Hydrodynamical properties of polydisperse polyisobutene in cyclohexane

Diffusion coefficients and intrinsic viscosities were measured for 7 polydisperse polyisobutene samples in cyclohexane at 25 °C. The experimental values forD ₀ are in agreement with the calculated values using a common equivalent hydrodynamic sphere model in whichR =R _f.     

Tuning electronic properties of metallic atom in bondage to a nanospace

The possibility of modulating the electronic configurations of the innermost atoms inside a nanospace, nano sheath with chemical modification was investigated using synchrotron X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Systems of definite nanostructures were chosen for this study. Systematic variations in energy, intensity, and width of pi and sigma O 1s core level spectra, in absorption characteristics of C 1s-->pi transition, in photoabsorption of pre-edge and resonance regions of the Gd 4d-->4f transition, were observed for Gd@C(82) (an isolated nanospace for Gd), Gd@C(82)(OH)(12) (a modified nanospace for Gd), and Gd@C(82)(OH)(22) (a differently modified nanospace for Gd), and the reference materials Gd-DTPA (a semi-closed space for Gd) and Gd(2)O(3). A sandwich-type electronic interaction along [outer modification group]-[nano sheaths]-[inner metallic atom] was observed in the molecules of modifications. This makes it possible to control electron-donation directions, either from the innermost metallic atom toward the outer nano sheaths or the reverse. The results suggest that one may effectively tune the fine structures of electronic configurations of such a metallic atom being astricted into nanostructures through changing the number or category of outer groups of chemical modifications. This may open a door to realizing the desired designs for electronic and magnetic properties of functionalized nanomaterials.     

Permeation of water as a tool for characterizing the effect of solvent, film thickness and water solubility in cellulose acetate membranes

Cellulose acetate membranes have been used in many applications; of particular interest are reverse osmosis systems, and as a neutral matrix for incorporation of different polymers (e.g., conducting polymers), inorganic ions (e.g., lanthanides) and organic (e.g., pharmaceutical) compounds. The properties of the new polymers derived from cellulose acetate or blends depend on those of cellulose acetate. This work presents an attempt to find links between thermodynamic and kinetic properties of cellulose acetate membranes in equilibrium with water. Water diffusion coefficients in cellulose acetate membranes are reported, measured with a simple water permeation technique. The comparison of these values with the percentage of water uptake and polymer thickness leads to interesting conclusions related with different polymer properties.     

水凝胶中物质扩散过程研究进展

主要从模型理论和实验研究方法两个方面综述了国内外聚合物水凝胶中物质扩散行为研究进展.水凝胶中扩散理论模型主要有自由体积模型、流体力学模型、位阻效应模型三大类;实验研究方法主要分为间接法和实时法两种.     

水分子簇在聚丙烯酰胺膜中的渗透研究

在不同蒸气活度下,通过吸附动力学实验,测定了蒸气状态的水分子簇在聚丙烯酰胺(PAM)膜中的动态吸附曲线,改进了ENSIC模型并用于计算水分子簇在膜内的扩散系数。结果显示,随着水蒸气活度的增加,膜内水分子簇尺寸增大,并在膜的微孔内产生多层吸附甚至毛细管冷凝,导致扩散系数迅速降低。     

Barbier-type reaction mediated with tin nano-particles in water

Tin nano-particles are employed in the Barbier-type allylation reaction of carbonyl compounds in water to afford the corresponding homoallylic alcohols in good yields. The in situ generated allylation intermediates, allyltin(II) bromide and diallyltin dibromide, have been directly observed by using ¹H NMR. A mechanism is proposed based on this observation.     

