Effect of microcrystalline and microfibrillated cellulose on the evolution of hydration of cement pastes by thermogravimetry

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - The interest in the use of cellulose fibers of increasingly smaller sizes in cementitious materials has increased in recent years. This paper brings...     

Multiscale Approach to the Study of the Electronic Properties of Two Thiophene Curcuminoid Molecules

We studied the electronic and conductance properties of two thiophene–curcuminoid molecules, 2‐thphCCM ( 1 ) and 3‐thphCCM ( 2 ), in which the only structural difference is the position of the sulfur atoms in the thiophene terminal groups. We used electrochemical techniques as well as UV/Vis absorption studies to obtain the values of the HOMO–LUMO band gap energies, showing that molecule 1 has lower values than 2 . Theoretical calculations show the same trend. Self‐assembled monolayers (SAMs) of these molecules were studied by using electrochemistry, showing that the interaction with gold reduces drastically the HOMO–LUMO gap in both molecules to almost the same value. Single‐molecule conductance measurements show that molecule 2 has two different conductance values, whereas molecule 1 exhibits only one. Based on theoretical calculations, we conclude that the lowest conductance value, similar in both molecules, corresponds to a van der Waals interaction between the thiophene ring and the electrodes. The one order of magnitude higher conductance value for molecule 2 corresponds to a coordinate (dative covalent) interaction between the sulfur atoms and the gold electrodes.     

Quasi-K-Cosymplectic submersions

In this paper we study the Riemannian submersions between manifolds belonging to those classes of almost contact metric manifolds which can be assembled under the common denomination of quasi-K-cosymplectic manifolds.     

Automatic reduction and evaluation of infrared and Raman spectra

Summary The automatic interpretation of digital recorded infrared and Raman spectra is described. The procedure starts with the automatic correction for an approximated base line. In the case of Raman spectra the spectral response of the spectrometer is corrected, too. Subsequently, the spectra are reduced to band lists, conserving the position, intensity and half-widths of the bands. These band lists are the input in an interpretation algorithm for the combined evaluation of infrared and Raman spectra by testing presence or absence of characteristic bands or groups of bands. The algorithm was tested with 300 substances. A balance of the interpretation results shows that the abscence of structural elements is found more safely than the presence. The algorithm may be modified for special purposes: evaluation of infrared or Raman spectra alone or application to special classes of substances.

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Automatische Reduktion und Auswertung von IR- und Raman-SpektrenI. Interpretation charakteristischer Banden

Zusammenfassung Ziel dieser Arbeit ist die automatische Interpretation von Infrarot- und Raman-Spektren mit Hilfe charakteristischer Banden. Die Bearbeitung der Spektren beginnt mit der Korrektur der digital registrierten Spektren auf eine angenÄherte Grundlinie. Bei Raman-Spektren wird zusÄtzlich die spektrale Empfindlichkeit des Spektrometers korrigiert. Die Spektren werden auf Bandenlisten reduziert, in denen die Lage, IntensitÄt und Halbwertsbreite der einzelnen Banden enthalten sind. Diese Bandenlisten dienen als Eingabe in einen Interpretationsalgorithmus mit dem durch Prüfung der Lage und IntensitÄt einzelner charakteristischer Banden und Bandengruppen auf Anwesenheit oder Abwesenheit von Strukturmerkmalen geschlossen wird. Der Algorithmus wurde an 300 Substanzen getestet. Die Aussage über das Fehlen bestimmter Gruppen ist sicherer als die über deren Vorhandensein. Die Struktur des Auswertealgorithmus erlaubt ein einfaches Anpassen an verschiedene Anwendungsgebiete: Auswertung von Infrarot-oder Raman-Spektrum allein, bzw. Anwendung bei speziellen Substanzklassen.

     

Measurement of the generalized polarizabilities of the proton in virtual Compton scattering at Q2=0.92 and 1.76 GeV2

We report a virtual Compton scattering study of the proton at low c.m. energies. We have determined the structure functions P(LL)-P(TT)/epsilon and P(LT), and the electric and magnetic generalized polarizabilities (GPs) alpha(E)(Q2) and beta(M)(Q2) at momentum transfer Q(2)=0.92 and 1.76 GeV2. The electric GP shows a strong falloff with Q2, and its global behavior does not follow a simple dipole form. The magnetic GP shows a rise and then a falloff; this can be interpreted as the dominance of a long-distance diamagnetic pion cloud at low Q2, compensated at higher Q2 by a paramagnetic contribution from piN intermediate states.