FUNDAMENTALS OF TRANSMISSION FLUCTUATION SPECTROMETRY WITH VARIABLE SPATIAL AVERAGING

Transmission signal of radiation in suspension of particles performed with a high spatial and temporal resolution shows significant fluctuations,which are related to the physical properties of the particles and the process of spatial and temporal averaging.Exploiting this connection,it is possible to calculate the particle size distribution (PSD) and particle concentration.This paper provides an approach of transmission fluctuation spectrometry (TFS) with variable spatial averaging,The transmission fluctuations are expressed in terms of the expectancy of transmission square (ETS) and are obtained as a spectrum,which is a function of the variable beam diameter.The reversal point and the depth of the spectrum contain the information of particle size and particle concentration,respectively.     

XNBR/LDH nanocomposites: Effect of vulcanization and organic modifier on nanofiller dispersion and strain‐induced crystallization

In elastomer/organo clay nanocomposites, the morphological characteristics, and hence the mechanical properties, of the vulcanizates are strongly influenced by the organic modifier and the vulcanization process. When the elastomer itself undergoes strain‐induced crystallization, both the organic modifier and the dispersed filler particles could significantly influence the crystallization process. These phenomena are very common in case of natural rubber‐based vulcanizates. In this study, the similar effects have been demonstrated with carboxylated nitrile rubber (XNBR) and organically modified layered double hydroxide (O‐LDH)‐based nanocomposites. The effect of size of the organic modifier was obviously visible on the interlayer distance of O‐LDH and also on the morphological reorganization of the dispersed O‐LDH particles during vulcanization process. The strain‐induced crystallization of the XNBR was found to be strongly dependent on the morphological change that occurs during vulcanization process. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys, 2010     

Lie geometry of flat fronts in hyperbolic space

We propose a Lie geometric point of view on flat fronts in hyperbolic space as special Ω-surfaces and discuss the Lie geometric deformation of flat fronts.     

Reflection,transmission and mode conversion of plane sound waves at a plane interface between two different anisotropic solids

The boundary problem for an incident plane sound wave at a plane interface of two anisotropic solids is treated and presented in a form suitable for numerical calculations.