Crystal hydrophilicity

Diamond behaves somewhat differently in that n is low in air, about 0.1. It is dependent, however, on which crystal face is involved, and rises severalfold in vacuum (after heating) [1,2,25]. The behavior of sapphire is similar [24]. Diamond surfaces, incidentally, can have an oxide layer. Naturally occurring ones may be hydrophilic or hydrophobic, depending on whether they are found in formations exposed to air and water. The relation between surface wettability and friction seems not to have been studied. 

Amphiphilic Molecules. In just about all cases of lyotropic Hquid crystals, the important component of the system is a molecule with two very different parts, one that is hydrophobic and one that is hydrophilic. These molecules are called amphiphilic because when possible they migrate to the iaterface between a polar and nonpolar Hquid. Soaps such as sodium laurate and phosphoHpids such as a-cephalin [5681-36-7] (phosphatidylethanolamine) (2) are important examples of amphiphilic molecules which form Hquid crystal phases (see Lecithin Soap). 

Figure 12.2 (a) Schematic drawing of membrane proteins in a typical membrane and their solubilization by detergents. The hydrophilic surfaces of the membrane proteins are indicated by red. (b) A membrane protein crystallized with detergents bound to its hydrophobic protein surface. The hydrophilic surfaces of the proteins and the symbols for detergents are as in (a). (Adapted from H. Michel, Trends Biochem. Sci. 8 56-59, 1983.)... 

The polyols used are of three types polyether, polyester, and polybutadiene. The polyether diols range from 400 to about 10,000 g/mol. The most common polyethers are based on ethylene oxide, propylene oxide, and tetrahydrofuran or their copolymers. The ether link provides low temperature flexibility and low viscosity. Ethylene oxide is the most hydrophilic and thus can increase the rate of ingress of water and consequently the cure rate. However, it will crystallize slowly above about 600 g/mol. Propylene oxide is hydrophobic due to hindered access to the ether link, but still provides high permeability to small molecules like water. Tetrahydrofuran is between these two in hydrophobicity, but somewhat more expensive. Propylene oxide based diols are the most common. 

At constant PBT/PTMO composition, when the molar mass of PTMO block is >2000, partial crystallization of the polyether phase leads to copolymer stiffening. The properties of polyesterether TPEs are not dramatically different when PTMO is replaced by polyethers such as poly(oxyethylene) (PEO) or poly(oxypropylene). PEO-based TPEs present higher hydrophilicity, which may be of interest for some applications such as waterproof breathable membranes but which also results in much lower hydrolysis resistance. Changing PBT into a more rigid polymer by using 2,6-naphthalene dicarboxylic acid instead of terephthalic acid results in compounds that exhibit excellent general properties but poorer low-temperature stiffening characteristics. 

Figure 9. Theoretical C,E curves (1, 2, 3) for single-crystal faces and (4) for a model polycrystalline surface calculated by the superposition of the C,E curves at E= const [Eq. (49)] with = 02 = = 1/3 1. (a) Faces with strong hydrophilicity and (b, c) faces with...

Figure 24 shows that the values of AX derived from Figs. 14 and 15 are consistent with the values of C measured by Valette.390 On the other hand, the same values of C cannot fit Fig. 24 if the values of AX estimated by Valette389 are used. The same is the case for the values of C as reported by Popov et alm for single-crystal faces grown in a Teflon capillary. These authors observed the opposite sequence, i.e., C(111) > C(100), thus concluding that the (111) face is more hydrophilic than the (100) face. However, as pointed out earlier, they measured the same Eam0 as the other... 

