Electrical and spectral properties of organic salts formed from BEDT-TTF and magnetic anions

Spectral and electrical investigations of the semiconducting (BEDT-TTF)₂W₆O₁₉ and the metal-like (BEDT-TTF)₆(Mo₈O₂₆)(DMF)₃ salts were performed. The vibrational and electronic spectra of the crystalline samples were analysed and assignment of the vibrational features was proposed. The temperature evolution of the vibrational spectra of the (BEDT-TTF)₂W₆O₁₉ salt was discussed.     

Compressible Navier-Stokes equations with ripped density

We are concerned with the Cauchy problem for the two-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations  supplemented with general H¹ initial velocity and bounded initial density not necessarily strictly positive: it may be the characteristic function of any set, for instance. In the perfect gas case, we establish global-in-time existence and uniqueness, provided the volume (bulk) viscosity coefficient is large enough. For more general pressure laws (like e.g., $P={\rho }^{\gamma }$ with $\gamma >1$), we still get global existence, but uniqueness remains an open question. As a by-product of our results, we give a rigorous justification of the convergence to the inhomogeneous incompressible Navier-Stokes equations when the bulk viscosity tends to infinity. In the three-dimensional case, similar results are proved for short time without restriction on the viscosity, and for large time if the initial velocity field is small enough.     

Versatility of potential biomedical use of functional polysuccinates

Polysuccinates with pendant allyl groups (PSAGE) were synthesized by melt copolymerization of succinic anhydride with allyl glycidyl ether and eventually other glycidyl ethers. It was found that PSAGE could be crosslinked by radical copolymerization with methyl methacrylate. Oxidized PSAGE considered as multifunctional epoxy resin was cured with use of glutaric anhydride to form solid material susceptible to hydrolytic degradation to water-soluble non-toxic products. Comb-like amphiphilic polysuccinates containing both pendant poly(oxyethylene) chains and epoxy groups have been synthesized as well and checked for their solubility in water. Properties of PSAGE-type polymers suggests their potential use as biomaterials and polymeric drug carries. Please note, in the print publication of D. Theis, T. Schmidt, K.-F. Arndt, Macromol. Symp. 210 (2004), 465, erroneously the DOI 10.1002/masy.200450651 is repeated. There, the DOI should read: 10.1002/masy.200450652