Polymerization kinetics of phosphonic acids and esters using an iodonium initiator

Phosphonic acids are known to be useful monomers in dental restorative materials because of their good potential to provide enhanced adhesion to hydroxyapatite and their high hydrolytic stability. In this study, the photopolymerization of phosphonic acid‐based monomer via the camphorquinone (CQ)/ethyl‐4‐(dimethylaminobenzoate) (EDAB) photoredox system is compared with a ternary system composed of iodonium hexafluorophosphate and CQ/EDAB. Photocalorimetry shows that the ternary system does not provide a significant acceleration of the polymerization with either acrylamide or methacrylate phosphonic acids. The complexation of the iodonium by the phosphonic moiety of the acidic monomers leads to a lowered iodonium reactivity and reduced polarizability of the medium and as a consequence limits the rate enhancement effect normally observed by phosphonic acids on the polymerization rate. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2013 , 51, 5046–5055     

Towards the optimization of a pulsatile three-stream coaxial airblast injector

A large-scale parametric air–water test stand (AWTS) study involving more than 40 evaluations was carried out for the purposes of three-stream airblast reactor feed injector characterization and optimization; a subset of seven air stream combinations is discussed here. The role of CFD as a supplement to, or a replacement for, air–water testing is of great industrial interest. To this end a set of CFD simulations was carried out to complement the AWTS study. Pressure responses, spray opening characteristics near the feed injector face, and spray distribution were primary measures for both the AWTS and CFD programs. It was found that, over the range of variables studied, there was somewhat of a match between CFD and AWTS results. A self-exciting, pulsatile spray pattern was achieved in CFD and AWTS (frequencies between 75 and 600 Hz), and an interesting transition in spray bursting character occurred at moderate inner air flows. The oscillatory flow pattern mimics prior work in terms of the energy of the fluctuations, but the fact that the present fluctuations occur at an order of magnitude lower frequency is apparently related to the comparatively low gas/liquid momentum ratio in the current study. Overall, it is shown that the CFD method contained herein can be used to supplement, but not replace, air–water testing for said injector configuration.     

Operational theory and instrumental implementation of the thermal gradient programmed gas chromatography (TGPGC) mode of analysis

Thermal gradient programmed gas chromatography (TGPGC) separations involve the application of three-dimensional thermal field programming. The operational aspects associated with TGPGC are such that rapid GC analyses can be achieved for complex and broad-volatility-range samples using open tubular columns with high thermal compliance, physical compactness, and geometric conformity. Elapsed times for TGPGC analyses of complex samples have ranged from 50 to 300 s. The application of rapidly changing thermal fields (or temperature surfaces) in TGPGC is accomplished through the use of a column sheath assembly. Recent research has centered upon different column sheath assembly designs and instrumental implementation of the TGPGC mode of operation. The instrumental implementation of the TGPGC mode for conducting GC and GC-MS analyses places special demands upon the design and performance of numerous operational aspects of the system, e.g., the response-time characteristics associated with analyte detection and the analytical output signal handling capabilities.     

Implantation of the 111In/Cd Probe as InO− Ion for Radioisotope Tracer Studies

A radioisotope ion implanter has been developed using a cesium-sputtering, negative ion source, which offers versatility and sustained operation. Employing the molecular ¹¹¹In¹⁶O⁻ ion, μCi activities of the radioisotope probe ¹¹¹In/Cd have been implanted into different material hosts. The implanted tracer activity has been shown to be sufficient for LTNO, NMRON and PAC. A new NMRON resonance for ¹¹¹InAg was observed at 75.08 MHz. In₂O₃ powder performed well as the radioisotope carrier in the ion source, with the ratio of radioisotope and parasitic ion current being typically 4 × 10⁻⁴.     

Index growth of hypersurfaces with constant mean curvature

In this paper we give the precise index growth for the embedded hypersurfaces of revolution with constant mean curvature (cmc) 1 in (Delaunay unduloids). When n=3, using the asymptotics result of Korevaar, Kusner and Solomon, we derive an explicit asymptotic index growth rate for finite topology cmc 1 surfaces with properly embedded ends. Similar results are obtained for hypersurfaces with cmc bigger than 1 in hyperbolic space. Received: 6 July 2000; in final form: 10 September 2000 / Published online: 25 June 2001     

A summation strain-gage alternative to oblique incidence in photoelastic coatings

A special strain gage (PhotoStress^® Separator Gage, Measurements Group, Inc., Raleigh, NC) designed to measure the sum (? ₁ +? ₂) of the principal strains, is used in conjunction with photoelastic-coating measurements (? ₁ -? ₂) to establish the value of each principal strain (? ₁ and? ₂). The summation strain signal is effectively independent of angular orientation (measurement direction), and by design, the gage negates soldering risks, self-heating, and localized-reinforcement considerations normally associated with strain-gage measurements on plastic parts.