Recent advances in olefin polymerization

Various metallocenes were tested for syndiotactic polymerization of propylene. Reduction in the amount of costly methylalumoxane (MAO) or replacement with the other components was accomplished. Small modifications in the metallocene ligands brought about remarkable differences in the resulting catalysts concerning their storage stability, H₂ response as well as stereo-specificity. Syndiotactic polypropylene (SPP) in the melt state behaves very differently compared to isotactic polypropylene (IPP). The notion that these polymers have different distributions of molecular entanglements are pursued, and verified for the first time. Excellent dispersibility of other olefin polymers in SPP matrix contributed to improve the usefulness of SPP.     

Ising spin orders and magnetic interactions analyzed in phason space in a 2-dimensional Penrose lattice

Simulated annealing calculations were performed on a Penrose lattice with the aim of clarifying the relation between the interaction connections and the magnetic orders in the phason space. Alternating signs were assumed in the magnetic interactions up to the second shortest distances between spins. Two different types of long-range antiferromagnetic orders were found for two cases with reversed sign of the interactions. The two types of order were most adequately interpreted as the orders of subdivisions in the occupation domain in the phason space. Reasonable interpretations of the mechanism of the subdivisions are given on the basis of the physical interactions projected to the phason space.     

Enhanced intra-aggregate charge separation from binary excitons in mixed J-aggregates of cyanine dyes

Well-ordered, two-dimensional, amalgamation-type J-aggregates consisting of two different kinds of structurally analogous anionic cyanine dyes were self-assembled on an amino-functionalized Au(111) electrode surface. Similar binary J-aggregates, though considerably less ordered in either one- or three-dimensional structure, could also be grown easily in a concentrated ( approximately 1.5 M) aqueous solution of NaCl. These binary J-aggregates are characterized by a singly peaked J-band associated with a unique molecular exciton shared by the two different dye components coherently. This cooperative binary excitonic state can live with substantial (more than 0.1 eV) energy gaps between the HOMO (highest occupied molecular orbital) and LUMO (lowest unoccupied molecular orbital) levels of the two dyes mixed together. These energy gaps allow the binary exciton to relax very rapidly to an intra-aggregate charge-separated state in good competition with the metal-induced quenching of the excited-state energy. The enhanced charge separation leads to a high-efficiency photocurrent generation with a simple binary J-aggregate-coated Au(111) electrode in a reversible redox solution and results in strong quenching of the fluorescence from the corresponding aggregate grown in solution free from substrate-induced quenching.     

Thermodynamik von Einzelschichten von Mehrfachkomponenten

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Gemischte Einzelschichten von Cholesterin mit Fetts?uren

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Spectrophotometric determination of vanadium in natural waters and rocks after selective adsorption on sephadex gel

Vanadium(V) ions are strongly adsorbed on Sephadex G-25 gel at pH 4.2, and are desorbed reversibly into 0.1 M acids. Vanadium present in rocks and in natural waters at μg l⁻¹ levels can be separated and concentrated by means of a gel column at pH 6 (in order to avoid the interference of molybdenum(VI)) and determined spectrophotometrically with 4-(2-pyridylazo)resorcinol. Interference by iron(III) can be suppressed by adding copper(II)—CyDTA. Large amounts of sodium chloride and potassium nitrate have little effect on the adsorption.     

Adsorption of dioctyldimethylammonium chloride at water/hexane interface

The adsorption behavior of dioctyldimethylammonium chloride at water/ hexane interface has been studied by measuring the interfacial tension as a function of temperature and pressure at various bulk concentrations. By applying the thermodynamics of adsorption at interfaces to the experimental results, the thermodynamic quantity changes associated with adsorption and the interfacial density of dioctyldimethylammonium chloride have been evaluated.The interfacial tension vs temperature and concentration curves have shown the breaks and it has been concluded that the first order phase transition takes place between a gaseous and an expanded state. The entropy and volume changes associated with adsorption have shown the remarkable dependence on temperature and pressure and have been found to decrease with increasing the molality. Also the energy change associated with adsorption has been evaluated and it has been concluded that the adsorption of dioctyldimethylammonium chloride at water/hexane interface is enhanced by negative values of the partial molar energy change. Further, all the thermodynamic quantities have been characterized by the discontinuous change attributable to the phase transition.