Hexagonal crystalline phases

The major part (80-90 vol %) of the films is crystalline. On the basis of XPS and ED data, for films deposited below 400°C the hexagonal crystalline phase was assigned to Ni3C, in the nitrogen containing films the formation of Ni3N is also possible, while above 400°C the crystalline phase is fee structured Ni, and NiCx.. ... 

In a crosslinked sample, the hexagonal crystalline phase withstands even 230 °C. This apparently abnormally high temperature of melting may be explained by the fact that polymer chains were forced to retain an extended chain arrangement within the crystallites of the highly crosslinked and diemically modified amorphous domains and the entropy of their fusion would thus be smaller than the value for a random coil in the melt. In amorphous domains, a denser structure of crosslinks is probably formed and this has a high temperature. 

The detection of Hquid crystal is based primarily on anisotropic optical properties. This means that a sample of this phase looks radiant when viewed against a light source placed between crossed polarizers. An isotropic solution is black under such conditions (Fig. 12). Optical microscopy may also detect the Hquid crystal in an emulsion. The Hquid crystal is conspicuous from its radiance in polarized light (Fig. 13). The stmcture of the Hquid crystalline phase is also most easily identified by optical microscopy. Lamellar Hquid crystals have a pattern of oil streaks and Maltese crosses (Fig. 14a), whereas ones with hexagonal arrays of cylinders give a different optical pattern (Fig. 14b). 

The phase behavior of a-ester sulfonates has been studied in detail with methyl laurate and methyl palmitate [58]. In both cases, at higher temperatures, as the surfactant concentration increases, there is a transition from an isotropic solution to a hexagonal liquid crystalline phase and finally, at high surfactant concentrations, to a lamellar liquid crystal (Fig. 4). The crystal/liquid-crys-tal phase transition occurs at even higher temperatures as the chain length increases. On the other hand, chain length has practically no influence on the... 

FIG. 7 Structures of various liquid-crystalline phases of membrane lipids. (A) Normal hexagonal phase (Hi) (B) lamellar phase (C) inverted hexagonal phase (Hu). Cubic phases consisting of (D) spherical, (E) rod-shaped, and (F) lamellar units. The hydrocarbon regions are shaded and the hydrophilic regions are white. (Reprinted by permission from Ref. 11, copyright 1984, Kluwer Academic Publishers.)... 

Table 1 Thermal and geometrical data of selected semiflexible polymers giving rise to thermotropic hexagonal mesophases or main-chain disordered crystalline phases (adapted from [11])... 

One of the authors (MH) showed that the formation of an ECSC or an FCC is related to the order of the crystalline phase [20,33,34], that is, an ECSC and an FCC are formed from the melt into a disordered hexagonal and an ordered orthorhombic phase, respectively. It is natural to consider that the surface diffusion process should be controlled by the order of the crystalline phase. This is the reason why H shows a significant difference between ECSC and FCC. 

A possible economically attractive alternative would be the production of acrylic acid in a single step process starting from the cheaper base material propane. In the nineteen nineties the Mitsubishi Chemical cooperation published a MoVTeNb-oxide, which could directly oxidise propane to acrylic acid in one step [6], Own preparations of this material yielded a highly crystalline substance. Careful analysis of single crystal electron diffraction patterns revealed that the MoVTeNb-oxide consists of two crystalline phases- a hexagonal so called K-Phase and an orthorhombic I-phase, which is the actual active catalyst phase, as could be shown by preparing the pure phases and testing them separately. 

FIG. 11. Transmission electron micrographs of freeze fractured oily droplets dispersed (a) in a hexagonal and (b) in a cubic liquid crystalline phase, bar 100 nm. From Mueller-Goymann, C., Liquid crystals in emulsions, creams and gels, containing ethoxylated sterols as surfactant, Pharm. Res. 1 154-158 (1984). 

Recently, we and others demonstrated that appropriate germanide Zintl clusters in non-aqueous liquid-crystalline phases of cationic surfactants can assemble well-ordered mesostructured and mesoporous germanium-based semiconductors. These include mesostructured cubic gyroidal and hexagonal mesoporous Ge as well as ordered mesoporous binary intermetallic alloys and Ge-rich chalcogenide semiconductors. 

L micellar solution phase L lamellar liquid crystalline phase V viscous isotropic phase H2 reverse hexagonal phase... 

Figure 5.2 Top-diagramatic representation of a detergent molecule, (a) Single tailed (b) double tailed (c) zwitterionic (d) bolamphiphilic. Bottom - different types of surfactant aggregates in solution (A) monolayer (B) bilayer (C) liquid-crystallin phase lamellar (D) normal micelles (E) cylindrical micelles (hexagonal) (F) vesicles (liposomes) (G) reversed micelles.

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