New evidence disclosed for networking in natural rubber by dielectric relaxation spectroscopy

Soft Matter ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 2290-2299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Liu ◽  
Siwu Wu ◽  
Zhenghai Tang ◽  
Tengfei Lin ◽  
Baochun Guo ◽  
...  

A branch relaxation mode was identified for the first time, which provides new implications for natural networking structures in natural rubber.

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 643-651 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianella Hernández ◽  
Javier Carretero-González ◽  
Raquel Verdejo ◽  
Tiberio A. Ezquerra ◽  
Miguel A. López-Manchado

1998 ◽  
Vol 543 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. H. Anastasiadis ◽  
K. Karatasos ◽  
G. Vlachos ◽  
E. Manias ◽  
E. P. Giannelis

AbstractThe local segmental dynamics of polymers confined within the 15–20 Å interlayer spacing of nanocomposites consisting of poly(methyl phenyl siloxane) intercalated within organically modified silicates, has been investigated utilizing Dielectric Relaxation Spectroscopy. The effect of confinement on the local reorientational dynamics is evident by the observation of a relaxation mode, which is much faster than the segmental α-relaxation of the bulk polymer and exhibits much weaker temperature dependence. This is attributed to the restrictions placed by the interlayer spacing on the cooperative volume required for the ax-relaxation.


2020 ◽  
pp. 128-138
Author(s):  
A. S. Bik-Bulatov

The article uses little known letters of M. Gorky, many of which were published for the first time in 1997, as well as findings of Samara-based experts in local history to shed light on the writer’s work as editor-in-chief of the Samarskaya Gazeta newspaper in 1895. The researcher introduces hitherto unstudied reminiscences of the journalist D. Linyov (Dalin) about this period, which reference a letter by Gorky, now lost. The paper details a newly discovered episode of Gorky’s professional biography as a journalist: it concerns his campaign against a Samara ‘she-wolf,’ the madam of a local brothel A. Neucheva. Linyov’s reminiscences turn out to be an important and interesting source, offering an insight into the daily grind of the young editor Gorky, providing new evidence of his excellent organizational skills, and describing his moral and social stance. The author presents his work in the context of a recently initiated broader discussion about the need to map out all Russian periodicals for the period until 1917, as well as all research devoted to individual publications.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Huang-Takeshi Kohda ◽  
Zhaojie Qian ◽  
Mei-Fang Chien ◽  
Keisuke Miyauchi ◽  
Ginro Endo ◽  
...  

AbstractPteris vittata is an arsenic (As) hyperaccumulator plant that accumulates a large amount of As into fronds and rhizomes (around 16,000 mg/kg in both after 16 weeks hydroponic cultivation with 30 mg/L arsenate). However, the sequence of long-distance transport of As in this hyperaccumulator plant is unclear. In this study, we used a positron-emitting tracer imaging system (PETIS) for the first time to obtain noninvasive serial images of As behavior in living plants with positron-emitting 74As-labeled tracer. We found that As kept accumulating in rhizomes as in fronds of P. vittata, whereas As was retained in roots of a non-accumulator plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Autoradiograph results of As distribution in P. vittata showed that with low As exposure, As was predominantly accumulated in young fronds and the midrib and rachis of mature fronds. Under high As exposure, As accumulation shifted from young fronds to mature fronds, especially in the margin of pinna, which resulted in necrotic symptoms, turning the marginal color to gray and then brown. Our results indicated that the function of rhizomes in P. vittata was As accumulation and the regulation of As translocation to the mature fronds to protect the young fronds under high As exposure.


1990 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-134
Author(s):  
E. Dachwitz

AbstractThe permittivity of the title solutions has been measured at frequencies between some MHz and 72 GHz at 20 °C. Polyvinyl pyrrolidone of relative molar mass ranging from 1200 to 360 000 has been used. Referring to the concentration of monomeric repeat units (x = 0.65 maximum) there is no significant chain length effect. The permittivity data are described in terms of discrete Debye type spectral components. Special attention is paid to the contributions ascribable to the solvents, which are discussed with respect to their solvation behaviour. This can be described by a three state solvent model as follows. Besides the "bulk" solvent a further contribution is found in any case which is due to loosely affected (slowed down) solvent. Moreover a part of the solvent appears to be tightly bound to the polymer at high concentrations. All the solvents considered show similar solvation properties, notwithstanding their different tendencies towards selfassociation.


2007 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Schrödle ◽  
Gary Annat ◽  
Douglas R. MacFarlane ◽  
Maria Forsyth ◽  
Richard Buchner ◽  
...  

A study of the room-temperature ionic liquid N-methyl-N-ethylpyrrolidinium dicyanamide by dielectric relaxation spectroscopy over the frequency range 0.2 GHz ≤ ν ≤ 89 GHz has revealed that, in addition to the already known lower frequency processes, there is a broad featureless dielectric loss at higher frequencies. The latter is probably due to the translational (oscillatory) motions of the dipolar ions of the IL relative to each other, with additional contributions from their fast rotation.


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