Proton spin-lattice relaxation in liquid water and liquid ammonia

The proton spin-lattice relaxation time has been measured at 20·8 Mc/s for a series of solutions of water in heavy water and solutions of ammonia in heavy ammonia for the temperature range from the melting point to the liquid-vapour critical temperature. Measurements have also been made for water over limited temperature ranges at several fixed densities.

The contributions to the spin-lattice relaxation time from direct dipolar and spin-rotation interactions have been separated. The spin-rotation interaction contribution appears to be the same for H₂O as for HDO and also as between NH₃, NH₂D and NHD₂ and this result is justified. The correlation times for molecular re-orientation, τ_d, and for molecular angular velocity, τ_sr, are derived from the results and in so doing some support for the Hubbard [12] relation betweent τ_sr and τ_d is adduced. It is found that at the critical temperature τ_sr?τ_d which contrasts with other liquids for which it is usually found that τ_sr??τ_d. The spin-rotation interaction constants in the water and ammonia molecules are found to be approximately 120 kc/s and 80 kc/s, respectively.

An attempt to separate the inter- and intra-molecular contributions to the dipolar spin-lattice relaxation time is possible in principle, in spite of the rapid proton exchange, but is frustrated by the fact that the equilibrium constants are little different from their statistical values. Nevertheless there is evidence that the two interactions vary in much the same way with temperature.

The correlation times deduced from the dipolar relaxation time show close relationship with dielectric, self diffusion and deuteron relaxation time data.

It is suggested that the re-orientation of both water and ammonia molecules may be by a small angle Brownian diffusion even near the critical temperature.     

Fundamentals of liquid crystals and other liquid display technologies

A review of the fundamental concepts associated with passive displays based on liquid crystals and other liquid media is presented. The operation of dynamic scattering and field-effect type liquid crystal displays is discussed in detail. Electrophoretic, electrochromic, rotatable dipole, and liquid vapour displays are also described.     

Anyonic loops in three-dimensional spin liquid and chiral spin liquid

We established a large class of exactly soluble spin liquids and chiral spin liquids on three-dimensional helix lattices by introducing Kitaev-type's spin coupling. In the chiral spin liquids, exact stable ground states with spontaneous breaking of the time reversal symmetry are found. The fractionalized loop excitations in both the spin and chiral spin liquids obey non-Abelian statistics. We characterize this kind of statistics by non-Abelian Berry phase and quantum algebra relation. The topological correlation of loops is independent of local order parameter and it measures the intrinsic global quantum entanglement of degenerate ground states.     

Surface-mediated liquid transport through molecularly thin liquid films on nanotubes

We studied surface-mediated liquid transport through molecularly thin films on individual nanotubes in ambient conditions. The surface fluid with molecular thickness (approximately 10 A) flowed at a constant speed (approximately 10 microm/s) and volume flow rate (approximately 10 al/s) along the nanotubes. The volume flow rate Q follows the power law dependence Q approximately d2.4 on the nanotube diameter d, which is explained with a generic microscopic model.     

Nonlinear ultrasonic nature of organic liquid and organic liquid mixture

Based on Jacobson's molecular free length theory in liquids and the relationship between ultrasonic velocity and the molecular free length in organic liquids, this paper deduces the equations for pressure coefficient and temperature coefficient of ultrasonic velocity and nonlinear acoustic parameter B/A in both of organic liquid and organic liquid binary mixtures. These nonlinear acoustic parameters are evaluated against the measured results and data from other sources. The equations reveal the connections between the nonlinear acoustic parameters and some internal structural of the medium or mixtures e.g. the sizes of molecule, several thermodynamic physical parameters and outside status e.g. condition of pressure and temperature of the liquid or liquid mixture. With the equations the nonlinear acoustic parameter B/A of organic liquid binary mixtures, which is impossible to know without the nonlinear acoustic parameter B/A of the tow components before, can be calculated based on the structural and physical parameters of organic liquid and organic liquid binary mixtures.     

