Microscopic domain

With this bold stroke, Boltzmann escaped the futile attempt to describe microscopic molecular phenomena in terms of then-known Newtonian mechanical laws. Instead, he injected an essential probabilistic element that reduces the description of the microscopic domain to a statistical distribution of microstates, i.e., alternative microscopic ways of partitioning the total macroscopic energy U and volume V among the unknown degrees of freedom of the molecular domain, all such partitionings having equal a priori probability in the absence of definite information to the contrary. 

H. Lu and M. Gratzl, Optical Detection in Microscopic Domains, Anal. 

Chem. 2000, 72, 1569 K. Tohda, H. Lu, Y. Umezawa, and M. Gratzl, Optical Detection in Microscopic Domains Monitoring Nonfluorescent Molecules with Fluorescence, Anal. Chem. 2001, 73, 2070 E. Litborn, M. Stjernstrom, and... 

A conglomerate in real liquid crystalline phases was first observed in the smectic phase of a rod-shaped mesogen with two stereogenic centers in its tail [42], We used a racemic mixture which was supposed not to electrically switch. Evidence for conglomerate formation was provided by clear electro-optic switching and texture observation under a polarizing microscope domains with stripes, which themselves display fine stripes. These stripes are tilted in two different directions with respect to the primary stripes. This is a still very rare example now that fluid soft matter is known to resolve spontaneously into a three-dimensional conglomerate. 

The weird properties that came to be associated with quantum systems, because of the probability doctrine, obscured the simple mathematical relationship that exists between classical and quantum mechanics. The lenghthy discussion of this aspect may be of less interest to chemical readers, but it may dispel the myth that a revolution in scientific thinking occured in 1925. Actually there is no break between classical and non-classical systems apart from the relative importance of Planck s action constant in macroscopic and microscopic systems respectively. Along with this argument goes the realization that even in classical mechanics, as in optics, there is a wave-like aspect associated with all forms of motion, which becomes more apparent, at the expense of particle behaviour, in the microscopic domain. 

Fig. 23, the polyeleetrolyte complexes exhibit relatively low dielectric constants (e ) and loss factors (c") which slowly decrease with increasing frequency except for the PAA-polyethyleneimine (PEI) system. Hence, the loss tangent (e"/c ) monotonously decreases with frequency. Moreover, even if polyelectrolyte complexes contain a certain amount of microsalt, is the direct current conductance low. This dielectric behavior has been ascribed to the polarizability of the electrolyte sorbed into isolated microscopic domains within the matrix of the polyelectrolyte complexes. 

The kinetic equations serve as a bridge between the microscopic domain and the behavior of macroscopic irreversible processes through the description of hydrodynamics in terms of intermolecular collisions. Hydrodynamics can specify a large number of nonequilibrium states by a small number of reproducible properties such as the mass, density, velocity, and energy density of a fluid conserved during the collision of molecules. Therefore, the hydrodynamic equations can describe a wide range of relaxation processes of nonequilibrium states to equilibrium state. We call such processes decay processes represented by phenomenological equations, such as Fourier s law of heat conduction. The decay rates are determined by the transport coefficients. Reliable transport coefficients provide microscopic and macroscopic information, and validate the results of molecular dynamics. 

This may be an X-ray average over microscopic domains such as the one described in ... 

High solubility of stabilizers is an essential requirement for a good physical retention of a stabilizer in a polymer [27]. Molecules of most stabilizers have relatively high polarity and their solubility in unpolar hydrocarbon polymers is, therefore, only low. Microscopic domains consisting of aggregated polar stabilizers and surface exudates can be formed and are one of reasons for the uneven distribution of a stabilizer in the host polymer as well as for the physical loss of a stabili r. 

The major advance in hydrate thermodynamics was the generation of the van der Waals and Platteeuw model bridging the normal macroscopic and microscopic domains. Only a brief overview is given here to provide a basis for model improvements the reader interested in more details should refer to another source. The essence of the van der Waals and Platteeuw model is the equation for the chemical potential of water in the hydrate phase ... 

