Light to spy drugs!Last Modified: 16/03/2011

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• Biomolecules: the proteins (animated info)

  The journey of a biomolecule (info)

  Biomolecules gallery (3D illustrations)

• Blood Groups (animated info)

  Blood: a body basics article

  The human heart (info)

• Massimo Capobianco (homepage)
  
  

• Reaction Types (interactive tutorial)

  Reactants, products and leftovers (interactive)

  To react or not to react? (info)

  Electronic excitation: fragmentation by CeDIS (FUB)

  The four types of chemical reactions (animated info)

  Where does the energy of chemical reactions come from? (animated info)

• Understanding circular Dichroism: the basics of polarization (info & animations)

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   Introduction to drug action

  How medication works
  
  How do drugs work? (info & interactives)
  
  

• Electromagnetic Radiation (animated info)

  What is electromagnetic radiation? (info)

  The Nature of Electromagnetic Radiation (theory and interactive flashes)

  Electromagnetic radiation: hazards and uses

  Electromagnetic radiation (info related to astronomy)

  Electromagnetic radiation (short info)

• What makes a firefly glow? (enzyme synthesis)

  What is an enzyme? (animated info)

  All about enzymes (info)

  How do enzymes work? (short animated info)

  Where does the energy of chemical reactions come from? (animated info)

• Eugenides Foundation (homepage)

• Atom-light interactions (educational dialog)

  Atoms and light energy (info)

  Electron excitation and emission (info & interactives)

  Photon excitation and photon emission of the electron (interactive)

  What is light? (info & illustrations)

  Why things fluoresce? (info & interactive)

  Introduction to fluorescence (animated tutorial)

• Info on flash photolysis technique 

  Origins of flash photolysis

  Flash photolysis and its applications: nobel lecture by George Porter

  Laser Flash Photolysis (info & photos)

• Fluorescence: what & why

  What is fluorescence?

  Fluorescence (history, theory & principles)

  An  introduction to fluorescence

  Fluorescence (info & animations)

  Why things fluoresce? (info & interactive)
  
  Introduction to fluorescence (animated tutorial)

  Blacklight Gallery (slide show)

• ISOF – CNR: Institute for the Organic Synthesis and Photoreactivity (home page)
  
  
  

•  Interactive Science & Technology Exhibition, Eugenides Foundation (homepage)

• Laser facts (info)

  About lasers (information dialog)

  Lasers (encyclopaedic knowledge)

  Lasers: how do they work?

              Invention of lasers

  Laser – Better than cinema (info & image)
  
  Laser history timeline

• Ligand-receptor systems (info from ISOF)

• How light works (info & experiment)

  Absorption of light (brief info)

  Play with light (resource from Eugenides Foundation)

  Glasses that filter (resource from Eugenides Foundation)

  Absorption filters (info & interactive)

  Light absorption, reflection and transmission (info & quiz)

• When matter produces light (info)

  Emission of light (brief info)

  Nature of light: light emission (info & illustration)

  How light is emitted (info & animation)

  Introduction to fluorescence (animated tutorial)

• Atoms and light energy 

  What is light?

  How light works 

  It’s all energy 

  Light and colour (ppt presentation)
  
  Light: a form of energy

  Light: definition 

• Dr. Ilse Manet (homepage)
  
  

•  Francesco Manoli (homepage)

• Dr. Giancarlo Marconi (homepage)
  
  

•  Molecular Photoscience Group at ISOF (homepage)

• Library of 3D molecular structures (info & illustrations)

  3D molecules using Jmol (info & interactives)

  Representations of molecules (complete tutorial)

  Determining molecular shape (complete tutorial)

  One atom, many structures (resource by Eugenides Foundation)

• Marvellous molecules (info & illustrations)

  Classification of matter: molecules (complete tutorial)

  Properties of matter: molecules (interactive info)

  Shapes of Simple Molecules (animated info, part 1)

  Shapes of Simple Molecules (animated info, part 2)

•  Sandra Monti (homepage)

• Luisa Navacchia (homepage)

• Dr. Stefano Ottani

• Peptide bond formation (animated info)

  The peptide bond (animated info)

  Tutorial on peptide and protein structure

• About photochemistry

  Basic photochemistry

  Beautiful photochemistry

  Avatar and photochemistry

• How light works: producing a photon (info)

  About photons (brief info)

  Photon excitation and photon emission of the electron (interactive)

• Photomolecular science group on drug research
  
  
  
  

• Photosensitizers in medicine (info & photos)
  
  Sun sensitivity: are you at risk? 

  Sun-sensitive drugs: symptoms & common sun-sensitizing drugs (info)
  
  

• Changes in our world: chemical and physical (animated info)

  Chemical vs. physical change (info)

• Biomolecules: the proteins (animated info)

  Tour of the basics: what is a protein? (animated info)

  DNA and proteins are key molecules of the cell nucleus (info)

• Introduction to spectroscopy

  What is spectroscopy? (info & illustrations)

  Spectroscopy (basic info)

  Seeing the scientific light (info)

   Spectroscopy: the example of infrared spectrum (info)

  Spectral lines (info)

• Ultraviolet waves

  Shining light on ultraviolet radiation

  Ozone and UV: where are we now?

  What is UV radiation?

• The magic visible light window (info)

  Visible spectrum: what light reaches the eye? (brief info)

  The discovery of the white light spectrum (info)

  Visible light waves (info)

  White light bents: rainbow (info)

  Why are rainbows colored? (info)

  Sources of visible light (info & interactives)

  Light refraction: why are prisms coloured? (info)

• Free radicals (brief info)

  What are free radicals?