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The scattering techniques, dynamic light scattering or photon correlation spectroscopy involve measurement of the fluctuations in light intensity due to density fluctuations in the sample, in this case from the capillary wave motion. The light scattered from thermal capillary waves contains two observables. The Doppler-shifted peak propagates at a rate such that its frequency follows Eq. IV-28 and... 

If we consider the scattering from a general two-phase system (figure B 1.9.10) distinguished by indices 1 and 2) containing constant electron density in each phase, we can define an average electron density and a mean square density fluctuation as ... 

In the next section, we consider the application of Eq. (10.49) to scattering from fluctuations in concentration. 

The Phenomenon. In existing materials the electron density is not even constant inside a single phase. This is obvious for the liquid structure of amorphous regions. Nevertheless, even in crystalline phases lattice distortions and grain boundaries result in variations of the electron density about its mean value. In analogy to the sunlight scattered from the fluctuations of air density, X-rays are scattered from the fluctuations of electron density. 

Smoluchowski (1908), Einstein (1910), Ornstein Zernike (1914, 1918). In a textbook on scattering HIGGINS Benoit ([136], Sect. 7.6) consider the fluctuation theory from a different point of view. 

This effective Q,t-range overlaps with that of DLS. DLS measures the dynamics of density or concentration fluctuations by autocorrelation of the scattered laser light intensity in time. The intensity fluctuations result from a change of the random interference pattern (speckle) from a small observation volume. The size of the observation volume and the width of the detector opening determine the contrast factor C of the fluctuations (coherence factor). The normalized intensity autocorrelation function g Q,t) relates to the field amplitude correlation function g (Q,t) in a simple way g t)=l+C g t) if Gaussian statistics holds [30]. g Q,t) represents the correlation function of the fluctuat-... 

Application of this technique to measurements of the spectral distribution of tight scattered from a pure SF fluid at its critical point was present by Ford and Benedek The scattering is produced by entropy fluctuations which decay very slowly in the critical region. Therefore the spectrum of the scattered light is extremely narrow (10 - lO cps) and can only be observed by this light beating technique 240a)... 

Stimulated Rayleigh scattering from localised thermal fluctuations in gases 258) and liquids 259) has been reported with measurements of the line shifts, thresholds and critical absorption coefficients. 

Light scattering from a solution is due both to the scattering from local density fluctuations and to the scattering from the solvent [9,18], This scattering may be described by the Rayleigh scattering ratio [9,18] ... 

The scattered light intensity from a polymer solution arises from the fluctuations in both the solvent density and the polymer concentration. These fluctuations are considered as stable during the timescale of the measurement in the static mode of light scattering (for more details, see Evans (1972)). The light scattered from just the polymer (in excess of the light scattered from the pure solvent) is given by (Burchard, 1994)... 

Liquid solutions also scatter light by a similar mechanism. In the case of a solution, the scattering may be traced to two sources fluctuations in solvent density and fluctuations in solute concentration. The former are most easily handled empirically by subtracting a solvent blank correction from measurements of the intensity of light scattered from solutions. What we are concerned with in this section, then, is the remaining scattering, which is due to fluctuations in the solute concentration in the solution. 

Critical Behavior of Gels. In 1977, the critical phenomena were discovered in the light scattered from an acrylamide gel in water [18]. As the temperature was lowered, both the scattered intensity and the fluctuation time of the scattered light increased and appeared to diverge at —17 °C. The phenomenon was explained as the critical density fluctuations of polymer networks although the polymers were crosslinked [19, 20]. 

For a unit volume, the intensity of scattering will be equal to the total scattering from all < > volume elements which it contains. Since 0) = 1 /SV and since the fluctuations in electron density are the consequence of fluctuations in concentration of component 2, A C2e, 2, where the concentration Ce>i is given as the number of electrons per unit volume (A3), we have... 

The use of photon correlation spectroscopy to study the dynamics of concentration fluctuations in polymer solutions and gels is now well established. In bulk polymers near the glass transition there will be slowly relaxing fluctuations in density and optical anisotropy which can also be studied by this technique. In this article we review the development of the field of photon correlation spectroscopy from bulk polymers. The theory of dynamic light scattering from pure liquids is presented and applied to polymers. The important experimented considerations involved in the collection and analysis of this type of data are discussed. Most of the article focuses on the dynamics of fluctuations near the glass transition in polymers. All the published work in this area is reviewed and the results are critically discussed. The current state of the field is summarized and many suggestions for further work are presented. 

The authors list other possible error sources, including minor differences between the spectra of pure components and mixtures, temperature effects, and missing minor components. Again, it is usually best to mimic the true process conditions as much as possible in an off-line set-up. This applies not only to physical parameters like flow rate, turbulence, particulates, temperature, and pressure, but also to minor constituents and expected contaminants. The researchers anticipate correcting these issues in future models, and expect to achieve approximately 0.1-mM detection limits. The models successfully accommodated issues with specular scattering from the biomass and air bubbles and from laser-power fluctuations. 

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