Effect of glass bead packing on the fibrillation of liquid‐crystalline polymer in polycarbonate

Polycarbonate (PC) was melt blended with small amount of liquid‐crystalline polymer (LCP) and various contents of glass beads (GB) having different diameters. The rheological measurements indicated that the GB addition increased the viscosity ratio and seemed unfavorable to the LCP fibrillation. However, the morphological observation showed that the LCP fibrillation was promoted by the GB addition and varied with the GB packing. With the increased GB packing by increasing the GB content and/or decreasing the GB diameter, LCP deformed from spheres and ellipsoids into stretched ellipsoids at lower shear rates and into long fibrils at higher shear rates. Although higher content of smaller GB jammed into the larger LCP droplets and inhibited the LCP fibrillation, very long LCP fibrils formed at higher shear rates at a high enough packing of GB. The relationship between GB packing and LCP fibrillation revealed two kinds of hydrodynamic effects of GB promoting the LCP fibrillation: at lower GB packing, the shear flow was enhanced by the high local shear between GB, in quantity; and for a high enough GB packing, the shear flow was changed, in quality, into elongational flow, which was more effective for the LCP fibrillation. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 44: 1020–1030, 2006     

Superposition-model investigations of the zero-field splittings and their stress and temperature dependence for Mn in guanidinium aluminum sulfate hexahydrate

The zero-field splittings of sites I and II for Mn²⁺ in guanidinium aluminum sulfate hexahydrate (GASH) are calculated from the superposition model by using the normal intrinsic parameter ₂(R₀) obtained from Mn²⁺ ions in many oxygen octahedra. The results are in good agreement with the experimental findings. Based on this, the local compressibilities and local thermal expansion coefficients in the vicinity of the impurity ion Mn²⁺ have been studied from the stress and temperature dependence of zero-field splitting and are found to be half of the host ones. The reasonableness of these local values is discussed.     

Effective potential for local composite operators and the problem of factorization of multi-field condensates

A new formulation of effective potential for local composite operators is given. The two-fermion condensate \(\langle \bar \Psi \Psi \rangle \) and four-fermion condensate \(\langle \bar \Psi \Psi \bar \Psi \Psi \rangle \) are calculated simultaneously in the Gross-Neveu model up to next-to-the-leading order in 1/N expansion. It is shown that factorization \(\langle \bar \Psi \Psi \bar \Psi \Psi \rangle = C_1 \langle \bar \Psi \Psi \rangle ^2 \) holds only in theN→∞ limit and the non-factorized part of \(\langle \bar \Psi \Psi \bar \Psi \Psi \rangle \) contributed by the order-1/N terms is comparable to \(C_1 \langle \bar \Psi \Psi \rangle ^2 \) when takingN=3.     

非线性光学材料──水草酸铵

一水草酸铵（简称ＡＯＭ）是一种优良的电光晶体￣［１］。文献￣［１，２］报道了该晶体的晶体结构，化学式为（ＮＨ＿４）＿２Ｃ＿２Ｏ＿２·Ｈ＿２Ｏ，属正交晶系，Ｐ２２２空间群，晶胞参数ａ＝０．８０３５ｎｍ，ｂ＝１。０３１ｎｍ，ｃ＝０．３８０１ｎｍ，ｚ＝２。本文拟报道ＡＯＭ单晶生长，热化学分析，透过波段以及非线性光学性质的初步研究。     

Indirect laser photoacoustic detection for trace samples on membranes

An indirect laser photoacoustic technique is described. The basic principle, the experimental set-up and the influencing factors are discussed in detail. This method was used to quantify phenylamine, arginine and methylene blue on membranes. The linear ranges of the calibration curve are up to two orders of magnitude. With 1 microliter of sample solution, the detection limits are 0.25, 1.52 and 0.14 pmol for phenylamine, arginine and methylene blue, respectively.     

Molar conductivity calculation of Li-ion battery electrolyte based on mode coupling theory

A method is proposed to calculate molar conductivity based on mode coupling theory in which the ion transference number is introduced into the theory. The molar conductivities of LiPF6, LiClO4, LiBF4, LiAsF6 in PC (propylene carbonate) are calculated based on this method. The results fit well to the literature data. This presents a potential way to calculate the conductivities of Li-ion battery electrolytes.