The electrorheological efficiency of polyaniline particles with various conductivities suspended in silicone oil

Electrorheological (ER) behavior of silicone oil suspensions of particles of polyaniline protonated to various doping levels with ortho-phosphoric and tetrafluoroboric acids has been studied. The dynamic yield stress obtained by extrapolation of shear stress to zero shear rate using Herschel–Bulkley equation was used as a criterion of the ER efficiency. At a same molar concentration of doping acids, various protonation effects appeared and the dependences of the yield stress on the acid concentration differed. The comparison of the yield stresses with dielectric characteristics calculated from the Havriliak–Negami equation revealed that the particle conductivity, in contrast to particle permittivity, dominates the polarization process especially at higher protonation degrees. Consequently, particle conductivity or dielectric relaxation time proved to be the parameters providing the common dependences of the yield stress regardless of the way of polarization.     

Isothermal (vapour + liquid) equilibria in the binary and ternary systems composed of 2-propanol, 2,2,4-trimethylpentane,and 2,4-dimethyl-3-pentanone

(Vapour + liquid) equilibrium data in the three binary (2-propanol + 2,2,4-trimethylpentane), (2-propanol + 2,4-dimethyl-3-pentanone), (2,2,4-trimethylpentane + 2,4-dimethyl-3-pentanone) systems, and in the ternary (2-propanol + 2,2,4-trimethylpentane + 2,4-dimethyl-3-pentanone) system are reported. The data were measured isothermally at (330.00 and 340.00) K covering the pressure range (8 to 70) kPa. The binary (vapour + liquid) equilibrium data were correlated using the Wilson and NRTL equations by means of a robust algorithm for processing all isotherms together; resulting parameters were then used for calculation of phase behaviour in the ternary system and for subsequent comparison with experimental data. Azeotropic behaviour of the (2-propanol + 2,2,4-trimethylpentane) system was evaluated together with all available published data.     

Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometric (ICP/MS) Determination of Thallium in Soils and Winter Rapeseeds

Abstract

The ICP/MS method with lutetium, bismuth and indium as internal standards was used for the determination of thallium and other elements, i.e. Ti, V, Cr, Ni, Cu, Zn, Rb, Mo, Cd, As and Pb, in soils and rapeseeds. Samples were collected in two thallium highly pedogeochemicaily contaminated areas situated in South Bohemia and in Czech-Moravian Highlands, in two river alluvia, in two control sites with low levels of TI and in one spot with anthropogenic contamination. Levels higher than 2.5 mg kg^?1 have been found in rapeseeds in the highly polluted areas (c. 2.8 mg kg^?1 in soils). High correlation coefficients, r > 0.81, between content of TI in top- and sub-soils and rapeseeds were obtained. Thallium concentrations exceed twice of Pb content and by one order of magnitude of Cd amounts. This finding are very important because of the high toxicity of TI and the absence of threshold limits for TI in soils, agricultural products and foodstuffs in the Czech Republic.     

Chromatic monitoring of downstream microwave plasma source

The application of the chromatic sensing for monitoring of a microwave plasma source is described. The emitted radiation from the plasma excited in the argon, oxygen and CF₄ mixture was measured with three PIN-diodes with integrated optical filters. The response of the chromatic signals on variation of power and gas composition was investigated. Whereas a good sensitivity of the integrated optical signal to the power was confirmed, only a limited sensitivity to the working gas mixture was found.     

Electrorheological properties of hydrolyzed poly(glycidyl methacrylate) suspensions

 Electrorheological behavior of silicone oil suspensions of macroporous poly[(glycidyl methacrylate)-co-(ethylene dimethacrylate)]) (0.60 : 0.40 w) hydrolyzed to various degrees was investigated. Polarizability of particles expressed by the particle dipole coefficient and, consequently, pseudoplasticity of the system at low shear rates after application of an external electric field steeply increased with the hydrolysis degree of the copolymer. As the size and shape of particles remain unchanged during hydrolysis, a series of model suspensions with the same hydrodynamic properties (Newtonian or slightly pseudoplastic when no electric field was applied) but with different intensity of the electrorheological effect could be prepared. Under these conditions, the use of Mason number failed to correlate the apparent viscosity of suspensions of particles with different polarizability in the electric field. On the other hand, when polarizability of particles of a suspension system changes due to a higher temperature, a single curve in the plot of apparent viscosity vs. the Mason number could be obtained. Received: 17 February 1998 Accepted: 8 May 1998     

Electrorheological properties of suspensions of hollow globular titanium oxide/polypyrrole particles

Hollow globular clusters of titanium oxide (TiO₂) nanoparticles were synthesized by a simple hydrothermal method. The prepared particles were consequently coated by in situ polymerization of conductive polymer polypyrrole (PPy) to obtain novel core–shell structured particles as a dispersed phase in electrorheological (ER) suspensions. The X-ray diffraction analysis and scanning electron microscopy provided information on particle composition and morphology. It appeared that PPy coating improved the compatibility of dispersed particles with silicone oil which results in higher sedimentation stability compared to that of mere TiO₂ particles-based ER suspension. The ER properties were investigated under both steady and oscillatory shears. It was found that TiO₂/PPy particles-based suspension showed higher ER activity than that of mere TiO₂ hollow globular clusters. These observations were elucidated well in view of their dielectric spectra analysis; a larger dielectric loss enhancement and faster interfacial polarization were responsible for a higher ER activity of core–shell structured TiO₂/PPy-based suspensions. Investigation of changes in ER properties of prepared suspensions as a function of particles concentration, viscosity of silicone oil used as a suspension medium, and electric field strength applied was also performed.     

Electrochemical behavior of anthraquinone- and nitrophenyl-labeled deoxynucleoside triphosphates: a contribution to development of multipotential redox labeling of DNA

Monatshefte für Chemie - Chemical Monthly - Electrochemical properties of base-modified cytosine or 7-deazaadenine nucleoside triphosphates (dNTPs) bearing electrochemically active...     

Enantiomeric purity control of <Emphasis Type="Italic">R</Emphasis>-cinacalcet in pharmaceutical product by capillary electrophoresis

The capillary zone electrophoresis method was developed for the chiral separation of R,S-cinacalcet. Cyclodextrins with different substituents were tested in both acidic and alkaline background electrolytes. The non-ionic cyclodextrin, 2-hydroxypropyl-γ-cyclodextrin, was selected as the best chiral selector. The separation was performed using a positive voltage in a phosphate buffer at pH 2.5. The analytes studied were separated within 12 min. The proposed method was applied to the analysis of tablets containing R-cinalcalcet as the active substance. The enantiopurity of R-cinacalcet in the tablets studied was confirmed. Subsequently, the analysis of tablets spiked with S-cinacalcet (chiral impurity) was also performed. The method here presented makes possible the determination of 0.1 % of S-cinacalcet in tablets. The analytical characteristics of the method, such as linearity, recovery and RSD values of the peak area and the migration time, were evaluated. The inter-day RSD values of the peak area and the migration time were lower than 3.71 % and 1.3 %, respectively.