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The results discussed in this chapter demonstrate that 2H NMR is a powerful technique for investigating microscopic properties in rubber networks. Most of the experiments described here are easy to handle on standard NMR equipment. Due to the absence of interactions between 2H nuclei, spectra and line shapes are easy to interpret and give quite direct information, at least in the first step of analysis, which is that generally required to correlate microscopic to macroscopic properties in these systems. Additionally, in contrast to optical techniques (as birefringence, infrared dichroism, fluorescence polarisation) the information which is obtained is very specific, because spatial and temporal averaging processes are clearly distinguishable in NMR. 

Darien BJ, Sims PA, Kruse-Elliott KT, Homan TS, Cashwell RJ, Cooley AJ and Albrecht RM (1995) Use of colloidal gold and neutron activation in correlative microscopic labeling and label quantitation. Scanning Microsc 9 773-780. 

Commercial systems from manufactures such as Nikon, Olympus, and Zeiss now exist with many design aspects directed towards single molecule studies. Of particular note is the Confocor series of fluorescence correlation microscopes available from Carl Zeiss [59]. Such commercial systems are excellent solutions for many labs. The cost of these systems can, however, be prohibitive. Furthermore, modifications to these microscopes may be necessary, particularly in the light of the rapid rate of emergence of new single molecule techniques, (e.g. it is doubtful a commercial system would be able to carry out the measurements outlined in [9,60] without significant modification). 

Jankowski, T and Janka, T, in R Rigler and ES Elson (Eds.), Confocor 2 - The Second Generation of Fluorescence Correlation microscopes. Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy Theory and Applications. Springer, Berhn, 2001, pp. 331 345. 

The second step in the analysis involves identifying the extent of sample chemical heterogeneity. In order to do so, the unknown samples are imaged with conventional optical microscopy, using all available contrast-enhancement techniques (bright field, dark field, Die, polarized light, etc.). Regions of the sample that exhibit contrast are then sampled with the Raman microprobe in an attempt to correlate microscopic appearance... 

The advances in the molecular design of new polymeric materials with targeted properties require advanced molecular characterization of the polymers. ESR techniques are among the methods under continuous development in the quest for more comprehensive physical and chemical information that could correlate microscopic properties with materials performance. ESR spectroscopy has been used in various areas of polymer science, with different goals, such as to study mechanisms of chemical reactions in polymerization and radiation effects, to identify intermediate species, to observe decay and conversion of different species, or to investigate relaxation phenomena of polymer chains by observing temperature-dependent ESR spectra of radical species trapped in solid and liquid polymers. 

There has been much activity in the study of monolayer phases via the new optical, microscopic, and diffraction techniques described in the previous section. These experimental methods have elucidated the unit cell structure, bond orientational order and tilt in monolayer phases. Many of the condensed phases have been classified as mesophases having long-range correlational order and short-range translational order. A useful analogy between monolayer mesophases and die smectic mesophases in bulk liquid crystals aids in their characterization (see [182]). 

The current frontiers for the subject of non-equilibrium thennodynamics are rich and active. Two areas dommate interest non-linear effects and molecular bioenergetics. The linearization step used in the near equilibrium regime is inappropriate far from equilibrium. Progress with a microscopic kinetic theory [38] for non-linear fluctuation phenomena has been made. Carefiil experiments [39] confinn this theory. Non-equilibrium long range correlations play an important role in some of the light scattering effects in fluids in far from equilibrium states [38, 39]. 

Progress in the theoretical description of reaction rates in solution of course correlates strongly with that in other theoretical disciplines, in particular those which have profited most from the enonnous advances in computing power such as quantum chemistry and equilibrium as well as non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of liquid solutions where Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations in many cases have taken on the traditional role of experunents, as they allow the detailed investigation of the influence of intra- and intemiolecular potential parameters on the microscopic dynamics not accessible to measurements in the laboratory. No attempt, however, will be made here to address these areas in more than a cursory way, and the interested reader is referred to the corresponding chapters of the encyclopedia. 

Furtlier details can be found elsewhere [20, 78, 82 and 84]. An approach to tire dynamics of nematics based on analysis of microscopic correlation fimctions has also been presented [85]. Various combinations of elements of tire viscosity tensor of a nematic define tire so-called Leslie coefficients [20, 84]. 

The question then is, to what degree can the microscopic motions influence the macroscopic ones is there a flow of infonnation between them [66] Biological systems appear to be nonconservative par excellence and present at least the possibility that random thermal motions are continuously injecting new infonnation into the macroscales. There is certainly no shortage of biological molecular machines for turning heat into correlated motion (e.g. [67] and section C2.14.5 note also [16]). 

The final correlation for the overall boiling heat-transfer coefficient in pipes or channels (20) is a direct addition of the macroscopic (mac) and microscopic (mic) contributions to the coefficient ... 

Likewise, the microscopic heat-transfer term takes accepted empirical correlations for pure-component pool boiling and adds corrections for mass-transfer and convection effects on the driving forces present in pool boiling. In addition to dependence on the usual physical properties, the extent of superheat, the saturation pressure change related to the superheat, and a suppression factor relating mixture behavior to equivalent pure-component heat-transfer coefficients are correlating functions. 

Another chapter deals with the physical mechanisms of deformation on a microscopic scale and the development of micromechanical theories to describe the continuum response of shocked materials. These methods have been an important part of the theoretical tools of shock compression for the past 25 years. Although it is extremely difficult to correlate atomistic behaviors to continuum response, considerable progress has been made in this area. The chapter on micromechanical deformation lays out the basic approaches of micromechanical theories and provides examples for several important problems. 

The low-temperature chemistry evolved from the macroscopic description of a variety of chemical conversions in the condensed phase to microscopic models, merging with the general trend of present-day rate theory to include quantum effects and to work out a consistent quantal description of chemical reactions. Even though for unbound reactant and product states, i.e., for a gas-phase situation, the use of scattering theory allows one to introduce a formally exact concept of the rate constant as expressed via the flux-flux or related correlation functions, the applicability of this formulation to bound potential energy surfaces still remains an open question. 

A microscopic description characterizes the structure of the pores. The objective of a pore-structure analysis is to provide a description that relates to the macroscopic or bulk flow properties. The major bulk properties that need to be correlated with pore description or characterization are the four basic parameters porosity, permeability, tortuosity and connectivity. In studying different samples of the same medium, it becomes apparent that the number of pore sizes, shapes, orientations and interconnections are enormous. Due to this complexity, pore-structure description is most often a statistical distribution of apparent pore sizes. This distribution is apparent because to convert measurements to pore sizes one must resort to models that provide average or model pore sizes. A common approach to defining a characteristic pore size distribution is to model the porous medium as a bundle of straight cylindrical or rectangular capillaries (refer to Figure 2). The diameters of the model capillaries are defined on the basis of a convenient distribution function. 

Since we shall also be interested in analyzing the confined fluid s microscopic structure it is worthwhile to introduce some useful structural correlation functions at this point. The simplest of these is related to the instantaneous number density operator... 

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