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The determination of the microstructure of vinyl polymers is not merely a characterisation tool. Each polymer molecule is unique, and each polymer chain is a record of the history of its formation, including mis-insertions, rearrangements, the incorporation of co-monomers, and the mode of its termination. NMR analysis of polymers can therefore be used to provide detailed mechanistic and kinetic information. This approach has been applied particularly successfully to the microstructure, i. e. the sequence distribution of monomer insertions, of polypropylene, giving rise to a wealth of studies far too numerous to cover here. Progress in this area has recently been summarised in two excellent and very comprehensive review articles [122, 123[. Here we will cover only the most fundamental aspects of stereoselective polymerisations. 

In order to evaluate the effect of pore volume blockage in the presence of liquid water causing hindered oxygen transport to the active reaction sites, the direct numerical simulation (DNS) model, mentioned earlier and detailed in our work,25-27 68 is deployed for the pore-scale description of species and charge transport through the reconstructed CL microstructure. 

It can be seen that ceramic multilayer structures have been produced with increments of the hardness of up to 60 GPa, increasing the hardness by up to a factor of almost 3. Initial work in this area has developed a number of ideas, such as the effect of modulus mismatch, which in some cases give good agreement with the models suggested but in many others do not. It is suggested that at least some of this discrepancy can be accounted for by differences in the microstructure and residual stress-state of the film, both of which are often poorly characterized. Furthermore there is very little direct evidence about how these structures deform and in particular about how different layers must be strained in order to accommodate the indenter when it is pressed into the sample. Further advances in this area will require the greater use of numerical techniques to analyse the complex stress and strain behaviour under the indentation, coupled with the use of recently developed techniques that allow the localized deformation behaviour to be observed in detail. 

As was detailed in this section, TEM can bring numerous pieces of information regarding the polymer/nanotube composite microstructure. However, it has to be recalled that nanofillers such as nanotubes easily agglomerates and their dispersion state has to be characterised from the micron to the nanometre scale. This is one reason, among others, why Scanning Electron Microscopy is another widely used to characterise polymer/nanotube composites. 

Recently, Dettenmaier and Kausch have observed an intrinsic craze phenomenon in bisphenol-A polycarbonate (PC), drawn to high stresses and strains in a temperature region close to the glass transition temperature, T. This type of crazing is not only initiated under extremely well defined conditions which reflect specific intrinsic properties of the polymer but also produces numerous crazes of a very regular fibrillar structure. These crazes were called crazes II in order to distinguish them from the extrinsic type of craze, called craze I. As shown by the schematic representation in Figure 1, a detailed quantitative analysis of intrinsic crazes in terms of craze initiation and microstructure was possible. The basis of this analysis and the results obtained are reviewed in this article. 

The deformation behavior of a compositionally graded metal-ceramic structure has been investigated by numerical and (semi)analytical simulations. Random microstructure models are able to predict the response of an FGM-structure in a more accurate way than the other approaches. The interwoven structure in the middle of the FGM can be accounted for using this modeling strategy. For the extended periodic unit cell models the predicted stress strain response depends strongly on the micro-arrangement of the inclusions. Detailed information on the microfields of the stresses and strains can only be obtained by the extended unit cell models. The incremental Mori-Tanaka method... 

In order to complete this review, a brief overview of magnetic materials other than oxides is presented in this chapter. Soft and hard metallic alloys are discussed first instead of a detailed account of the numerous alloy systems, this overview focuses on the mechanisms for obtaining specific microstructures, which, in turn, lead to a precise control of anisotropy in soft materials, and to coercivity in hard materials. These discussions include examples of classic alloys, as well as the recently developed soft amorphous alloys and the impressive supermagnets with extremely high coercive fields. 

In contrast to the graph representation gained by, for example, a skeletonization as described by Thiedmann et al. [5], the voxel-based graph contains the real microstructure in more detail. However, the runtime for the computations of the shortest paths rise since the numbers of edges and vertices increase. In addition, graphs which are extracted from 3D images by, for example, skeletonization [25] can be seen as an averaging over space since it is located more or less in the center of the pore phase. Hence, it can be expected that the real flow, for example the results of numerical transport simulations, are approximated better. 

In addition, the models can be used for generating virtual materials, that is, they can generate microstructures of GDIs which have not been recorded so far. The combination of stochastic simulation of microstructures and numerical simulation of functionality leads to the concept of the so-called virtual material design, that is, the investigation and/or optimization of GDL morphologies based on computer experiments. This approach can be a valuable extension to physical experiments since computer experiments can be executed fairly fast and cheaply. Hence, many more scenarios than with physical experiments can be generated and analyzed in detail. 

Meanwhile, as the basic components of micro mechanical system, nanostructures loaded show different mechanical response compared with macrostructures. Due to size effects, surface effects, and interface effects of nanostructures, properties of nanomaterials are enhanced, and nanoscale research has been an area of active research over the past decades. Many researchers use MD numerical simulation to investigate the physical mechanism of nanostructures by atomic motion in detail and have a rapid progress in recent years [10-21I. Most of those studies mainly concentrated on materials with free defects or artificial defects, however, as a matter of fact, a variety of defects can be generated in nano components during nanomachining process. Therefore, it is greatly important to have a suitable description of the material properties of nano-machined components. In this chapter, in order to find a better way to predict the material properties of microstructures, we established the model of real nanostructure with defect, and conduct the integrated MD... 

The most extensive approach to the investigation of fuel cells numerically so far, applies continuum equations and global relations to predict the characteristics of fuel cells on a system level. For porous material, the homogeneous properties of porous material, like porosity and tortuosity, are used to calculate an equivalent result. This strategy reduces the complexity of modelling within the microstructure but sacrifices the precision of modeling. Moreover, detailed information of the transfer process at the electrode/electrotyte interface is missing. 

While PTC has become a powerful tool for the synthetic organic chemist, it has also had tremendous Impact in the field of polymer science. Numerous examples of polymer modification and functionalization reactions employing phase transfer catalysts have been described. Even more striking, however, has been the role of PTC in actual anionic polymerization reactions, where dramatic effects on polymerization rates, yields, and microstructure can be attributed to the catalyst. Condensation poly merizations have also been facilitated in the presence of phase transfer catalysts. Only recently we reported the first examples of phase transfer initiated free radical polymerization.The present article will detail the features of phase transfer free radical polymerizations and will also describe some of the characteristics of the polymers formed. 

Two approaches can be used to model crystallization kinetics of triglycerides and fat. If the microscopic parameters can be determined, the use of microscopic models is the most appropriate, because it applies directly the theory of nucleation and growth. For example, in the case of spherulitic crystallization, kinetic parameters can be determined experimentally. Solidification can then be modeled in a detailed way with a numerical or stochastic model for the nucleation and growth of crystals. The latter kind of microscopic model is very interesting because it also gives the stereological parameters of the microstructure. Probabilistic or numerical models are easier to use, but they provide only the evolution of the latent heat or the evolution of the solid fraction in the sample. 

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