Many authors have addressed the mathematical problem of averaging microscopic balance equations in order to derive macroscopic model formulations. However, the result is always a set of equations in which extra terms involving integrals over the microscopic domains remain. While various hypotheses may be made about interfacial closure laws expressing these extra terms as functions of the solution variables, it is not clear that such laws always exist, what form they should take and what approximations may be implied in their use. 

The main purpose of the model was to relate the ion concentration and the local electrostatic parameters. The first step towards this relation was to assume that thermodynamic equilibrium was achieved between the water pools of the reversed micelles and the excess aqueous phase. This hypothesis differs from classical thermodynamics in that the equilibrium does not take place between two macroscopic phases. Biais et already suggested in a microemulsion pseudophase model (60) that, due to the low interfacial tension, chemical potentials of any constituents depend on the composition, even in microscopic domains, but not on the geometric parameters of the structure. 

The pseudovector four-potential B may still contribute to other effects in the microscopic domain. For example, it would predict that a particle, such as a neutron, would have an electric dipole moment, whose value is proportional to the term in the Dirac Hamiltonian 2,a E [12]. However, after much experimental investigation into the possibility of the neutron electric dipole moment, it has not been found [15]—that is, in the context of this theory, the parameter if it were nonzero, must be too small (the order of 10-13) for this effect to be observed. 

Microemulsions are not homogeneous at the molecular level in that they consist of microscopic domains of water and oil separated by a surfactant film. The reaction may occur in either of the two domains, as well as at the interface. However, if the solubility of the polar reactant in hydrocarbon and of the lipophilic component in water is negligible, the reaction can be assumed to be a purely interfacial reaction, i.e. no reaction occurs in the two bulk phases. 

The effect of cholesterol on lateral diffusion has also been studied. Rubenstein and co-workers [50] have found that the lateral diffusion of a fluorescent labelled phosphoUpid, phosphatidyl-iV-(4-nitrobenzo-2-oxa-l, 3-diazole)ethanolamine, exhibited an abrupt change in its lateral diffusion coefficient at 20 mole% cholesterol in a binary mixture of cholesterol and dimyristoylglycerophosphochoUne. Two explanations for this behaviour have been proposed based on the existence of ordered microscopic domains characterised by ripples or strips of solid phase interspread with the more fluid domains of the phosphoUpid-cholesterol complex [51-53]. Such a structure would form barriers to free lateral diffusion. An alternative... 

The silica-based mineral opal may be considered a solid emulsion when enough water is trapped to have microscopic domains larger than the usual hydration layer. A solid foam coffee cup, thermos, or packing filler is made from polymer expanded with microscopic air pockets. Porous polymer and ceramic mem-... 

The range of electronic conductivity (Fig. 7.6, right-hand side) in ceramics is phenomenal — it varies over 24 orders of magnitude, and that does not even include superconductivity Few, if any, other physical properties vary over such a wide range. In addition to electronic conductivity, some ceramics are known to be ionic conductors (Fig. 7.6, left-hand side). In order to understand the reason behind this phenomenal range and why some ceramics are ionic conductors while others are electronic conductors, it is necessary to delve into the microscopic domain and relate the macro-scopically measurable a to more fundamental parameters, such as carrier mobilities and concentrations. This is carried out in the following subsections. 

The interaction between adjacent moments (magnetic as well as dipolar) causes the solid to exhibit a critical temperature below which spontaneous magnetization or polarization sets in, where all the moments are aligned parallel to one another in small microscopic domains. The rotation and growth of these domains in externally applied fields give rise to hysteresis loops and remnant magnetization or polarization, whichever the case may be. 

It is evident that self-organization and the emergence of dissipative structures on a Liouvillian meso-macroscopic level seem to support the use of general Jordan forms. At the same time, on the microscopic domain, we have pointed out the possibility to model (i) particle-antiparticle pairs via... 

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