Transport properties of water in hydroxypropyl methylcellulose

The relation between the self-diffusion coefficient, D_self, of water and the free volume hole size, V_h, has been investigated in a hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC)-water system in the water content range 0.08-0.36 w/w, at room temperature. Furthermore, the thermal properties of the water in the HPMC-water system, as measured with differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and the tensile storage, E′, and tensile loss, E″, moduli, of the HPMC-water systems, as determined with dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA), have been probed. Pulsed-field gradient nuclear magnetic resonance (PFG NMR) was used to measure the D_self of water and positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy (PALS) was used to measure the ortho-Positronium (o-Ps) lifetime in the HPMC-water system. The glass transition temperature of the HPMC was found to be reduced by the water to room temperature in the water content range 0.10-0.15 w/w. The relation between ln D_self of water and the inverse free volume hole size of the HPMC-water system was non-linear. Furthermore, the PALS measurements showed that molecular water co-existed with water clusters in the HPMC-water system.     

Gas transport properties of poly(ethylene oxide-co-epichlorohydrin) membranes

Gas permeation properties of crosslinked membranes prepared from a series of poly(ethylene oxide-co-epichlorohydrin) (P(EO/EP)) copolymers with different contents of ethylene oxide are determined by using the constant-volume and pressure-increase method. In addition to the chemical composition, the transport properties are related to the main characteristics of copolymers like the glass transition temperature, crystallinity and crosslinking ratio. Permeation measurements of He, H₂, N₂, O₂, CO₂ and CH₄ show that the permeabilities are nearly constant up to an EO content of about 75–80 mol%, then increase rapidly up to a maximum around 90 mol% of EO in the copolymers. The same behavior is observed for the diffusion coefficient and the CO₂ sorption coefficient. The presence of an optimal EO composition is explained by the competition between crystalline and amorphous EO sequences. The copolymers present very high CO₂ permeability and selectivity respect to other permanent gases even in gas mixtures and under high pressures.     

循环伏安法研究超分子有机凝胶中二茂铁的扩散

4,4′-二(硬脂酰胺基)-二苯甲烷(BSAPM)在LiClO4/碳酸丙烯酯(PC)中能形成超分子有机凝胶。用循环伏安法研究了包埋在凝胶中的二茂铁的氧化还原行为。结果表明,有机凝胶内的二茂铁仍具有氧化还原活性,其氧化还原行为是受扩散控制的单电子可逆转移过程。与溶液相比,最低化凝胶浓度下凝胶中二茂铁和二茂铁离子的扩散系数分别从5.62×10-6cm2/s和6.47×10-6cm2/s下降为3.32×10-6cm2/s和4.41×10-6cm2/s,且随凝胶因子浓度的增加,凝胶中二茂铁和二茂铁离子的扩散系数降低。     

Binary diffusion coefficients of phenolic compounds in subcritical water using a chromatographic peak broadening technique

Infinite dilution diffusion coefficients of certain phenolic compounds were measured as a function of temperature in water slightly acidified with formic acid using the Taylor dispersion method. The diffusion coefficients calculated using the chromatographic peak broadening technique were found to increase exponentially with an increase in the temperature. The diffusion coefficients of the selected phenolic compounds did not vary as a function of their molecular weights and the diffusion coefficients of the phenolic compounds increased as a function of temperature (from 2.16 × 10⁻¹⁰ m² s⁻¹ at 298 K to 5.79 × 10⁻¹⁰ m² s⁻¹ at 413 K for malvidin-3,5-diglucoside). However, for some phenolic compounds such as gallic acid monohydrate, quercetin-3-β-d-glucoside, protocatechuic acid and (−)-epicatechin, there were difficulties in making measurements above temperatures of 352 K, 372 K, 392 K and 413 K, respectively, due to thermal degradation of the phenolic compounds in water above these temperatures. The experimentally measured diffusion coefficients of the phenolic compounds were correlated as a function of temperature and solvent viscosity and were compared with those predicted using theoretical models. The validity of the Stokes-Einstein diffusion model in predicting the diffusion coefficients of the phenolic compounds in hot pressurized water was also evaluated.     

