Immobilization transient

Indeed, it is worth noting that by itself, a permeation rate proportional to p°50 could be consistent with any value whatever for the ratio of monatomic to diatomic species in the solid, if the diatomic species is very immobile. For in such case, the permeation flux would be carried entirely by the monatomic species, whose concentration always goes as p0 50. However, a sizable diatomic fraction would significantly modify the transient behavior of the permeation after a change in gas pressure. Although neither Van Wieringen and Warmholtz nor Frank and Thomas published details of the fit of their observed transients to the predictions of diffusion theory, it is unlikely that any large discrepancies would have escaped their attention. 

Note that Eq. 10.5 is written to allow the velocity to vary as a function of location typical application of the advection-dispersion equation assumes the velocity and the hydrodynamic coefficients to be constant. Moreover, the time dependence of these parameters arises when flow (infiltration) is unsteady or transient in these cases, the contact time between contaminants and the solid matrix (and any immobile water within it) is too short to allow an equilibrium to be reached. 

Engelhardt (61). Even more interesting can be the enantioseparation with equal binding constants of both enantiomers with the chiral selector but different mobility of the transient diastereomeric complexes. This is conceptually possible in chiral CE, in contrast to chromatographic techniques with immobilized chiral selectors (3,4). 

Figure 2.12 — Continuous configurations coupled on-line to flow-through sensors involving transient immobilization of the analyte (A) contained in the sample (S). P pump. C carrier. RC regenerating carrier. R reagent. IV injection valve. SV switching valve. W waste. For details, see text.

Reversible sensors afford virtually symmetric transient signals (Fig. 2.18.A) on passage of the sample through the detector (e.g. see [15]). Such is the case with sensors involving a permanently immobilized... 

Sensors based on transient immobilization of a reaction product... 

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An interesting class of exact self-similar solutions (H2) can be deduced for the case where the newly formed phase density is a function of temperature only. The method involves a transformation to Lagrangian coordinates, based upon the principle of conservation of mass within the new phase. A similarity variable akin to that employed by Zener (Z2) is then introduced which immobilizes the moving boundary in the transformed space. A particular case which has been studied in detail is that of a column of liquid, initially at the saturation temperature T , in contact with a flat, horizontal plate whose temperature is suddenly increased to a large value, Tw T . Suppose that the density of nucleation sites is so great that individual bubbles coalesce immediately upon formation into a continuous vapor film of uniform thickness, which increases with time. Eventually the liquid-vapor interface becomes severely distorted, in part due to Taylor instability but the vapor film growth, before such effects become important, can be treated as a one-dimensional problem. This problem is closely related to reactor safety problems associated with fast power transients. The assumptions made are ... 

In summary, the steady state and transient performance of the poly(acrylamide) hydrogel with immobilized glucose oxidase and phenol red dye (pAAm/GO/PR) demonstrates phenomena common to all polymer-based sensors and drag delivery systems. The role of the polymer in these systems is to act as a barrier to control the transport of substrates/products and this in turn controls the ultimate signal and the response time. For systems which rely upon the reaction of a substrate for example via an immobilized enzyme, the polymer controls the relative importance of the rate of substrate/analyte delivery and the rate of the reaction. In membrane systems, the thicker the polymer membrane the longer the response time due to substrate diffusion limitations as demonstrated with our pAAm/GO/PR system. However a membrane must not be so thin as to allow convective removal of the substrates before undergoing reaction, or removal of the products before detection. The steady state as well as the transient response of the pAAm/GO/ PR system was used to demonstrate these considerations with the more complicated case in which two substrates are required for the reaction. 

Investigations into the absorption and emission properties are especially important since they can reveal if the photophysical properties of the molecular components are different when immobilized, compared to when they are dissolved in solution. These investigations typically involve both steady-state and time-resolved methods. Time-resolved or transient techniques yield information about the lifetime of the emitting state, while flash photolysis yields the absorption characteristics of the photochemically produced transient species. Information of this kind is essential for understanding the interactions between the molecular... 

Figure 6.17 Time-resolved transient absorption spectra of [Ru(dcbpy)2(bpzt)] (a) in aqueous solution (pH 7), with spectra taken at 0,25,50,100 and 150 ns, respectively (b) immobilized at nanocrystalline TiC>2, with spectra taken at 0, 50, 250,1000 and 2000 ns, respectively. Reproduced by permission of Wiley-VCH from A. C. Lees, B. Evrard, T. E. Keyes, J. G. Vos, C. J. Kleverlaan, M. Alebbi and C. A. Bignozzi, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2309 (1999)...

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