Submillimeter wave-guiding on thin dielectric films

The excitation and propagation of guided submillimeter waves (λ = 0.337 mm) is demonstrated on stretched, self-supporting sheets of polyethylene (PET) and polyterephthalate (PTER). Prism-film couplers serve for input and output. The PTER films show negative birefringence (n₀ = 1.76, n_e = 1.68). An attenuation of 0.25 dB/cm was measured for the TM₀ mode on a 12 μm thick PTER film.     

Ice forming activity and the surface properties of nucleating materials

Zusammenfassung Die bereits früher beschriebenen Messungen [1] der Eiskeimbildungsaktivität von Silberjodid in unterkühlten Wolken aus verschieden konzentrierten wässerigen NaCl-Lösungen ergeben zusammen mit neueren Protonspinresonanz-Untersuchungen von an eiskeimbildenden Stoffen adsorbierten Wasserschichten [5] neue Aspekte des Eiskeimbildungsmechanismus: Aus Tabelle 1 lässt sich entnehmen, dass die Aktivität weitgehend von der Wasserdampfsättigung bezüglichEis abhängt, die für das Wachsen eines Eiskeimes verantwortlich ist; von der Wasserdampfsättigung bezüglichWasser hängt hingegen die Dicke der an der eiskeimaktiven Substanz adsorbierten Wasserschicht ab, die dann ihrerseits die Wahrscheinlichkeit der Bildung von Eiskeimen beeinflussen dürfte. Die Annahme, dass die Bildung der Eiskeime in der adsorbierten Wasserchicht stattfindet, wird durch das in Figur 1 gezeigte neue Resultat des Protonspinresonanz-Experimentes an CuO gestützt, das mit Hilfe empfindlicherer Apparaturen gewonnen wurde.

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Paper presented at the International Conference on Cloud Physics, Canberra and Sydney. Australia, September 11–20, 1961.     

LC–ELISA as a contribution to the assessment of matrix effects with environmental water samples in an immunoassay for estrone (E1)

Accreditation and Quality Assurance - Estrone (E1), a metabolite of the estrogenic hormones 17β-estradiol (β-E2) and 17α-estradiol (α-E2), is itself a potent estrogen which can...     

Some Algebraic Features of Z2-graded KK-Theory

We study the relation of Z₂equivariant and Z₂graded KK-theory. The former is the universal stable, split exact and homotopy invariant theory on the category of Z₂graded C^*algebras and graded homomorphisms (Theorem 1). We obtain an abstract characterization for the product of the graded KK-functor (Theorem 2). We give generalizations to Z₂graded C^*algebras of the Universal Coefficent Theorem, Künneth Theorem and Künneth Theorem for tensor products. We prove some results about graded crossed products of Thom isomorphism and Pimsner-Voiculescu type (Theorem 3 and Corollary 2) and compute an example. We obtain a split surjective map KK(A,B) KK(A⁰,B⁰) commuting with products, where A⁰is a canonically defined trivially graded algebra for any Z₂-graded A.     

Packing density of slurry-packed capillaries at low aspect ratios

The average interparticle voidage or porosity (epsilon(inter)) in cylindrical capillaries is studied in dependence on the column diameter (d(c)) to particle diameter (d(p)) ratio for 5 < d(c)/d(p) < 50. Using optimized slurry and packing solvents, high pressure and ultrasonication, 5 mum-sized porous C18-silica particles were slurry-packed into fused-silica capillaries having ids from 30 to 250 mum. Packing densities are assessed by a polystyrene standard which is size-excluded from the intraparticle pore space of the packings. For d(c)/d(p) > 35 densely packed beds are realized (epsilon(inter) = 0.36-0.37), while for decreasing aspect ratios an exponential increase in epsilon(inter )is observed reaching epsilon(inter ) approximately 0.47 at d(c)/d(p) = 5. This behaviour is ascribed to a combination of the geometrical wall effect operating in the direct vicinity of the column wall, caused by the inability of the particles to form a dense packing against the hard surface of the column wall, and particle characteristics like the size distribution, shape and surface roughness. Results are compared with the literature data to address also the importance of absolute particle size in studying structure-transport relations in packed beds in dependence on the aspect ratio d(c)/d(p).     

Cymantrene conjugation modulates the intracellular distribution and induces high cytotoxicity of a cell-penetrating peptide

The conjugation of cymantrene CpMn(CO)(3) to cell-penetrating peptide hCT(18-32)-k7 alters the intracellular distribution in MCF-7 cells compared to the unmodified peptide, as visualized by fluorescence microscopy, and leads to an increased nuclear accumulation; the peptide and cymantrene compound themselves are not toxic, but the bioconjugate shows a significant cytotoxicity with an IC(50) value of 36 micromol l(-1).