Study of the diffusion of pyrene in silicone polymer coatings by steady state fluorescence technique: effects of pyrene concentration

The concentration dependence of the diffusion coefficient of pyrene in single component and two-component room temperature curing silicone polymer coatings is investigated by the steady state fluorescence technique by measuring the pyrene excimer fluorescence intensity. At pyrene concentrations lower than 10 mM, the intensity of excimer fluorescence is proportional to the concentration and at higher concentrations it deviates from this trend due to concentration quenching. Thermal aging studies show that this concentration quenching can be removed by thermal annealing and the excimer emission intensity approaches the value expected from the trend at lower concentrations. The diffusion coefficient of pyrene at low concentrations in silicone polymer coatings is obtained using the approximate solution of one-dimensional diffusion equation. A modified approach is employed to estimate the diffusion coefficient at higher pyrene concentrations. In this method, the excimer intensity and time scale are shifted, respectively to I_max the maximum value of excimer intensity attained during annealing and t_max, the time taken to reach this. The estimated diffusion coefficients at different pyrene concentrations show a negligible dependence on pyrene concentration in both types of polymers. These results are attributed to the high structural mobility of silicone polymer chains due to their molecular structure.     

Colloidal particle motion as a diagnostic of DNA conformational transitions

Tethered particle motion is an experimental technique to monitor conformational changes in single molecules of DNA in real time, by observing the position fluctuations of a micrometer-size particle attached to the DNA. This article reviews some recent work on theoretical problems inherent in the interpretation of TPM experiments, both in equilibrium and dynamical aspects.     

Impact of thermal ageing on sorption and diffusion properties of PTMSP

Gas and vapour permeability in both freshly cast and aged poly(1-trimethylsilyl-1-propyne) (PTMSP) membranes were investigated in terms of solubility and diffusion coefficients for two probe molecules, a permanent gas (nitrogen) and an organic vapour (dichloromethane). To get reliable data for this study, we set up a fast and reproducible ageing procedure consisting of thermal treatment of the polymer films (100 °C during 24 h under vacuum). As expected, measurements recorded from time-lag experiments and isothermal sorption showed strong variations of the PTMSP transport properties before and after the thermal ageing procedure. Freshly cast membranes exhibited high permeability, whereas after ageing a 40–45% decrease of the permeability was recorded for both probes. The results demonstrated that only the glassy physical microstructure of PTMSP was affected by the ageing procedure, while the chemical structure was unchanged. Based on a dual-mode model for sorption and a Long's model for diffusion, the analysis of the data showed that the solubility and diffusion coefficients of the gas and the vapour were not affected in the same way. For nitrogen, only the diffusion coefficient decreased, whereas for dichloromethane, the thermal treatment mainly influenced the sorption coefficient. The lower permeability due to the combination of sorption and diffusion parameters could be attributed to a change of the PTMSP hole geometry or the hole connections.     

Electrochemical properties of modified carbon paste electrodes containing some amino derivatives of 9,10-anthraquinone

The preparation and aqueous electrochemistry of carbon paste electrodes modified by some amino-substituted 9,10-anthraquinones are reported. In all cases, the reduction processes studied by cyclic voltammetry reveal a quasi-reversible behavior. The half-wave potentials were calculated as a function of the solution pH and from the resulting potential-pH plots the formal potentials and pK _a ^′ values of different redox and acid-base couples involved at various pH ranges were evaluated. The diffusion coefficients of different anthraquinone derivatives used in paraffin oil were calculated by chronoamperometry. Received: 3 May 1999 / Accepted: 15 November 1999     

Diffusion Kinetics Study of Lithium Ion in the Graphdiyne Based Electrode

Herein,we report a comparative investigation of the electrochemical lithium diffusion within graphidyne(GDY)based electrodes.The transfer kinetic behaviors of lithium ions during the insertion/extraction process are analyzed through different methods including the galvanostatic intermittent titration technique(GITT)and the electrochemical impedance spectroscopy(EIS).GDY with the morphology of nanosheets(GDY NS)shows lithium diffusion coefficients in the orders range of 10-12-10-13 cm2/s through the GITT method.Meanwhile,EIS indicates quite a lower value of lithium diffusion coefficients between 10-13 and 10-15 cm2/s,which indicates that the analysis technique has an influence on the evaluation of GDY-based electrodes.In addition,under the same measurement condition of GITT,GDY nanoparticles(GDY NP)exhibit a lower value of Li+diffusion coefficient(10-14-10-16 cm2/s)during the charge-discharge process compared to those of GDY NS,which can be ascribed to the wide distributing range of particle size in GDY NP based electrodes.The analysis results in this work reveal that the aggregating forms of GDY electrode material have an important effect on the diffusion process of lithium ions,which provides a pathway to optimize the performance of GDY-based energy storage devices.     

