Upgrade of a Fluorimeter to Include Time Resolution via Frequency Modulation

化学研究仪器和设施项目的这一奖项将帮助德克萨斯大学化学系购买现有荧光仪的升级。这一新的仪器将极大地加强许多领域的研究，包括：新型光反应性两亲性聚合物、新型光化学机理探针、空间有序阵列中的矢量电子转移、人工酶、碳水化合物受体和传感器的开发、新型扩展的卟啉超导体光学探测器的合成和研究。荧光计测量暴露在单色辐射下的材料所发射的荧光辐射。它用于研究化学动力学，以确定从荧光衰变中提取的振幅和速率常数。

This award from the Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities Program will assist the Department of Chemistry at the University of Texas in the purchase of an upgrade of the existing Fluorimeter. This new instrumentation will enhance greatly research in a number of areas, including the following: novel photoreactive amphiphilic polymers, novel probes of photochemical mechanisms, vectorial electron transfer in spatially ordered arrays, development of artificial enzymes, carbohydrate receptors and sensors, synthesis and study of new expanded porphyrins superconductor-based optical detectors. The fluorimeter measures the fluorescent radiation emitted by a material which is exposed to monochromatic radiation. It is used in studying chemical kinetics todetermine amplitudes and rate constants that are extracted from fluorescence decay.