Electrical Double Layer on Liquid Sn–Ga Alloy in Aqueous Solutions

Double-layer parameters of a liquid Sn–Ga electrode in aqueous electrolyte solutions are studied. It is shown that Sn in the alloy with Ga is a surface-active component and is forced out onto a surface layer of the electrode. The double-layer parameters of an Sn–Ga electrode (8 at. % Sn), which are measured in the experimentally accessible range of charges, differ radically from the parameters of Ga electrodes and are close to those of Sn electrode. Hence, an Sn–Ga electrode containing 8 at. % Sn simulates electrochemical properties of a liquid Sn electrode. The difference between reciprocal electronic capacitances of Hg and Sn and a corrected electrochemical work function of Sn are determined. It is shown that the chemisorption interaction of an Sn–Ga electrode with water molecules is virtually absent at charges more negative than –7 C/cm². A potential drop on uncharged Sn, which is associated with water chemisorption, is –20 mV. Thus, the hydrophilicity of Sn is slightly higher than that of Hg, Bi–Ga, Pb–Ga, and Tl–Ga and significantly lower than that of In–Ga, Cd–Ga, and Ga.     

烷烃电离能和生成焓的相关性

根据化合物形成过程中价电子能量变化与生成焓之间的关系, 推导出烷烃的生成焓和电离能之间的关系. 以21个烷烃化合物为模型将实验测定的电离能与标准生成焓进行直接关联, 证实了模型方程的适用性, 所得回归方程的相关系数达到0.9999, 估算值与实验值之间的标准偏差仅为0.03 eV. 同时还利用实验测定的标准生成焓对一系列烷烃的电离能作了预测.     

Initial anticrossing between Stark manifold <Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis> and <Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis>+1 in Na

We present the theoretical results for the positions and widths of the initial anticrossing between Stark manifold n and n + 1 in sodium, obtained by using the method of diagonalization in which zero-field wave functions are chosen from a kind of atomic potential model. These results can provide the quantitative information for understanding the microwave ionization process, whose rate-limiting step is probably the n to n + 1 transition performed at the first crossing between the outermost states of these two manifolds.     

面心立方C60表面过程的计算机模拟

近年来发现的C60及其金属掺杂化合物形成一个新的材料族，其半导体性质、超导性质及非线性光学性质已受到广泛注意，但目前对这类材料的表面性质尚缺乏研究，我们曾采用参数化的Lenard－Jones6－12模型函数比较不同晶型C6o的相对稳定性　[1]，预测面心立方C60（FccC60）的声子散射频率和态密度[2]，并计算其表面能[3]，取得有意义的结果，表明这一简单模型势能函数是C60分子间有效范德华作用的一种合理抽提．本工作进一步将该势能函数应用于研究fccC60表面吸附分子的迁移机理，并用蒙特卡罗方法模拟fcC（110）及（100）晶面的熔化过程，…     

镍电极开路电位测定微量硼氢根离子

实验采用循环伏安法，用镍电极代替铂铑等贵金属电极测定了碱性体系中不同硼氢根离子浓度下的开路电位，得出了研究电极的开路电位（-0．355～-0．280vs.SCE／V）与微量硼氢根离子浓度的对应关系，并用于监测电解偏硼酸钠制备硼氢化钠体系中微量硼氢根离子，同时计算了该方法的误差。结果表明，测量结果的相对标准偏差为2．2％；回收率为98．4％。该法简单、快速，可测定10^-5～10^-3mol／L范围的硼氢根离子浓度。     

Complete basis set ab initio computational study of ionization potential, electron affinity and the C-F bond dissociation energy for perfluorinated methane derivatives

A computational study of perfluorinated methane derivatives was performed with complete basis set ab initio methods. The total energies for their neutral, cation, and anionic states were computed. From these values, the energy gaps between different electronic states, ionization potentials, electron affinities, and C-F bond dissociation energies were calculated. The computed values are compared with experimental data and the reliability of complete basis set ab initio methods is discussed. New values for C-F bond dissociation energies are suggested. Received: 12 January 1998 / Accepted: 2 April 1998 / Published online: 29 July 1998     

