments by photothermal beam deflection spectroscopyMladen Franko, Dorota Korte, Arne Bratkič, Hanna Budasheva, 2018, objavljeni povzetek znanstvenega prispevka na konferenci Najdeno v: osebi
Ključne besede: beam deflection spectroscopy, diffusive gradients in thin-film technique, iron redox species, photothermal techniques, natural water, sediments
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49. Determination of Dissolved Iron Redox Species in Freshwater Sediment using DGT Technique Coupled to BDSYue Gao, Arne Bratkič, Dorota Korte, Aleksander Kravos, Hanna Budasheva, Mladen Franko, 2019, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: In this work we have developed a novel method for determination of iron redox species by the use of diffusive gradients in thin-film (DGT) technique coupled to photothermal beam deflection spectroscopy (BDS). The combination of both methods achieved low limit of detection (LOD) of 0.14 μM for Fe (II) ions. The total Fe concentration determined in the Vrtojbica river sediment (Slovenia, Rožna Dolina, 5000 Nova Gorica) was 49.3 μgL–1. The Fe (II) and Fe (III) concentra- tion amounted to 12.8 μgL–1 and 39.9 μgL–1, respectively. Such an approach opens new opportunities for monitoring the content of iron species in natural waters and sediments and provides highly sensitive chemical analysis and an accurate qualitative and quantitative characteristic of the materials under study.
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Ključne besede: Beam deflection spectroscopy, diffusive gradients in thin-film technique, iron redox species, photothermal techniques, sediment
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