Characterization of polymer-coated silica particles by microelectrophoresis

Electrophoretic mobility measurements have been used to characterize monodispersed colloidal particles of silica, silica coated with alumina (cores), of these cores incorporating a dye (pigments), and finally of pigments coated with polymers. The latter consisted of poly(divinylbenzene), of poly(vinylbenzyl chloride), and of their copolymers, synthesized directly on the core or pigment particles, with and without subsequent sulfonation.     

Ein Biprisma-Interferometer für 100 keV Elektronen und seine Anwendung

A biprism-interferometer for 100 keV electrons working with magnetic quadrupole lenses is described. With this instrument the mean inner potentials φ of Cu and Au were measured. Values of φ=(20,2± 0,7) V for Cu and φ=(16,8± 1,0) V for Au were found.     

Locally toroidal regular polytopes of rank 4

The paper studies various relationships between locally toroidal regular 4-polytopes of types {6, 3,p} and {3, 6, 3}. These relationships are based on corresponding relationships between the regular honeycombs with the same Schläfli-symbol in hyperbolic 3-space. Also the paper discusses regular tessellations (secretions of rank 3) which are locally inscribed into regular 4-polytopes. In particular, this leads to local criteria for the finiteness of the polytopes.     

Flat regular polytopes

At the centre of the theory of abstract regular polytopes lies the amalgamation problem: given two regularn-polytopesP ₁ andP ₂, when does there exist a regular (n+1)-polytopeP whose facets are isomorphic toP ₁ and whose vertex-figures are isomorphic toP ₂? The most general circumstances known hitherto which lead to a positive answer involve flat polytopes, which are such that each vertex lies in each facet. The object of this paper is to describe an analogous but wider class of constructions, which generalize the previous results.     

Interaction of nonionic dextrans with silver bromide hydrosols

Summary The effects of nonionic dextrans of different molecular weights on the stability of silver bromide solsin statu nascendi in aqueous solutions and watermethanol mixtures have been studied. Regardless of the molecular weight of the polymer no flocculation of the sol is observed. In the presence of indifferent electrolytes sols are destabilized over a given concentration range of the polymer, which depends little on the molecular weight of the latter. The concentration of the electrolytes required to cause destabilization in the presence of dextrans depends on the counterion charge (theSchulze-Hardy rule) but in each case the critical coagulation concentration is lower for the same sol than in the absence of the polymers. At still higher dextran concentrations the sols are protected toward electrolytes. In the presence of methanol more polymer and less electrolyte is needed to destabilize the sol. An explanation of these effects is offered.

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Zusammenfassung Die Effekte der nichtionogenen Dextran-Polymeren von verschiedenen Molekulargewichten auf die Stabilität von Silberbromid Solenin statu nascendi in wässerigen Lösungen und in Wasser-Methylalkohol Gemischen wurden untersucht. Die Makromoleküle allein konnten die Sole nicht koagulieren. Die Sole wurden jedoch destabilisiert in Anwesenheit von bestimmten Mengen von Polymeren wenn Neutralelektrolyte zugesetzt wurden: Die kritischen Koagulationskonzentration der Gegenionen hängt von deren Ladung ab (Schulze-Hardy Regel); jedoch in allen Fällen ist die für die Koagulation notwendige Salzmenge beträchtlich niedriger als in der Abwesenheit von Dextran in denselben Solen. Bei höheren Polymerkonzentrationen werden die Silberhalogenidsole gegen Elektrolytkoagulation geschützt. In Wassser-Alkohol Lösungen ist mehr Polymer und weniger Elektrolyt zur Koagulation der Sole notwendig. Eine Erklärung dieser Beobachtungen wurde angeboten.

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1) Supported by the NSF grant GP 42331X.

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2) A part of a Ph.D. thesis byDavid Lindsay.