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The template-assisted synthetic strategies outlined above produce micro- or mesoporous stmetures in which amorphous or crystalline polymers can form around the organic template ligands (174). Another approach is the use of restricted spaces (eg, pores of membranes, cavities in zeolites, etc.) which direct the formation of functional nanomaterials within thek cavities, resulting in the production of ultrasmaU particles (or dots) and one-dimensional stmetures (or wkes) (178). For example, in the case of polypyrrole and poly(3-methylthiophene), a solution of monomer is separated from a ferric salt polymerization agent by a Nucleopore membrane (linear cylindrical pores with diameter as small as 30 nm) (179—181). Nascent polymer chains adsorb on the pore walls, yielding a thin polymer film which thickens with time to eventually yield a completely filled pore. De-encapsulation by dissolving the membrane in yields wkes wherein the polymer chains in the narrowest fibrils are preferentially oriented parallel to the cjlinder axes of the fibrils. 

Other types of diffusive sampler have been less widely applied for indoor air studies. These include tube type samplers that are solvent desorbed and radial type samplers consisting of a cylindrical adsorbent surface that has a short diffusive path resulting in an effective uptake rate that is typically 100 times that of the tube type sampler (Cocheo, Boaretto and Sacco, 1996). One type of radial sampler developed for measuring carbonyl compounds in indoor air comprises silica gel coated with 2,4-DNPH as the adsorbent within a sintered polyethylene tube that acts as a diffusive membrane (Uchiyamaa, Aoyagi and Ando, 2004). 

A membrane-puncturing theory has been proposed by Davis (Dravnieks 1967). According to this theory, the odorous substance molecules are adsorbed across the interface of the thin lipid membrane, which forms part of the cylindrical wall of the neuron in the chemoreceptor and the aqueous phase that surrounds the neuron. Adsorbed molecules orient themselves with the hydrophilic end toward the aqueous phase. When the adsorbed molecules are desorbed, they move into the aqueous phase, leaving a defect. Ions... 

The first instrument to directly measure the van der Waals forces between molecularly smooth cylindrical mica surfaces was the Surface Force Apparatus (SFA) developed by Tabor and Winterton (1969) and Israelachvili and Tabor (1972, 1973). The results from SFA were the first to confirm the predictions of Lifshitz theory of van der Waals forces down to surface separations as small as 1.5 nm. The SFA technique has since then been modified and has found applications in many different areas, both biological and non-biological to provide information on the different forces acting between the surfaces and molecules. However, a limitation ofthis technique is that it measures interactions between membranes, proteins or various metal oxide layers or films, which have to be deposited/adsorbed onto the molecularly smooth mica surfaces. 

The quantity (C /Ca) is the geometrical partitioning factor defined earlier (see (3.3.88a) and (3.3.89a)) for the partitioning of a solute between a solution and a porous membrane. Here the porous membrane is replaced by the microporous adsorbent. The quantity k, , is less than 1 unless there are specific or nonspecific interactions (electrostatic or van der Waals interactions) between the solute and the pores it can be quite small if the radius r, of the solute molecules is of the order of the pore radius tp. For cylindrical pores (see (3.3.88a)),... 

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