Diffusion of Small Solute Particles in Viscous Liquids: Cage Diffusion, a Result of Decoupling of Solute–Solvent Dynamics, Leads to Amplification of Solute Diffusion

2015 ◽  
Vol 119 (34) ◽  
pp. 11169-11175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sayantan Acharya ◽  
Manoj K. Nandi ◽  
Arkajit Mandal ◽  
Sucharita Sarkar ◽  
Sarika Maitra Bhattacharyya
Keyword(s):  
Solute Diffusion ◽  
Viscous Liquids ◽  
Solvent Dynamics ◽  
Cage Diffusion ◽  
Small Solute

Impact of the Liver on Peritoneal Transport

1996 ◽  
Vol 16 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 205-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael F. Flessner
Keyword(s):  
Peritoneal Cavity ◽  
Transport Coefficients ◽  
Diffusion Chamber ◽  
Solute Diffusion ◽  
Distributed Model ◽  
Peritoneal Membrane ◽  
Peritoneal Transport ◽  
Dialysis Solution ◽  
Mass Transport Coefficient ◽  
Small Solute

Previously, we developed a distributed model of plasma-peritoneal small solute diffusion for specific tissues surrounding the peritoneal cavity and related the transport coefficients to the mass transport coefficient (MTC) of the “peritoneal membrane” model. Based on this theoretical analysis, we calculated tissue-specific MTCs for sucrose from microvascular data in the literature and found that the MTC for the liver was five times the magnitude of other tissues. We hypothesized that the liver was potentially the most significant single transport organ during peritoneal dialysis. To test this hypothesis, we measured the mass transfer from the plasma to fluid contained in diffusion chambers, which were glued to one of four tissues surrounding the peritoneal cavity. We determined that the rate of small solute transport from the plasma to each diffusion chamber was similar for all four tissues. We calculated the MTC of the liver to be no greater than other visceral or parietal surfaces. We therefore disproved our hypothesis concerning the liver. We conclude that the importance of a particular tissue to plasma-peritoneal transport is primarily dependent on the surface area exposed to the dialysis solution.

Observation by HVEM of the martensite transformation and the superconducting transition in Nb3Sn

1988 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 788-789
Author(s):  
M. A. Kirk ◽  
M. C. Baker ◽  
B. J. Kestel ◽  
H. W. Weber
Keyword(s):  
Thin Films ◽  
Low Temperature ◽  
Superconducting State ◽  
Martensite Transformation ◽  
Sputter Deposition ◽  
Diffusion Reaction ◽  
Solute Diffusion ◽  
Superconducting Transition ◽  
Twin Boundaries ◽  
Martensite Structure

It is well known that a number of compound superconductors with the A15 structure undergo a martensite transformation when cooled to the superconducting state. Nb3Sn is one of those compounds that transforms, at least partially, from a cubic to tetragonal structure near 43 K. To our knowledge this transformation in Nb3Sn has not been studied by TEM. In fact, the only low temperature TEM study of an A15 material, V3Si, was performed by Goringe and Valdre over 20 years ago. They found the martensite structure in some foil areas at temperatures between 11 and 29 K, accompanied by faults that consisted of coherent twin boundaries on {110} planes. In pursuing our studies of irradiation defects in superconductors, we are the first to observe by TEM a similar martensite structure in Nb3Sn.Samples of Nb3Sn suitable for TEM studies have been produced by both a liquid solute diffusion reaction and by sputter deposition of thin films.

