Necessary stationary condition for polarized radiation in scattering media

The stationary condition is derived taking into account the polarization of radiation in the general case of a scattering inhomogeneous medium in an arbitrary-shape emitter. The necessary stationary condition for an emitter in which radiation is emitted and extinguished simultaneously is complete extinction of the entire emitted radiation. Radiation extinction as a result of absorption by the medium and the emergence of radiation from the emitter is analyzed. The stationary condition is an analytical form of writing that extinction of radiation is a sure event whose probability is equal to unity. The passage of radiation through the medium is described on the basis of the linear transport theory with the help of the matrices of the Green functions. The stationary condition includes the characteristics of polarized radiation extinction of which is analyzed, the absorption coefficients of the medium, and the elements of the matrices of the Green functions, which are determined by optical and geometrical parameters of the emitter. The stationary condition obtained is used for deriving the relations between the components of scalar intensity observed in an arbitrary region of the emitter. These relations include, in addition to the absorption coefficients and the matrix elements of the Green functions, the powers of the primary radiation. Possible applications of the stationary condition and the relations between intensity components in computations and experimental studies are considered.     

New Phase in the Bi–Sr–Ca–Cu–O System

Cooling a melt of a Bi–Sr–Ca–Cu–O system (Bi:Sr:Ca:Cu = 4:3:3:4 or 2:2:2:4) from 1000°C-1050°C yielded crystals of a new red-colored nonsuperconducting phase, accompanying the superconducting 2212 and 2201 phases. Based on the EPR spectra, it was concluded that copper is univalent in this compound. The new phase has a composition Bi_2.2Sr_1.6Ca_1.3Cu₂Ox. The X-ray diffraction pattern has been indexed, and the unit cell parameters of the phase have been determined: space group P2/m, a = 12.93, b = 4.55, c = 10.94 ; = 102.72°.     

Potential of X-Ray Diffractometry in Structure Identification of Holmium Polysulfides

A series of experiments have been carried out to synthesize holmium polysulfides at temperatures from 600 to 840°C and sulfur vapor pressures of (2.1, 6.5, 16.7)á10⁵ Pa. Polysulfide crystals sized up to 2 mm and micron-sized powders were investigated thereafter by powder diffractometry. Powder diffraction patterns were calculated based on our previous X-ray structural data. Characteristic reflections have been revealed for the individual monoclinic and tetragonal phases, and X-ray phase analysis (XRPA) has been performed for all batches of the synthesis. The monoclinic phase is shown to prevail irrespective of the synthetic conditions. The tetragonal phase was found in amounts of up to 10 wt.%.     

Dilution effect on catalytic pyrolysis of hydrocarbons

It is shown that unlike thermal pyrolysis, the rate of catalytic pyrolysis is greatly affected by dilution of hydrocarbons with inert gases. The nature of this effect has been analyzed.

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The identification of vicinally substituted cyclohexane isomers in their mixtures by 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy

The radical addition reactions of organobromine compounds, XBr (X = CH2COOMe, PhCH2, CHBr2 and CCl3) with cyclohexene afforded mixtures of cis/trans isomer pairs of 1-X-2-Br-cyclohexanes. In addition to benzyl benzoyloxy derivatives are formed also, when benzoyl peroxide is used as an initiator. Owing to the great difficulties in separating these cis/trans isomer pairs, they are identified directly in their mixtures by NMR spectroscopy. In addition to one-dimensional (ID) 1H, proton decoupled 13C and DEPT-135, also two-dimensional (2D) 13C-13C INADEQUATE as well as 1H-13C HMQC experiments have been used in assigning the signals of each compound in their mixtures. The identification of each isomer was based on comparison of experimental 3J(H,H) coupling constants with theoretical ones based on the well-known Karplus type relationship. The more stable conformation for each isomer was estimated using the semiempirical AM1 molecular orbital method. The calculations support the isomer pair elucidations.     

Structural and preliminary molecular dynamics studies of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction center and its mutant form L(M196)H + H(M202)L

Pigment-protein interactions are responsible for the high efficiency of the light-energy transfer and conversion in photosynthesis. The reaction center (RC) from the purple bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides is the most convenient model for studying the mechanisms of primary processes of photosynthesis. Site-directed mutagenesis can be used to study the effect of the protein environment of electron-transfer cofactors on the optical properties, stability, pigment composition, and functional activity of RC. The preliminary analysis of RC was performed by computer simulation of the amino acid substitutions L(M196)H + H(M202)L at the pigment-protein interface and by estimating the stability of the threedimensional structure of the mutant RC by the molecular dynamics method. The doubly mutated reaction center was overexpressed, purified, and crystallized. The three-dimensional structure of this mutant was determined by X-ray crystallography and compared with the molecular dynamics model.     

Nonlinear Dynamics of Parametric Oscillations of Polaritons in a Microcavity

Optics and Spectroscopy - The dynamics of polaritons in a microcavity in the parametric oscillator mode, when two pump polaritons turn into the signal and idler polaritons and vice versa, has been...     

Structural and phase characteristics of the diamond/matrix interfacial zone in high-resistant diamond composites

The structural-phase state of the contact zone and the factors that influence on the strength of diamond retention in the diamond carbide composites were determined. Composites were obtained by the new hybrid technology that eliminates the reheating of the metalized coating. The elaborated technology combines the thermal diffusion metallization of a diamond and the sintering by the scheme of self-dosed impregnation in a one-stage technological cycle. By the methods of electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction analysis, and Raman spectroscopy the structural and phase characteristics of the interphase boundary were investigated. The improvement of chemical and mechanical adhesion between the diamond and carbide matrix was obtained. It was shown that the specific productivity of the samples with a metalized diamond component is 39% higher than those without metallization.     

Electrochemical oxidation of thiocyanates on a boron-doped diamond electrode in acid media

The kinetics and selectivity of the oxidation of thiocyanate on a boron-doped diamond (BDD) electrode in a 0.5 M solution of H₂SO₄ were studied. An analysis of the cyclic voltammetry curves showed that the oxidation of SCN^? was irreversible and occurred with diffusion control in the range of water decomposition potentials. The obtained kinetic dependences can be described by the pseudo-first order equation. The apparent rate constant depends on the current density and initial concentration of the reagent. The main product of oxidation at low current density and high concentration of SCN^? was CN^?.