Other data support the above picture. Hexanol adsorbs very weakly on Ag(l 10), more weakly than expected, and in any case less than on the (100) face.440 Such a poor adsorption on (110) faces has been explained in terms of steric hindrance caused by the superficial rails of atoms. Consistently, adsorption on the (110) face of Cu is vanishing small.587 Predictions based on a linear regression analysis of the data for pentanol (nine metals) give a value of-12 kJ mol 1 for Cu(l 10) and about -16 kJ mol 1 for Au(110). No data are available for polycrystalline Au, but Au(l 11) is placed in the correct position in the adsorption of hexanol.910 Thus, these data confirm the hydrophilicity sequence Hg < Au < Ag and the crystal face sequence for fee metals (111) < (100) < (110). 

Gogolewski et al. " combined Pluronic F-68(poly(ethylene-propylene-ethylene oxide) with PCL within the same soft segment. BD or 2-amino-l-butanol was used as the chain extender and HDI as the hard segment. They observed that all the materials calcified and calcification increased with material hydrophilicity. The stmcture and composition of the calcium crystals formed on the materials depended on the PU chemistry. 

On the other hand, in.the case of the nonionic surfactants C-15, NP-15 and 0-15 (the nonionic surfactant/cyclohexane system), mono-dispersed silicalite nanocrystals were obtained as shown in Fig. 1(c), 1(d) and 1(e), respectively. The X-ray diffraction patterns of the samples showed peaks corresponding to pentasile-type zeolite. The average size of the silicalite nanocrystals was approximately 120 nm. These results indicated that the ionicity of the hydrophilic groups in the surfactant molecules played an important role in the formation and crystallization processes of the silicalite nanocrystals. 

Vaterite is thermodynamically most unstable in the three crystal structures. Vaterite, however, is expected to be used in various purposes, because it has some features such as high specific surface area, high solubility, high dispersion, and small specific gravity compared with the other two crystal systems. Spherical vaterite crystals have already been reported in the presence of divalent cations [33], a surfactant [bis(2-ethylhexyl)sodium sulfate (AOT)] [32], poly(styrene-sulfonate) [34], poly(vinylalcohol) [13], and double-hydrophilic block copolymers [31]. The control of the particle size of spherical vaterite should be important for application as pigments, fillers and dentifrice. 

Uosaki, K., Yano, T. and Nihonyanagi, S. (2004) Interfacial water structure at as-prepared and UV-rnduced hydrophilic Ti02 surfaces studied hy sum frequency generation spectroscopy and quartz crystal microhalance. J. Phys. Chem. B, 108, 19086-19088. 

In almost all theoretical studies of AGf , it is postulated or tacitly understood that when an ion is transferred across the 0/W interface, it strips off solvated molecules completely, and hence the crystal ionic radius is usually employed for the calculation of AGfr°. Although Abraham and Liszi [17], in considering the transfer between mutually saturated solvents, were aware of the effects of hydration of ions in organic solvents in which water is quite soluble (e.g., 1-octanol, 1-pentanol, and methylisobutyl ketone), they concluded that in solvents such as NB andl,2-DCE, the solubility of water is rather small and most ions in the water-saturated solvent exist as unhydrated entities. However, even a water-immiscible organic solvent such as NB dissolves a considerable amount of water (e.g., ca. 170mM H2O in NB). In such a medium, hydrophilic ions such as Li, Na, Ca, Ba, CH, and Br are selectively solvated by water. This phenomenon has become apparent since at least 1968 by solvent extraction studies with the Karl-Fischer method [35 5]. Rais et al. [35] and Iwachido and coworkers [36-39] determined hydration numbers, i.e., the number of coextracted water molecules, for alkali and alkaline earth metal... 

Protein recovery via disruption has also been achieved by adsorbing water from the w/o-ME solution, which causes protein to precipitate out of solution. Methods of water removal include adsorption using silica gel [73,151], molecular sieves [152], or salt crystals [58,163], or formation of clanthrate hydrates [154]. In most of the cases reported, the released protein appeared as a solid phase that, importantly, was virtually surfactant-free. In contrast to the dilution technique, it appears that dehydration more successfully released biomolecules that are hydrophilic rather than hydrophobic. 

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