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Melting temperature and heat of fusion of cytosine revealed from fast scanning calorimetry

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In this paper, the melting temperature of cytosine was determined by applying fast scanning calorimetry with the heating rate at 6000 K s−1, which is the same as the temperature of the nucleobases of DNA and RNA.
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This article is published in Thermochimica Acta.The article was published on 2017-11-10. It has received 42 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Enthalpy of fusion & Calorimetry.

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CORRIGENDUM: Cell sorting in a Petri dish controlled by computer vision

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate that both fluorescent and unlabeled live cells in a Petri dish observed with a microscope can be automatically recognized by computer vision and picked up by a computer-controlled micropipette.
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Fundamental thermal properties of polyvinyl alcohol by fast scanning calorimetry

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used fast scanning calorimetry at rates ranging from 1000 to 600,000 K/s to determine the critical cooling rate, βc, needed to quench polyvinyl alcohol into an amorphous glass.
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Nanocalorimetry: Door opened for in situ material characterization under extreme non-equilibrium conditions

TL;DR: Nanocalorimetry has attracted extensive attention in the field of materials science, where it is applied to perform quantitative analysis of rapid phase transitions and evaluation of size effects.
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New experimental melting properties as access for predicting amino-acid solubility

TL;DR: In this paper, fast scanning calorimetry (FSC) with scanning rates up to 2 × 104 K s−1 was used to measure the melting parameters for L-alanine and glycine.
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Application of fast scanning calorimetry to the fusion thermochemistry of low-molecular-weight organic compounds: Fast-crystallizing m-terphenyl heat capacities in a deeply supercooled liquid state

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employed a fast scanning calorimetry technique to test the validity of this conclusion and obtained the heat capacity of the supercooled liquid and glassy m-terphenyl for the first time.
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Perturbed-Chain SAFT: An Equation of State Based on a Perturbation Theory for Chain Molecules

TL;DR: In this paper, a modified SAFT equation of state is developed by applying the perturbation theory of Barker and Henderson to a hard-chain reference fluid, which is applicable to mixtures of small spherical molecules such as gases, nonspherical solvents, and chainlike polymers.
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The thermodynamics of DNA structural motifs

TL;DR: This review presents the current parameter set available for making accurate DNA structure predictions and also points to future directions for improvement.
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Substantial biases in ultra-short read data sets from high-throughput DNA sequencing

TL;DR: The results show different types of biases and ways to detect, which have implications on the use and interpretation of Solexa data, for de novo sequencing, re-sequencing, the identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms and DNA methylation sites, as well as for transcriptome analysis.
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Enthalpy relaxation and recovery in amorphous materials

TL;DR: The field of enthalpy relaxation is reviewed in this paper, where current phenomenologies for dealing with the non-linear and non-exponential character of relaxation are presented, and their successes and shortcomings are discussed.
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Base-stacking and base-pairing contributions into thermal stability of the DNA double helix

TL;DR: It is found that temperature and salt dependences of the stacking term fully determine the temperature and the salt dependence of DNA stability parameters.
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