Liquid scattering

Recently, a unique approach for using the correlation fiinction method has been demonstrated to extract morphological variables in crystalline polymers from time-resolved syncluotron SAXS data. The principle of the calculation is based on two alternative expressions of Porod s law using the fonu of interference fiinction [33. 36]. This approach enables a continuous estimate of the Porod constant, corrections for liquid scattering... 

Scattering and Disorder. For structure close to random disorder the SAXS frequently exhibits a broad shoulder that is alternatively called liquid scattering ([206] [86], p. 50) or long-period peak . Let us consider disordered, concentrated systems. A poor theory like the one of Porod [18] is not consistent with respect to disorder, as it divides the volume into equal lots before starting to model the process. He concludes that statistical population (of the lots) does not lead to correlation. Better is the theory of Hosemann [158,211], His distorted structure does not pre-define any lots, and consequently it is able to describe (discrete) liquid scattering. The problems of liquid scattering have been studied since the early days of statistical physics. To-date several approximations and some analytical solutions are known. Most frequently applied [201,212-216] is the Percus-Yevick [217] approximation of the Ornstein-Zernike integral equation. The approximation offers a simple descrip-... 

Why do liquids scatter light Why isn t there a destructive influence of the lights scattered by all the molecules ... 

The method of Simpson and Steinfink (4, 5) which uses liquid scattering functions was employed to take into account the unlocated atoms, assuming that they are uniformly distributed throughout a sphere. Atomic parameters were refined with 235 structure factors corresponding to all reflections with h2 + k2 + l2 <396 except the 111 line. A Guinier-type camera with monochromatized Cu K i radiation was used because of its low background diffusion, to detect the broad diffraction fines of external... 

Dispersion (lat. dispersere, distribute) are distribution of two different phases within each other. They are called colloids (gr. gluelike) if the particles are between 10 s and 10"7 m small. Such a mixture in liquids scatters the light (Tyndall effect), is thus not clear. But due to electrostatic repulsion (equally charged particles), colloids do not tend to coagulate and precipitate. 

Figure 8.41. Liquid scattering projected on the meridian, / j ( 3), originating from random placement of lamellae along a shish. The form factor of the dilute system is displayed for reference. Structure parameters as in Fig. 8.40. Uniform crystallite thickness leads to characteristic minima in the scattering curves. Note the varying strength of the oscillations...

The radial distribution function, g(r), can be determined experimentally from X-ray diffraction patterns. Liquids scatter X-rays so that the scattered X-ray intensity is a function of angle, which shows broad maximum peaks, in contrast to the sharp maximum peaks obtained from solids. Then, g(r) can be extracted from these diffuse diffraction patterns. In Equation (273) there is an enhanced probability due to g(r) > 1 for the first shell around the specified molecule at r = o, and a minimum probability, g(r) < 1 between the first and the second shells at r = 1.5cr. Other maximum probabilities are seen at r = 2(7, r = 3 o, and so on. Since there is a lack of long-range order in liquids, g(r) approaches 1, as r approaches infinity. For a liquid that obeys the Lennard-Jones attraction-repulsion equation (Equation (97) in Section 2.7.3), a maximum value of g(r) = 3 is found for a distance of r = <7. If r < cr, then g(r) rapidly goes to zero, as a result of intermolecular Pauli repulsion. 

The calculation ol the multiple scalterine is easy when one assumes that the liquid scatters isotropically, but must be performed by computer simulation when one assumes an ancle dependent scattering of the liquid. In the eases where the absorption of the X-rays by the sample is low. the multiple scattering can be neglected. Aftci normalization of the experimental data to an abso lute scale, the atom incoherent and multiple scattering is subtracted. The result is a distinct term (equation 10.18) which can be Fourier transformed according to equation (10.20). 

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When a solute is dissolved in a liquid, scattering from a volume element again arises from liquid inhomogeneities, but now an additional contribution from flucm-ations in the solute concentration is present, and for polymer solutions the problem is to isolate and measure these additional effects. This was achieved by Debye in 1944, who showed that for a solute whose molecules are small compared with the wavelength of the light used, the reduced angular scattering intensity of the solute is... 

Fig. 11. (top) Broad, normal-state Raman continua in various oxide materials at room temperature (after Sugai et al. 1989). (bottom) Room-temperature Raman continuum in Bi2Sr2CaCu20j fit to a response involving the marginal and nested Fermi liquid scattering rate form (see eq. 26) (after Virosztek and Ruvalds 1992). 

Keywords Gas-liquid scattering Hybrid QM/MM molecular dynamics Interfacial chemistry Room temperature ionic liquids Squalane... 

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