Desorption of hydrogen from the electrode surface under influence of an external magnetic field

The effect of a uniform magnetic field in perpendicular-to-electrode configuration, on the hydrogen evolution reaction was investigated during the deposition of Fe and CoFe alloys. It was found that the desorption of hydrogen is supported in a magnetic field. This effect is discussed in details with respect to the micro-magnetohydrodynamic convection, which arises due to the fluctuation of the current distribution close to the H₂ bubble.     

Three-dimensional square water in the presence of an external electric field

In this work we study a tridimensional statistical model for the hydrogen-bond (HB) network formed in liquid water in the presence of an external electric field. This model is analogous to the so-called square water, whose ground state gives a good estimate for the residual entropy of the ice. In our case, each water molecule occupies one site of a cubic lattice, and no hole is allowed. The hydrogen atoms of water molecules are disposed at the lines connecting nearest-neighbor sites, in a way that each water can be found in 15 different states. We say that there is a hydrogen bond between two neighboring molecules when only one hydrogen is in the line connecting both molecules. Through Monte Carlo simulations with Metropolis and entropic sampling algorithms, and by exact calculations for small lattices, we determined the dependence of the number of molecules aligned to the field and the number of hydrogen bonds per molecule as a function of temperature and the intensity of the external field. The results for both approaches showed that, different of the two-dimensional case, there is no maximum in the number of HBs as a function of the electric field. However, we observed nonmonotonic behaviors as a function of the temperature of the quantities of interest. We also found the dependence of the entropy on the external electric field at very low temperatures. In this case, the entropy vanishes for the value of the external field for which the contributions to the total energy coming from the HBs and the field become the same.     

Calculation of the Helmholtz potential of an elastic strand in an external electric field

We derive from statistical mechanics the Gibbs free energy of an elastic random-walk chain affected by the presence of an external electric field. Intrachain charge interactions are ignored. In addition, we find two approximations of the Helmholtz potential for this system analogous to the gaussian and Cohen-Pade? approximations for an elastic strand without the presence of an electric field. Our expressions agree well with exact numerical calculations of the potential in a wide range of conditions. Our analog of the gaussian approximation exhibits distortion of the monomer density due to the presence of the electric field, and our analog of the Cohen-Pade? approximation additionally includes finite chain extensibility effects. The Helmholtz potential may be used in modeling the dynamics of electrophoresis experiments.     

Transient effects in electrolytic cells submitted to an external electric field

We analyse transient effects in an electrolytic cell submitted to an external voltage and determine the relaxation time of the redistribution of the ions and of the potential. We consider the case in which adsorption effects at the interface with the electrodes are present and show that the typical relaxation time, for applied voltage V ₀25 mV, is of the order of tens of seconds for commercial nematic liquid crystals. When V ₀>25 mV the linearized analysis is no longer valid. In this case, the relaxation time depends on the applied voltage. Increasing V ₀, but still remaining in the low amplitude limit, the relaxation time starts increasing. This indicates that the reduction of the actual field in the sample, for moderate values of V ₀, plays an important role. For large values of V ₀, the relaxation time is a decreasing function of V ₀. This result is interpreted in terms of a simple model, according to which the ionic charge is localized in a surface layer whose thickness depends on the amplitude of the applied voltage.     

A molecular orbital study of the effect of an external electric field on methanol

We report the results of INDO-MO calculations to investigate the influence of an external electric field on methanol. We predict that during a field-ionisation experiment, ionisation will occur from a quite different molecular geometry than the field-free olie.     

The influence of an electric and magnetic field in chemical reactions

We have shown that a simultaneous application of uniform and constant electric and magnetic fields cannot affect the equality of the equilibrium enantiomeric populations in a racemic reaction mixture. Hence, whatever the sources of the rotations reported, they cannot have had their origin in uniform applied fields if the reactions have gone to completion.     

