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The time scales at which the ballistic behavior is observed in the MSD coincide with the time scales at which the cross-correlation between the swimmer's orientation and the direction of its displacement exhibits a maximum. Since the swimmer model was inspired by the GENERIC framework, it is possible to ensure that the entropy generation is always positive, and therefore, the second law of thermodynamics is obeyed.In this paper, we introduce the phenomenon of light driven diffusioosmotic long-range attraction and repulsion of porous particles under irradiation with UV light. The change in the inter-particle interaction potential is governed by flow patterns generated around single colloids and results in reversible aggregation or separation of the mesoporous silica particles that are trapped at a solid surface. The range of the interaction potential extends to several times the diameter of the particle and can be adjusted by varying the light intensity. The "fuel" of the process is a photosensitive surfactant undergoing photo-isomerization from a more hydrophobic trans-state to a rather hydrophilic cis-state. The surfactant has different adsorption affinities to the particles depending on the isomerization state. The trans-isomer, for example, tends to accumulate in the negatively charged pores of the particles, while the cis-isomer prefers to remain in the solution. https://www.selleckchem.com/products/azd7545.html This implies that when under UV irradiation cis-isomers are being formed within the pores, they tend to diffuse out readily and generate an excess concentration near the colloid's outer surface, ultimately resulting in the initiation of diffusioosmotic flow. The direction of the flow depends strongly on the dynamic redistribution of the fraction of trans- and cis-isomers near the colloids due to different kinetics of photo-isomerization within the pores as compared to the bulk. The unique feature of the mechanism discussed in the paper is that the long-range mutual repulsion but also the attraction can be tuned by convenient external optical stimuli such as intensity so that a broad variety of experimental situations for manipulation of a particle ensemble can be realized.The early transition metal diatomic sulfides, MS, M = Sc, Y, Ti, Zr, Hf, Nb, and Ta, have been investigated using resonant two-photon ionization spectroscopy in the vicinity of their bond dissociation energies (BDEs). Due to the high density of vibronic states in this energy range, the molecular spectra appear quasicontinuous, and when the excitation energy exceeds the ground separated atom limit, excited state decay by dissociation becomes possible. The dissociation process typically occurs so rapidly that the molecule falls apart before a second photon can be absorbed to ionize the species, leading to a sharp drop in ion signal, which is identified as the 0 K BDE. The observed predissociation thresholds yield BDEs of 4.852(10) eV (ScS), 5.391(3) eV (YS), 4.690(4) eV (TiS), 5.660(4) eV (ZrS), 5.780(20) eV (HfS), 5.572(3) eV (NbS), and 5.542(3) eV (TaS). Utilizing thermochemical cycles, the enthalpies of formation, ΔfH0Ko(g), of 182.7(4.3) kJ mol-1 (ScS), 178.3(4.2) kJ mol-1 (YS), 293.1(16.7) kJ mol-1 (TiS), 337.3(8.4) kJ mol-1 (ZrS), 335.0(6.6) kJ mol-1 (HfS), 467.0(8.0) kJ mol-1 (NbS), and 521.5(2.1) kJ mol-1 (TaS) are obtained. Another thermochemical cycle has been used to combine the previously measured M+-S BDEs with the M-S BDEs and atomic ionization energies to obtain the MS ionization energies of 6.44(5) eV (ScS), 6.12(8) eV (YS), 6.78(7) eV (TiS), 6.60(10) eV (ZrS), and 6.88(9) eV (NbS). Using this same cycle, we obtain D0(Hf+-S) = 4.926(20) eV. The bonding trends of the early transition metal sulfides, along with the corresponding selenides, are discussed.A new method for calculating nuclear magnetic shielding in solutions is developed based on the reference interaction site model self-consistent field (RISM-SCF) with spatial electron density distribution (SEDD). In RISM-SCF-SEDD, the electrostatic interaction between the solute and the solvent is described by considering the spread of electron to obtain more realistic electronic structure in solutions. It is thus expected to allow us to predict more quantitative chemical shifts of a wide variety of chemical species in solutions. In this study, the method is applied to a water molecule in water and is validated by examining the dependence of the solvent temperature and density on chemical shifts. The dependence of solvent species is also investigated, and more accurate results are obtained for polar solvents compared to the previous RISM-SCF study. Another application example of this method is the 15N chemical shifts of two azines in water, which is difficult to predict with the polarizable continuum model (PCM). Our results are in good agreement with the previous quantum mechanical/molecular mechanics study and experimental results. It is also shown that our method gives more realistic results for methanol and acetone than the PCM.Infrared (IR) spectra in a region of the OH stretch band of phenol (PhOH)-ethyldimethylsilane (EDMS), phenol (PhOH)-triethylsilane (TES), and phenol (PhOH)-t-butyldimethylsilane (BDMS) dihydrogen-bonded clusters in the S1 state were observed. All of the species exhibited unconventional band patterns in which many combination bands appeared with comparable intensities to those of allowed bands. Such a behavior is sometimes called a Franck-Condon-like pattern. In the case of the PhOH-BDMS, one intermolecular vibrational mode is involved in this behavior. The observed IR spectra were well reproduced based on the concept of the Franck-Condon-like behavior. As an alternative treatment, we analyzed the band patterns on the concept of intensity borrowing due to the vibrational anharmonic interaction. The analysis was based on an effective Hamiltonian involving an anharmonic interaction between the OH stretch and intermolecular vibrational modes. Two treatments provided the same results. Thus, it was confirmed that the Franck-Condon-like behavior originates from vibrational anharmonic interactions. In the cases of the PhOH-EDMS and PhOH-TES, we carried out a two-dimensional Franck-Condon and an effective Hamiltonian analysis to interpret the Franck-Condon-like patterns. We examined vibrational wave functions obtained by the latter analysis. Shapes of the wave functions suggest that a recombination of the intermolecular vibrational modes occurs during the excitation of OH stretch mode in these clusters, which is a similar behavior to the Duschinsky effect in the electronic transition.