液体在单根纳米管表面上的输运

文章研究了在单根纳米管表而上形成的分子级液膜的传输现象。实验发现，厚度在-10A量级的表面流体在表而力的驱动下沿纳米管以恒定的速度（-10μm/s）和容量流速（-10al／s）流动。容量流速Q与纳米管直径d之间成幂函数关系，Q—d^2．4。此结果对实现用纳米管作为液体输运器件具有指导意义。     

How topological rearrangements and liquid fraction control liquid foam stability

The stability of foam is investigated experimentally through coalescence events. Instability (coalescence) occurs when the system is submitted to external perturbations (T1) and when the liquid amount in the film network is below a critical value. Microscopically, transient thick films are observed during film rearrangements. Film rupture, with coalescence and eventual collapse of the foam, occurs when the available local liquid amount is too small for transient films to be formed. Similar experiments and results are shown in the two-bubble case.     

ZnO-ionic liquid nanostructures

The mixture of nanostructures derived from the surface interactions and reactivity of ZnO nanoparticles with the room-temperature ionic liquid (IL1) 1-hexyl, 3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate has been studied. Results are discussed on the basis of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) observations, energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) analysis, X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) determinations. Size and morphology changes in ZnO nanoparticles by surface modification with IL1 are observed. ZnF₂ crystalline needles due to reaction with the hexafluorophosphate anion are also formed.     

Ferromagnetic liquid droplets

Experimental evidence for ferromagnetic behavior of liquid droplets produced by laser ablation from amorphous alloys is presented for the first time. Thin films of amorphous magnetic materials are fabricated by a laser deposition technique in the presence and in the absence of magnetic field. The differences in the parameters of deposited films are attributed to the ferromagnetic properties of small liquid droplets. Pis’ma Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 67, No. 9, 686–689 (10 May 1998) Published in English in the original Russian journal. Edited by Steve Torstveit.     

Ten years of dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction and derived techniques

Novel solvent microextraction techniques are presently receiving a great deal of interest from analytical chemists, as confirmed by the constantly increasing number of published papers on the topic. The present overview offers a comprehensive collection of publications devoted to dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction and dispersive liquid-phase microextraction as well as their modalities. We cover the articles that were available online up to April 30, 2016. The applications of these techniques are summarized in the tables.     

Thermally switchable flexible liquid crystal devices in prepolymer-doped cholesteric liquid crystals

This work describes an approach for fabricating thermally switchable flexible liquid crystal devices in prepolymer-doped cholesteric liquid crystals (CLCs). The roughness of the UV-cured polymer film eliminates the stability of planar CLCs, allowing the textures in the UV-cured regions to be changed from planar to focal conic. Impurities associated with doping with prepolymers cause the clearing temperature of LCs in the UV-cured regions to differ from that in the uncured regions as the prepolymers are polymerized. Therefore, the textures in these two regions can be switched by controlling the temperature. Thermally switchable flexible LC devices, such as optically addressed smart cards, light valves, and others, can be realized using this approach.     

The structure factor for liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen by neutron scattering

The structure factor S(Q) has been measured for liquid nitrogen at 77 K by neutron diffraction at four wavelengths. The effects of Placzek corrections on the self [1, 2] and interference [3] components of the observed differential scattering cross-sections at 0·35, 0·7, 0·84 and 1·06 Å [4] have been investigated. Effective molecular masses and internuclear bond lengths have been obtained by fitting a modified Placzek model to the observed data. It is concluded that after correction the different structure factors agree satisfactorily within the statistical errors of the measurements and the internuclear bond length is close to that measured in the gas phase.     

Paramagnetic nematic liquid crystals

The paper reports new nematic liquid crystals that are paramagnetic.     

The liquid vapour interface

In this short review we are concerned with the density variation across the liquid-vapour interface, i.e. from the bulk density of the liquid to the essentially zero density of the vapour phase. This density variation can in principle be determined from the deviation of the reflectivity from Fresnel's law for incidence angles larger than the critical angle for total reflection. However, in this range the reflectivity may typically have dropped by 7 or 8 order of magnitude from its value below the critical angle, and therefore the availability of intense synchrotron radiation sources have made such measurements practically feasible.     

Photorefractive polymer-dispersed liquid crystals

We report observation of the photorefractive effect in functionalized polymer-dispersed liquid crystals. The photoconductive properties are provided by the polymer matrix, and the field-dependent refractive-index changes are generated by the dispersed nematic liquid-crystal droplets. A high diffraction efficiency (8%) and a high refractive-index modulation amplitude (Dn = 2 x 10(-3)) are obtained in 53- microm-thick samples with an applied field of 22 V/microm.