基于密度泛函理论的外电场下c-C4F8的结构及其特性

采用密度泛函理论CAM-B3LYP/DGDZVP2对c-C4F8进行优化计算,得到基态分子结构.在该结构基础上施加线性外电场(0~10.284 V·pm^-1),获得了c-C4F8的几何特性、能量、前线轨道能级、键能和红外光谱数据.结果表明:当电场沿x轴变大时,c-C4F8的点群从D2d变为C1,偶极矩和极化率不断增大,结构稳定性降低;分子总能量和能隙不断减小,且C(4)-F(10)键的键能降低速度最快,最有可能率先在外电场作用下断裂,导致c-C4F8结构和对称性被破坏.同时c-C4F8的绝热电子亲和能单调上升,分子吸收自由电子的能力增强;红外光谱中,吸收峰的个数增加,4个主要吸收峰发生了红移.     

Control of effect on the nucleation rate for hen egg white lysozyme crystals under application of an external ac electric field

The effect of an external ac electric field on the nucleation rate of hen egg white lysozyme crystals increased with an increase in the concentration of the precipitant used, which enabled the design of an electric double layer (EDL) formed at the inner surface of the drop in the oil. This is attributed to the thickness of the EDL controlled by the ionic strength of the precipitant used. Control of the EDL formed at the interface between the two phases is important to establishing this novel technique for the crystallization of proteins under the application of an external ac electric field.     

Rotational diffusion and alignment of short gold nanorods in an external electric field

We present measurements of the polarized extinction of gold nanorod suspensions exposed to an external electric field. By employing an amplitude modulated field in combination with lock-in detection we resolve changes in the optical density as low as 10(-6) in an integration time of 10 s. This sensitivity allows us to probe the partial alignment of small gold nanorods with an aspect ratio of 2.5 and a width ranging from 13 nm to 28 nm. The degree of orientation scales as the square of the electric field strength, as expected for an induced dipole moment in an external field. By varying the modulation frequency we measure the rotation diffusion constant of different samples, which are in excellent agreement with the calculated values for a short cylinder.     

Thermal desorption of cations from polysilicates and zeolites in an external electric field

The desorption of cations from crystalline polysilicates and polysilicic acids, A and Y zeolites, and natural mordenite in the NH₄, H, and dealuminized forms under the action of a strong electrostatic field at temperatures ranging from 20 to 600°C has been studied. The desorption of sodium and potassium cations was detected above a temperature of 150–200°C, and magnesium, calcium, and aluminum cations were not detected. Potassium cations are desorbed at lower temperatures than are sodium cations. Zeolite NaA retains cations more strongly than-does zeolite NaY. The observed spectra are consistent with the concentrations of the cations and the structural features of the samples studied.Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Éksperimental'naya Khimiya, Vol. 24, No. 5, pp. 626–629, September–October, 1988.     

Local order and shape of a polymer chain in an external electric field

A solution of polymer chains in the presence of an external electric field is considered. Dipole-like interactions between polymer chain segment-vectors and the electric field are assumed to be proportional to the cosine of the angle between the segment-vector and the direction of the electric field. Parameters characterizing the shape of the chain (i.e., the chain end-to-end distance and cross-section per chain), and parameters describing the local order at the segmental and chain level (i.e., moments of the first and second Legendre polynomials 〈P₁〉 and 〈P₂〉 are calculated. The optical anisotropy and the molecular shape change induced by the external electric field are discussed.     

Polymer translocation through a nanopore under an applied external field

We investigate the dynamics of polymer translocation through a nanopore under an externally applied field using the two-dimensional fluctuating bond model with single-segment Monte Carlo moves. We concentrate on the influence of the field strength E, length of the chain N, and length of the pore L on forced translocation. As our main result, we find a crossover scaling for the translocation time tau with the chain length from tau approximately N2nu for relatively short polymers to tau approximately N1+nu for longer chains, where nu is the Flory exponent. We demonstrate that this crossover is due to the change in the dependence of the translocation velocity v on the chain length. For relatively short chains v approximately N-nu, which crosses over to v approximately N(-1) for long polymers. The reason for this is that with increasing N there is a high density of segments near the exit of the pore, which slows down the translocation process due to slow relaxation of the chain. For the case of a long nanopore for which R parallel, the radius of gyration Rg along the pore, is smaller than the pore length, we find no clear scaling of the translocation time with the chain length. For large N, however, the asymptotic scaling tau approximately N1+nu is recovered. In this regime, tau is almost independent of L. We have previously found that for a polymer, which is initially placed in the middle of the pore, there is a minimum in the escape time for R parallel approximately L. We show here that this minimum persists for weak fields E such that EL is less than some critical value, but vanishes for large values of EL.     