Influence of nanoporous carbon electrode thickness on the electrochemical characteristics of a nanoporous carbon|tetraethylammonium tetrafluoroborate in acetonitrile solution interface

Electrochemical characteristics for the nanoporous carbon|Et₄NBF₄+acetonitrile interface have been studied by cyclic voltammetry and impedance spectroscopy methods. The influence of the electrolyte concentration and thickness of the nanoporous electrode material on the shape of the cyclic voltammetry and impedance curves has been established and the reasons for these phenomena are discussed. A value of zero charge potential, depending slightly on the structure and concentration of the electrolyte, the region of ideal polarizability and other characteristics have been established. The nanoporous nature of the carbon electrodes introduces a distribution of resistive and capacitive elements, giving rise to complicated electrochemical behaviour. Analysis of the complex plane plots shows that the nanoporous carbon|Et₄NBF₄+acetonitrile electrolyte interface can be simulated by an equivalent circuit, in which two parallel conduction paths in the solid and liquid phases are interconnected by the double-layer capacitance in parallel with the complex admittance of the hindered reaction of the charge transfer or of the partial charge transfer (i.e. adsorption stage limited) process. The values of the characteristic frequency depend on the electrolyte concentration and electrode potential, i.e. on the nature of the ions adsorbed at the surface of the nanoporous carbon electrode. The value of the solid state phase resistance established is independent of the thickness of the electrode material.     

Net information measures for modified Yukawa and Hulthén potentials

The dimensional analyses of the position and momentum variances‐based quantum mechanical Heisenberg uncertainty measure, as well as the entropic information measures given by the Shannon information entropy sum and the product of Fisher information measures are carried out for two widely used nonrelativistic isotropic exponential‐cosine screened Coulomb potentials generated by multiplying the superpositions of (i) Yukawa‐like, ?Z(e^?μr/r), and (ii) Hulthén‐like, ?Zμ(1/(e^μr ? 1)), potentials by cos(bμr) followed by addition of the term a/r², where a and b ≥ 0, μ are the screening parameters and Z, in case of atoms, denotes the nuclear charge. Under the spherical symmetry, all the information measures considered are shown to be independent of the scaling of the set [μ, Z] at a fixed value of μ/Z, a, and b and the other parameters defining the superpositions of the potentials. Numerical results are presented, which support the validity of the scaling properties. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2007     

Quantitative Correlations for the Estimation of Thermodynamic and Molecular Properties of Pyridines and 2,2′-Bipyridyines

Standard heats of formation, entropies, ionization potentials, and molecular dipole moments of a series of pyridines have been calculated by MNDO, AM1 and PM3 methods. Linear relationship have been established which permit a priori estimation of thermodynamic and molecular characteristics of pyridines. Correlation have been found between the values of pK_a for 2,2′-bipyridines for aqueous solutions and their gas phase proton affinities.__________Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 3, 391–402, March, 2005.     

Electrokinetic investigations of charged porous membranes

Asymmetric ultrafiltration membranes were prepared from fully aromatic polyamides differing in the diamine monomers of the polymeric backbone and from polysulfone. Nanofiltration membranes were made from polysulfone and polyethersulfone. The polysulfone as well as the polyethersulfone were chemically modified to change the surface charges of the membranes that were made from these polymers. This means neutral, positively as well as negatively charged membranes could be employed for the measurements. The surface properties of the membranes as a function of pH were determined by measuring the streaming potential in a perpendicular and horizontal mode. Applying proteins the values of the streaming potential changed depending on the original charges of the membranes as well as on the pH of the solution. The values shifted to either higher or lower absolute values. Thus, characterization of unused and used membranes can be carried out by electrokinetic measurements. This was also demonstrated using a membrane fitted out with invertase. The zeta potential of nanofiltration membranes, however, was only evaluated from the results obtained with the horizontally run cell.