Rheology of plastic fats

Summary A plastic material is obtained by rapid cooling of a solution of glyceryl tristearate in paraffin oil. The fat crystals produced form a three-dimensional network structure, which is mainly responsible for the rheological properties of the material.The properties have been investigated by means of creep measurements at deformations not exceeding a few percent, and in a concentric cylinder viscometer at very low shear rates.Results of measurements are discussed in terms of the properties of the three-dimensional network of fat crystals.

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Zusammenfassung Eine plastische Substanz wird durch rasches Abkühlen einer Lösung von Glyceryltristearat in Paraffinöl erhalten. Es entstehen dabei zusammenhängende Fettkristalle, welche eine feste Struktur bilden. Die Theologischen Eigenschaften des Materials werden hauptsächlich durch diese vernetzte Struktur der festen Teilchen bestimmt.Die Messung der Eigenschaften erfolgte mittels Kriechversuchen bei sehr kleinen Deformationen und im Rotationsviskosimeter bei sehr niedrigem Geschwindigkeitsgefälle. Die Ergebnisse dieser Messungen werden an Hand von den Eigenschaften der vernetzten Struktur der Fettkristalle diskutiert.

     

Interaction forces between condensed bodies in contact

Interaction forces at very small distances have mainly been investigated by extrapolation from larger distances, and by wetting and contact angle studies. The main result is a satisfactory understanding of the contribution of Van der Waals forces. Other types of forces, in particular those that may arise at distances of atomic dimensions, are not understood. The paper attempts to investigate the “other” forces by combining evidence from contact angle studies with results of direct measurements of the force of adhesion between a small, spherical particle and a flat substrate.     

Vectorial Approach to Fast Correlation Attacks

A new, vectorial approach to fast correlation attacks on binary memoryless combiners is proposed. Instead of individual input sequences or their linear combinations, the new attack is targeting subsets of input sequences as a whole thus exploiting the full correlation between the chosen subset and the output sequence. In particular, the set of all the input sequences can be chosen as the target. The attack is based on a novel iterative probabilistic algorithm which is also applicable to general memoryless combiners over finite fields or finite rings. To illustrate the effectiveness of the introduced approach, experimental results obtained for random balanced combining functions are presentedMost of this work was done while he was with Rome CryptoDesign Center, Gemplus, Italy     

On the Motion of a Dynamic System with Minimal Dissipation

The motion of a holonomic scleronomic non-conservative mechanicalsystem with minimal dissipation is considered. As applicationsof the theory several problems are studied in detail.     

Exciton coherence lifetimes from electronic structure

We model the coherent energy transfer of an electronic excitation within covalently linked aromatic homodimers from first-principles. Our results shed light on whether commonly used models of the bath calculated via detailed electronic structure calculations can reproduce the key dynamics. For the systems we model, the time scales of coherent transport are experimentally known from time-dependent polarization anisotropy measurements, and so we can directly assess whether current techniques are predictive for modeling coherent transport. The coupling of the electronic degrees of freedom to the nuclear degrees of freedom is calculated from first-principles rather than assumed, and the fluorescence anisotropy decay is directly reproduced. Surprisingly, we find that although time-dependent density functional theory absolute energies are routinely in error by orders of magnitude more than the coupling energy between monomers, the coherent transport properties of these dimers can be semi-quantitatively reproduced from these calculations. Future directions which must be pursued to yield predictive and reliable models of coherent transport are suggested.