Synthesis of iron(III) oxide from solution under exposure to external electric field

New method for controlling the physicochemical properties and morphology of iron oxide is suggested. The methods of transmission and scanning electron microscopy and X-ray phase and thermal analysis were used to study the structure and properties of highly dispersed iron oxides formed under exposure of the reaction mixture to an external electric field. The effect of synthesis conditions on the formation of structure and morphology of particles of iron oxide, a compound that finds practical application as a pigment or catalyst base, was examined.     

Transient response of an electrorheological fluid under square-wave electric field excitation

The transient process of an electrorheological (ER) fluid based on zeolite and silicone oil sheared between two parallel plates to which a square-wave electric field is applied has been experimentally studied. The transient shear stress response to the strain or time is tested. The characteristic constants of time under different applied electric fields and shear rates have been determined. The response time is found to be proportional to shear rate with an exponent of about -0.75 in the tested shear rate range, which agrees with the theoretical predictions made by others. But it only shows a small dependence on the strength of the applied electric field. The results show that the transient process of ER fluids is related to the structure formation in the shearing. When the required shear strain is reached, the shear stress rises to a stable value under constant electric field. Although the electric field strength greatly affects the yield strength, it shows little effect on the stress response time. Also, experiments showed the electric field-induced shear stress decreased with an increase of shear rate.     

The influence of an electric field on the wetting of an SiO2 film by ionic liquids

The electrowetting of a dielectric SiO₂ film 100 nm thick by drops (D = 2–3 mm) of [C₄mIm][PF₆], [C₆mIm][PF₆], and [C₆mIm][BTI] ionic liquids was studied at |U| ≤ 60 V in a ～10^?8 mbar vacuum. Electrocapillary curves of the dependence of the wetting angle on electric field potential were constructed with an accuracy of ±1 deg. In conformity with the Young-Lippman equation, the wetting angle θ° decreased by the parabolic law from 51° to 43° for [C₄mIm][PF₆], from 48° to 38° for [C₆mIm][PF₆], and from 35° to 27° for [C₆mIm][BTI] as |U| increased at 298 K. The electrocapillary curve branches were situated symmetrically in the (θ°, U) coordinates with respect to the line passing through the point U = 0; that is, zero-charge potential is zero for the electrowetting of the dielectric film by the ionic liquids. The capacitance of the double electrical layer at the ionic liquid-dielectric interface was determined. This value was found to be 4.65, 2.93, and 1.73 μF/m² for the electrowetting of the SiO₂ film at 298 K by the ionic liquids specified, respectively.     

An analysis of the influence of vibrations on electric field gradient tensors in solid hydrates

A method is described for calculating the influence of vibrational motion on the electric field gradient tensors at deuterons in solid hydrates using librational tensors. The method is applied to model calculations to illustrate the effect of normal modes which involve a mixture of standard wagging, twisting and rocking modes.     

Observations on the formation of spark discharge and its influence by an external magnetic field

Described are a series of experiments executed to characterize the physical and chemical nature of spark discharge in argon at atmospheric pressure. Results are reported concerning the expansion properties of the spark and the distribution and longevity of cathode material in and around the spark channel following cessation of the discharge current. The nature of a previously reported symmetrical post-discharge torus is studied at high spark repetition rates. The interaction of residual vapor on following sparks is investigated. Basic features of the spark process are generalized with a set of Schlieren photographs that show bulk motion of the spark plasma. Time-resolved and space-resolved emission and absorption experiments on magnesium electrodes suggest a charged nature to the post-discharge environment. The bulk plasma character is probed further with external magnetic fields to determine the existence of charged species within the post-discharge torus, and the effects of magnetic forces on its formation.