Crystal formation, inhomogeneous

One of the major difficulties in using MALDI/MS for quantitation is irreproduc-ible signal intensities, which can be caused by inhomogeneous crystal formation,... 

Because the time at high temperature is much less, austenite is produced, which is chemically inhomogeneous especially with undissolved carbides, and has a fine grain crystal size. The formation of the hard martensite requites more rapid cooling than for conventional hardening. Thus case hardening by heat treatment intrinsically requites that the surface region to be hardened be relatively thin and cooled rapidly. 

The present work demonstrates that the mixed oxide catalyst with inhomogeneous nanocrystalline MosOu-type oxide with minor amount of M0O3- and Mo02-type material. Thermal treatment of the catalyst shows a better performance in the formation of the crystals and the catalytic activity. The structural analysis suggests that the catalytic performance of the MoVW- mixed oxide catalyst in the partial oxidation of methanol is related to the formation of the M05O14 t3 e mixed oxide. 

Polymers don t behave like the atoms or compounds that have been described in the previous sections. We saw in Chapter 1 that their crystalline structure is different from that of metals and ceramics, and we know that they can, in many cases, form amorphous structures just as easily as they crystallize. In addition, unlike metals and ceramics, whose thermodynamics can be adequately described in most cases with theories of mixing and compound formation, the thermodynamics of polymers involves solution thermodynamics—that is, the behavior of the polymer molecules in a liquid solvent. These factors contribute to a thermodynamic approach to describing polymer systems that is necessarily different from that for simple mixtures of metals and compounds. Rest assured that free energy will play an important role in these discussions, just as it has in previous sections, but we are now dealing with highly inhomogeneous systems that will require some new parameters. 

By necessity, the treatment of solid state kinetics has to be selective in view of the myriad processes which can occur in the solid state. This multitude is mainly due to three facts 1) correlation lengths in crystals are often much larger than in fluids and may comprise the whole crystal, 2) a structure element is characterized by three parameters instead of only by two in a liquid (chemical species, electrical charge, type of crystallographic site), and 3) a crystal can be elastically stressed. The stress state is normally inhomogeneous. If the yield strength is exceeded, then plastic deformation and the formation of dislocations will change the structural state of a crystal. What we aim at in this book is a strict treatment of concepts and basic situations in a quantitative way, so far as it is possible. In contrast, the often extremely complex kinetic situations in solid state chemistry and materials science will be analyzed in a rather qualitative manner, but with clearcut thermodynamic and kinetic concepts. 

We conclude that the microscopic etch mechanism must be the same for single crystals and sputter deposited, polycrystalline ZnO Al. For the latter, the tendency for crater formation is masked by inhomogeneous chemical or physical properties like porosity, composition or, in case of dynamic deposition, multilayered ZnO Al films. This multilayer structure results from the fact that structural properties of ZnO Al deposited by a sputter process varies depending on the position of the film relative to the race track of the sputter target [131,132]. This dependence is important for the etch rate of in-line sputter deposited films [133]. 

N.M.R. STUDIES of ADSORBED ETHYLENE We have also investigated the reaction of C ethylene with colloidal palladium. Our initial intent was to attempt to observe the formation of ethylidyne from ethylene on the surface of the colloidal palladium particles, a reaction which is known to occur readily on the surface of supported palladium and on palladium single crystals (17). Such a reaction has been identified for ethylene on supported platinum by magnetic resonance experiments in which spin echo double resonance techniques were used to characterize the organic species (18,19), but direct observation of resonances for adsorbed ethylene or ethylidyne was not possible in the highly inhomogeneous solid samples used. The chemical shift differences... 

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