Electronic collaboration case study

Fitting of Ftheor to F xp can be performed with speed and accuracy by the aid of electronic computers and, in this case, the dependence of the parameters on temperature can easily be allowed for. This type of approach has been used extensively by Scheraga and collaborators in their recent studies on various polypeptides, some of which are quoted in the next section. 

Such a comparative study has been made by Byakov and his collaborators.29 255 They have shown that in the case of water the main contribution to the loss rate given by formula (6.3) comes from excitation of intramolecular vibrations rather than from dipole relaxation. This is all the more so in nonpolar media where the main channel of continuous losses is not the relaxation of constant dipole moments (which are zero) but the polarization losses due to the electron-inducing dipole moments in molecules. The possible exceptions are the media consisting of molecules with a high degree of symmetry, such as methane and neopentane, which have no active vibrations in the IR region. 

Inter-site mixing between the actinide 5f and transition-metal 3d electrons is another way to reduce the orbital contribution to the form factor, and this is the subject of sect. 3.6. In this case, the theoretical predictions of Brooks, Johansson and collaborators (see the chapter by Brooks and Johansson (ch. 112) in this series) has been of major importance, not only in understanding the experimental results, but also in suggesting new compounds for study. This combination of experiment and theory (see fig. 15, for example) has provided a quantitative understanding of hybridization, and thus represents a major advance in the last seven years. Predictions also exist for CeFe2, but no experiments have been reported. 

The research activities in the field of electrochemical materials science included electrochemical studies of metals and alloys, which were conducted, employing such methods as cychc voltammetry, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, quartz crystal nanogravimetry, etc. These investigations in all cases were supported by the characterization of crystalline structure and chemical and phase composition of deposited layers, by means of transmission electron microscopy (TEM), electron diffi action, scanning electron microscopy with microprobe (EDX) analysis. X-ray and Auger electron spectroscopies (XPS), and X-ray diffraction (XRD) techniques. The latter studies were conducted in collaboration with the colleagues from the ICh department of materials strucmre characterization (R. Juskenas, A. Selskis, and V. Jasulaitiene). 

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