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THEORETICAL INSIGHTS ON O2 AND CO ADSORPTION ON NEUTRAL AND POSITIVELY CHARGED GOLD CLUSTERS
2006
With the aim of understanding the elementary steps governing the oxidation of CO catalyzed by dispersed or supported gold nanoclusters, the adsorption of molecular species, such as O2 and CO, on model neutral and positively charged clusters (Au(n)(m+) n = 1, 9, and 13; m = 0, 1, and 3) has been studied using an ab initio approach. The computed structural and thermodynamic data related to the binding process show that molecular oxygen interacts better with neutral clusters, acting as an electron acceptor, while CO more strongly binds to positively charged species, thus acting as an electron donor.
Thermodynamics of copolymer solutions: how the pair interactions contribute to the overall effect.
2014
Vapor pressure measurements were performed for solutions of poly(methyl methacrylate-ran-tert-butyl methacrylate) with different weight fractions of tert-butyl methacrylate units, and their parental homopolymers in chloroform at 323 K, over a large domain of concentrations. The Flory–Huggins interaction parameters obtained from these experimental investigations show complex dependences of the Flory–Huggins interaction parameter on concentration and copolymer composition. This behavior can be modeled by taking into account an approach which considers the ability of the polymers to rearrange in a response to changes in their molecular surroundings [Adv. Polym. Sci. 2011, 238, 1–66]. According…
Liquid/Gas and Liquid/Liquid Phase Equilibria of the System Water/Bovine Serum Albumin
2013
The thermodynamic behavior of the system H2O/BSA was studied at 25 °C within the entire composition range: vapor pressure measurements via head space sampling gas chromatography demonstrate that the attainment of equilibria takes more than one week. A miscibility gap was detected via turbidity and the coexisting phases were analyzed. At 6 °C the two phase region extends from ca. 34 to 40 wt % BSA; it shrinks upon heating. The polymer rich phase is locally ordered, as can be seen under the optical microscope using crossed polarizers. The Flory-Huggins theory turns out to be inappropriate for the modeling of experimental results. A phenomenological expression is employed which uses three adju…
N,N,N-Alkyloctyldimethylammonium Chlorides in Water: A Thermodynamic Investigation
1993
Abstract Specific conductivities, densities, heat capacities and enthalpies of dilution at 298 K and osmotic coefficients at 310 K were measured for N,N,N -octylbutyldimethylammonium, N,N,N -octylpentyldimethylammonium, and N,N -dioctyldimethylammonium chlorides in water as functions of concentration. From the specific conductivity data, the CMC and the degree of the counterion dissociation have been calculated. It is shown that additional CH 2 groups in the variable alkyl chain affect both CMC and β less than they do in the single chain surfactants. The partial molar volumes, heat capacities, relative enthalpies, nonideal free energies, and entropies at 298 K were derived as functions of t…
Modeling of Amino Acid Electrodiffusion through Fixed Charge Membranes
2001
Abstract We study theoretically the electrodiffusion of amino acids through fixed charge membranes, calculating the ionic fractions of the amino acid in the membrane as well as its total flux as a function of the relevant experimental parameters (amino acid concentration, salt concentration, and pH of the external solution; membrane fixed charge concentration; and amino acid membrane/solution partition coefficients) under different experimental conditions (symport vs antiport transport, uphill transport, etc.). The theoretical approach employed is based on the Nernst–Planck flux equations in the (Goldman) constant electric field assumption and considers all the species present in the system…
Continuous fractionation and solution properties of PIB. I. Search for the best mixed solvent and first results of the continuous polymer fractionati…
1987
To adopt a recently developed method for large scale fractionation (CPF = continuous polymer fractionation, a special kind of counter current extraction) to polyisobutylene (PIB), a systematic search for the best mixed solvent was performed. For this purpose, the essential parts of the phase diagrams solvent/nonsolvent/PIB were determined for 21 mixed solvents by cloud-point measurements; with eight systems of special interest, the molecular weight distributions of the polymers contained in the coexisting phases were also studied. On the basis of these experiments and of considerations concerning additional criteria for the performance of the continuous counter current extraction, the mixed…
Theory-based improvements of continuous polymer fractionation demonstrated for poly(carbonate)
1992
For the first time, a quantitative theoretical analysis (liquid/liquid phase equilibria treated by means of the continuous thermodynamics) of the operating characteristics of continuous polymer fractionation (CPF) was performed. The results of these calculations were compared with data published for CPF of polyethylene. It turned out that the efficiency of the conventional CPF corresponds to approximately two theoretical plates only. For this reason, several improvements, suggested by theoretical considerations, were realized experimentally, for which purpose the system dichloromethane/diethylene glycol/bisphenol-A polycarbonate was chosen. The pulsating sieve-bottom column was replaced by …
Continuous fractionation and solution properties of PIB. II. CPF optimization
1987
The quality of polymer fractionation depends on the choice of the mixed solvent as well as on the particular conditions of operating the continuous countercurrent extraction. With a polyisobutylene (PIB) sample of medium molecular weight Mw = 98,400 g/mol and U = (Mw/Mn) − 1 = 1.4 plus the mixed solvents toluene/2-butanone (TOL/MEK) and n-heptane/2-butanone (HEP/MEK) (both giving comparably good fractionation in equilibrium experiments), possible ways to optimize the CPF were tested. The mixed solvent HEP/MEK turns out to be superior to TOL/MEK for kinetic reasons. Due to the larger gap between its density and that of the pure polymer, the coexisting phases can still move through the column…
α,ω-Functionalized poly-N-isopropylacrylamides: controlling the surface activity for vesicle adsorption by temperature
2003
The synthesis of alpha,omega-end-functionalized copolymers of N-isopropylacrylamide and N-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)acrylamide was performed. Monomer ratios of 100:0, 96:4, and 81:19 were investigated. The lower critical solution temperature (LCST) of these polymers was determined by cloud-point measurements and by microcalorimetric measurements. The LCST increased from 32 over 37 to 47 degrees C as the hydrophobicity increased with increasing amount of comonomer N-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)acrylamide. The polymers could successfully be adsorbed onto gold surfaces. Finally, vesicle adsorption onto these self-assembled polymer films on flat gold surfaces was investigated as the vesicle solution te…
Composite membranes of aromatic-polyamide for desalination: Membrane preparation and characterization.
1987
A new reverse osmosis composite membrane composed of the following aromatic polymer was estudied. Composite membranes were successfully prepared from PTDS by the conventional phase-inversion method. A typical example of the basic membrane performances is as follows; water flux, 440 1/m2 day and salt rejection, 97.7% determined under the pressure of 40 atm., using 0.1% NaCl solution at 25 °C. The PTDS membrane was characterized by its excellent chemical and thermal resistances, especially against acid, alkali and oxidative atmospheres. These features suggest that the PTDS membrane is a promising candidate for water desalination.