Zur Erniedrigung des Sättigungsmoments von Nickel durch chemisorbierten Wasserstoff

The decrease of the magnetic saturation moment of superparamagnetic nickel particles of 30 Å radius by hydrogenation was investigated, and proved to be?=0.72 Bohr magnetons per hydrogen atom chemisorbed. This is the same amount that has been reported byDietz andSelwood for 64 Å particles. From this the conclusion may be drawn that most probably the effect does not depend on particle size. Interpreting the result in Pauling’s model of the covalent bond, one may conclude the Ni-H-chemisorption bond to have about 14% ionic character. This seems reasonable in view of the difference in electronegativity between hydrogen and nickel surface, but one of the assumptions of the model seems to be not safely fulfilled as will be discussed. On the other hand one may conceive chemisorption to be the first step towards formation of nickel hydride at the particle surface. Doing so, the comparison of the found result for? with recent experiments on thick nickel films electrolytically loaded with hydrogen yields a satisfactory result.     

Cu(II) Sorption Mechanism on Montmorillonite: An Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Study

The mass of gamma-globulin fouling an Anodisc alumina membrane with a nominal pore diameter of 0.1 μm has been measured at several concentrations and pHs. This fouling resulted from filtering through the membrane in a continuous recirculation device. The low-concentration fouling can be attributed mainly to adsorption. The complete concentration dependence of fouling mass has been obtained and fitted to a Freundlich heterogeneous isotherm, from which the pH dependence of active fouling sites and energies has been also obtained. Adsorption is studied as a function of the electrostatic forces between the solute and the membrane. A sharp maximum in the adsorbed mass for zero electrostatic force is observed. At high concentrations, accumulation plays a relevant role at alkaline pH, as confirmed by flux decay experiments, retention measurements, and AFM (atomic force microscopy) pictures. Copyright 2000 Academic Press.     

Formation of hierarchical ZnO nanostructures “nanocombs”: Growth mechanism, structural and optical properties

ZnO nanocombs have been fabricated in high yield via a thermal evaporation process on Si(1 1 1) substrate by using metallic zinc powder and oxygen as source materials for zinc and oxygen, respectively, without the use of catalyst or additives at low-temperature. Morphological investigations revealed that the nanocombs were grown in high density over the whole substrate surface. The branches (teeth) of the nanocombs are uniform and nicely attached along one side of the ribbon-like stem and are arranged in a proper manner. X-ray diffraction patterns confirmed that the grown nanostructures were single-crystalline and possessed a wurtzite hexagonal phase. Room-temperature photoluminescence (PL) spectrum of the grown nanostructures is exhibit a dominant, sharp and strong UV emission with a suppressed deep-level emission indicating good crystallinity and optical properties for the as-grown ZnO nanocombs.     

On MSSM charged Higgs-boson production in association with an electroweak W boson at electron–positron colliders

We present a calculation of the cross section for the process e⁺e^-→W^±H^∓ in the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) and the two Higgs doublet model (THDM). We study the basic features of the MSSM prediction for some distinctive parameter scenarios. We find large effects from virtual third-generation squarks for scenarios with large mixing, which can lead to a cross section vastly different from a THDM with identical Higgs sector parameters. We investigate this interesting behaviour in more detail by thoroughly scanning the MSSM parameter space for regions of large cross section. For a charged Higgs boson too heavy to be pair produced at a future high-energy electron–positron collider it turns out that a large MSSM cross section with a good chance of observation is linked to a squark mass scale below 600 GeV and a considerable amount of mixing in either the stop and sbottom sector.     

Properties of nanoparticles generated during femtosecond laser machining in air and water

Femtosecond laser ablation is used to generate nanoparticle aerosols and colloids from solid targets of various materials (Ti, Ag, Au, Co, etc.) in air and water ambience. We determine the influence of different laser parameters (pulse energy, pulse overlap) and properties of media (air, airbrush, water) on the rate of production and size distribution of the laser-generated nanoparticles. It is shown that the pulse overlap and laser fluence are the parameters determining the nanoparticle size. At optimum conditions the nanoparticle productivity can be increased by 150–300%. The generation of multimaterial nanoparticle dispersions is demonstrated. Being free of toxic impurities, the laser-produced nanoparticles may be promising for biomedical applications. PACS 79.20.Ds; 81.16.Mk; 81.16.-c; 52.38.Ph; 06.60.Jn     

Aminyloxide (nitroxide)—XXIV: Empirische ermittlung der spindichteverteilung in aminyloxiden

¹⁷O-Labelled aminyloxides 1–8 (dialkyl-, alkylaryl-, diaryl-, acylaminyloxides and amidinyloxides) have been prepared by various methods. The ESR spectra of 1a and 4 have been measured in various solvents, showing a very good correlation between a^N respectively a^O and the E_T-values of solvents. From the solvent-dependence of the coupling constants of 1a Q-values have been evaluated for the simplified equation aⁱ = Q_iiⁱ × pⁱ (Q_NN^N = 33.1 G; Q_oo^o = 35.3 G). These values were used to calculate the spin density ?^N and ?^o of the aminyloxides 1–8. The Q-values are shown to be reasonable by summation of the spin density of all positions for the radicals 4–7. which gives one with only small deviations. In most of these radicals in which the unpaired electron is delocalized into the conjugated π-system ?^N is reduced significantly, as compared to dialkyl-ammyloxides, whereas ?⁰ is only lowered to a small extent.     

On the Present Status of the Problem of Charge Dependence and Charge Asymmetry of the Nucleon-Nucleon Force

The charge dependence of the nucleon-nucleon force can be derived from the low-energy scattering parameters. The p-p and n-p parameters were measured in direct scattering experiments. The n-n parameters a_nn = (-16.70 ± 0.38) fm and r_nn = (2.78 ± 0.13) fm have been determined from few particle reactions. The difference of the scattering lengths (a_nn - a_nn) ≈ 7 fm demonstrates the violation of the charge independence. Information on the charge symmetry is still doubtful due to the inaccuracy of the charge correction for the p-p parameters. Whereas the n-n and the charge corrected p-p parameters known at present yield a weaker n-n force than the p-p force, the opposite result follows from the binding energy difference for ³He and ³H and the meson theory of the nuclear forces.