The properties of a single polymer chain in solvent confined in a slit: A molecular dynamics simulation

A single polymer chain in solvent confined in a slit formed by two parallel plates is studied by using molecular dynamics simulation method. The square radii of gyration and diffusion behaviors of polymers are greatly affected by the distance between the two plates, but they do not follow the same way. The chain size decays drastically with increasing h (h is the distance between two plates), until a basin occurs, and a universal h/〈R _g〉₀ dependence for polymer chains with different degrees of polymerization can be obtained. While, for the chain’s diffusion coefficient, it decays monotonously and there is no such basin-like behavior. Furthermore, we studied the radial distribution function of confined polymer chains to explain the reason why there is a difference for the decay behaviors between dynamic properties and static properties. Besides, we also give the degree of confinement dependence of the static scaling exponent for a single polymer chain. Our work provides an efficient way to estimate the dynamics and static properties of confined polymer chains, and also helps us to understand the behavior of polymer chains under confinement.     

Study on gas adsorption and desorption characteristics on water injection coal

To study the desorption mechanism of methane in coal by H₂O injection and establish the Wiser molecular structure model of bituminous coal, the Grand Canonical Monte Carlo method was used to study the desorption behavior of CH₄ in coal with different amounts of H₂O injection at molecular scale. The results showed that at 293 K, the maximum adsorption capacity of H₂O was about 16 mmol/g, and that of CH₄ was about 8 mmol/g, which was about twice that of CH₄. This indicates that H₂O has a stronger adsorption capacity than CH₄. For methane-bearing coal, when the amount of water injected is 100, the average relative concentration of CH₄ is 0.5446, and the average relative concentration of CH₄ decreases by 33.77% compared to the water content of 20. Under the same time conditions, the root mean square displacement and diffusion coefficient of CH₄ decrease with the increase of H₂O injection quantity. With the increase of H₂O injection, the motion velocity of CH₄ in vacuum layer decreased. When water was injected, methane was trapped in the coal by water. The more H₂O injected, the more methane trapped in the coal, and the less methane desorption. This research lays a theoretical foundation for further research involving coal-water interaction.     

Structural and Transport Characteristics of UCl3 in Molten LiCl-KCl Mixture: a Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study

To obtain suitable data for the pyrometallurgical post-processing in the fusion-fission hybrid reactor, the structure and transport characteristics of molten LiCl-KCl mixture containing UCl₃ were studied by molecular dynamics simulation. The radial distribution functions, densities, and self-diffusion coefficients were investigated at various molar fractions of UCl₃. In the molten LiCl-KCl-UCl₃ salt mixture, the first peak for g_U-Cl(r) was located at 0.266 nm, which was slightly left-shifted than the X-ray diffraction data, i.e., 0.285 nm for pure molten UCl₃. The preexponential factors for U³⁺ decreased from 46.2×10^-5 cm²/s to 32.2×10^-5 cm²/s as the molar fraction of U³⁺ increased from 0.005 to 0.05.     

铜在低电导溶液中扩散机理的研究

双水内冷发电机空芯铜导线的腐蚀问题直接影响到火电厂发电机的安全经济运行．其腐蚀体系为纯铜和低电导水溶液（pH＝7．3，空气饱和，电导率＜10μS·cm－1）．我们已经用交流阻抗法对该体系进行了一些研究．由于该体系溶液电导率低，在交流阻抗谱的高频区出现高频半圆；低频区为一条文于实轴Z约45°的直线（不加缓蚀剂时）．如果在该体系中MABTA、MBT等缓蚀剂，低频区直线变为半圆．所以，低频区的阻抗代表了电极表面的特征，而高频区（如10k～100kHz范围）半圆是由于参比回路（包括参比电极、盐桥、鲁金毛细管等）中存在太大的电阻…