Solute redistribution during in-situ irradiation of alloys in the high voltage electron microscope

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 370-371
Author(s):  
P. R. Okamoto ◽  
N.Q. Lam ◽  
R. L. Lyles
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscope ◽  
High Voltage ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Solute Diffusion ◽  
Solute Redistribution ◽  
Voltage Electron ◽  
High Voltage Electron Microscope ◽  
High Voltage Electron ◽  
Thin Foils ◽  
Solute Atoms

During irradiation of thin foils in a high voltage electron microscope (HVEM) defect gradients will be set up between the foil surfaces and interior. In alloys defect gradients provide additional driving forces for solute diffusion since any preferential binding and/or exchange between solute atoms and mobile defects will couple a net flux of solute atoms to the defect fluxes. Thus, during irradiation large nonequilibrium compositional gradients can be produced near the foil surfaces in initially homogeneous alloys. A system of coupled reaction-rate and diffusion equations describing the build up of mobile defects and solute redistribution in thin foils and in a semi-infinite medium under charged-particle irradiation has been formulated. Spatially uniform and nonuniform damage production rates have been used to model solute segregation under electron and ion irradiation conditions.An example calculation showing the time evolution of the solute concentration in a 2000 Å thick foil during electron irradiation is shown in Fig. 1.

Synthesis of Smart Mesoporous Materials

2003 ◽  
Vol 775 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.V.Rama Rao ◽  
Qiang Fu ◽  
Linnea K. Ista ◽  
Huifang Xu ◽  
S. Balamurugan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mesoporous Silica ◽  
Mesoporous Materials ◽  
Fluorescent Dyes ◽  
Thermo Gravimetric Analysis ◽  
Molecular Transport ◽  
Solute Diffusion ◽  
Gravimetric Analysis ◽  
Stimuli Responsive ◽  
Porous Network ◽  
Hybrid Mesoporous Materials

AbstractThis study details development of hybrid mesoporous materials in which molecular transport through mesopores can be precisely controlled and reversibly modulated. Mesoporous silica materials formed by surfactant templating were modified by surface initiated atom transfer radical polymerization of poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide) (PNIPAAm) a stimuli responsive polymer (SRP) within the porous network. Thermo gravimetric analysis and FTIR spectroscopy were used to confirm the presence of PNIPAAm on the silica surface. Nitrogen porosimetry, transmission electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction analyses confirmed that polymerization occurred uniformly within the porous network. Uptake and release of fluorescent dyes from the particles was monitored by spectrofluorimetry and scanning laser confocal microscopy. Results suggest that the presence of PNIPAAm, a SRP, in the porous network can be used to modulate the transport of aqueous solutes. At low temperature, (e.g., room temperature) the PNIPAAm is hydrated and extended and inhibits transport of analytes; at higher temperatures (e.g., 50°C) it is hydrophobic and is collapsed within the pore network, thus allowing solute diffusion into or out of the mesoporous silica. The transition form hydrophilic to hydrophobic state on polymer grafted mesoporous membranes was determined by contact angle measurements. This work has implications for the development of materials for the selective control of transport of molecular solutes in a variety of applications.

Non-Newtonian effects in axially symmetric oscillatory flows of some elastico-viscous liquids

1970 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 731-750 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Elastic Properties ◽  
Equations Of State ◽  
Time Lag ◽  
Physical Constant ◽  
Oscillatory Motion ◽  
Axially Symmetric ◽  
Metric Tensor ◽  
Oscillatory Flows ◽  
Viscous Liquids ◽  
Deformation Stress

In (general) elastico-viscous liquids the response to stress at any instant will depend on previous rheological history, the equations of state needed to describe the rheological properties of a typical material element at any instant t being expressible in the form of a (properly invariant†) set of integro-differential equations relating its deformation, stress and temperature histories (as defined by a metric tensor (of a convected frame of reference), a stress tensor and the temperature measured in the element as functions of previous time t'( < t)) together with the time lag (t – t') and physical constant tensors associated with the element (1). Thus in any type of oscillatory motion a rheological history will necessarily be a function of the frequency of the forcing agent, the rheological history of a number of different types of elastico-viscous liquids in some simple shearing oscillatory flows being a rather simple oscillatory history (see, for example, (2–4)). It is, therefore, to be expected that a liquid with elastic properties will behave somewhat differently from any inelastic viscous liquid when subjected to any kind of oscillatory motion, and it is for this reason that oscillatory motions have been used extensively to detect and measure the elastic properties of liquids (see, for example, (2–5)).

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