Effect of the Power-Frequency Electromagnetic Field on the Physicochemical Properties of Aluminum Micro- and Nanopowders

Technical Physics - The effect of power-frequency (50 Hz) electromagnetic field on variation in the physicochemical properties of aluminum powders with different dispersities is studied. It is...     

Inelastic Stretching of a Single-Wire Copper Conductor under Unlimited Local Strains at Positive Temperature

Technical Physics - Experimental and theoretical data for strains arising in a single-wire copper conductor experiencing a current load are reported. The conductor has been examined under a...     

Model of Dynamics of the IBR-2M Pulsed Reactor with Temperature and Power Fast Feedback Effects

Physics of Atomic Nuclei - A model of dynamics with separate temperature feedback formed by average temperatures of the fuel and the coolant is constructed for the IBR-2M pulsed reactor of periodic...     

Plasma Parameters Near a Hollow Rectangular Cathode

Journal of Applied Spectroscopy - A single probe method is used to obtain the electron density and electron energy distribution function in a short discharge gap between a rectangular hollow...     

Kirkwood and Wigner Quantum Densities,Their Properties,and Applications in Radiophysics

Radiophysics and Quantum Electronics - The Wigner and Kirkwood functions are widely used for signal processing. We review their properties and representations. The Wigner function calculation...     

Dispersive correction for the second- and the third-order nonlinear terms of the electrical energy density for a light-dielectric system

Optical and Quantum Electronics - Classification of hyperspectral image (HSI) is widely used for the study of remotely sensed images. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are one of the most...     

Effect of monomer hydrophilicity on ARGET–ATRP kinetics in aqueous mini-emulsion polymerization

Activators regenerated by electron transfer (ARGET) atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP)-based aqueous miniemulsion polymerization where the polymerization takes place in the stabilized monomer droplets is described. In this work, we compared styrene, n-butyl methacrylate (nBMA) and tert-butyl methacrylate (tBMA) and investigated the influence of their hydrophobicity on dispersity, molecular weight and particle stability based their partition coefficients (logP) (2.67, 2.23, and 1.86, respectively). Tetrabutylammonium bromide (TBAB) was used as a phase transfer agent for the controlled delivery of Cu²⁺-Br/tris(2-pyridylmethyl)amine (TPMA), a hydrophilic catalyst, into monomer droplets of varying hydrophobicity. The resulting dispersity and particle stability of each polymer is a function of its logP value, with the most hydrophobic monomer (styrene) displaying the narrowest dispersity and most control (Đ < 1.3), and the most hydrophilic polymer poly(tert-butyl methacrylate) (PtBMA) having reduced emulsion stability, determined by the observation of aggregate formation. Selected polymerization parameters, including effects of total ascorbic acid feed concentration and the monomer concentration and their effects on dispersity are reported. The controlled polymerizations of hydrophilic monomers using ARGET-ATRP in miniemulsion conditions and understanding the effect of monomer hydrophilicity on the emulsion stability will broaden the use of ARGET-ATRP in emulsion polymerization for the synthesis of polymer-grafted nanoparticles with hydrophilic corona.     

Reply to comment on “Limitation of uranium and thorium traces in charnockite matrix‐PIXE analyses at 3 MeV with Si (Li) detector”

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Secondary Metabolites of Litchi chinensis

Chemistry of Natural Compounds -     

Chemical Composition and Antioxidant Activity of Essential Oil from Fruit of Schisandra perulata

Chemistry of Natural Compounds -