title: Role of water content in dielectric properties and delayed luminescence of bovine Achilles' tendon.
abstract: In order to investigate the role of water network in collagen structure, measurement of dielectric permittivity was performed on bovine Achilles' tendon as a function of water content. The data show a sudden decrease of the permittivity at each measured frequency value when the tendon humidity decreases. A similar behaviour is shown by the total number of photons emitted in delayed luminescence (DL) experiments. The comparison of the two results is in agreement with the hypothesis that DL is connected to the excitation and subsequent decay of collective electronic states, whose properties depend on the organized structure of the system.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Metodologie Fisiche e Chimiche per l'Ingegneria, Università degli Studi di Catania Viale Andrea Doria, 6, 95125 Catania, Italy. mgulino@dmfci.unict.it
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gulino
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bellia
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Falciglia
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Musumeci
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pappalardo
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Scordino
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Triglia
mesh_terms: D000125:Achilles Tendon / Q000737:chemistry*; D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D003094:Collagen / Q000737:chemistry*; D004553:Electric Conductivity; D049449:Luminescence; D008163:Luminescent Measurements; D008297:Male; D014867:Water / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D014867:Water; D003094:Collagen