Photoemission and coincidence studies on gas-phase molecules

This article describes Young’s double-slit experiment using high-energy core-level photoemission from N₂ molecules and experimental identification of interatomic Coulombic decay in Ar₂ dimers after Auger decay using k-resolved electron–ion–ion coincidence spectroscopy, aiming to illustrate the leading edge of gas-phase experiments using synchrotron radiation.     

Transmission Bandwidth Expansion of SI-POF Using WDM-Pulse-Position Modulations

WDM-Pulse-position modulation technique in SI-POF transmission is proposed to overcome the limitation from mode dispersion. It can expand the flat transmission bandwidth to 80MHz with 100m-fiber length.     

Liquid-crystalline stereoregular polyketone prepared from a mesogenic vinylarene and carbon monoxide

Isotactic and syndiotactic polyketones were synthesized by the alternating copolymerizations of a mesogenic vinylarene, 4-cyano-4′-[8-(4-vinylphenyl)octyl-1-oxy]biphenyl, with carbon monoxide, and this revealed the influence of backbone tacticity on their thermal properties. The isotactic polyketone was an amorphous polymer that did not show any mesophase, whereas the syndiotactic polyketone exhibited liquid crystallinity. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 41: 3556–3563, 2003     

The effects of substructure on fatigue crack propagation

The correlation between the initiation and propagation of fatigue cracks and the substructure formation was examined using aluminium specimens. The effects of substructures introduced by static and alternating stresses and those of the recovery of the substructure on the propagation rates of fatigue cracks were also studied. Observations of the substructures were made by means of the X-ray micro-beam technique. The principal results obtained are as follows:

1. At the time of fatigue crack initiation a definite substructure develops at the root of a notch made on the specimen edge.
2. The rate of fatigue crack propagation has a relation to the characteristics of the substructures at the tip of the fatigue cracks.
3. While the rates of propagation are retarded by static pre-strains, they increase in proportion to the degree of substructure formation due to alternating stresses.
4. The rates are usually reduced by the recovery after alternating deformation.

On the basis of the above results, the significance of substructures for fatigue fracture is discussed.     

Nucleophilic cleavages of esters and ethers with phenyltellurotrimethylsilane

The title tellurosilane $\text{1}$ reacted with esters and ethers in the presence of catalytic zinc iodide under very mild conditions, giving the corresponding products with C-telluration and O-silylation via nucleophilic cleavages of the CO bonds.