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The PLZT phase diagram is given in Figure 2. As can be seen, the overall effect of adding lanthanum to the PZT system is one of decreasing the stability of the ferroelectric (FE) phases (a ferroelectric material possesses spontaneous internal polarization,... 

Figure 13.19 summarizes the reaction mechanism starting from Sn(OH) + or Sn(OH)e in acidic media in alkaline media. As in the case of Pd, Sn02 oxide is spontaneously formed by dehydration due to an internal oxolation reaction promoted by a strong polarization of the O-H bond of the hydroxide. Thermodynamically stable species with respect to pH are presented in Fig. 13.20. Various molecular cationic species with different hydroxylated levels are possible in an acidic medium, whereas only Sn(OH)g is expected for a basic pH.

The above theory reveals that the piezoelectricity of polymer film can be classified into four cases at its origin (A) The intrinsic piezoelectricity due to internal strain in the crystal, (B) the intrinsic piezoelectricity due to strain-dependence of spontaneous polarization, (Q the piezoelectricity originated from the polarization charge qp arising from strain-independent persistent polarization P0, and (D) the piezoelectricity from the true charge gt embedded in the film. It must be emphasized that in cases (Q and (D) heterogeneous strain Au = (u — Sl/T) must exist in the film. 

Haase and co-workers investigated electro-optic and dielectric properties of ferroelectric liquid crystals doped with chiral CNTs [495, 496]. The performance of the doped liquid crystal mixture was greatly affected even by a small concentration of CNTs. The experimental results were explained by two effects (1) the spontaneous polarization of the ferroelectric liquid crystal is screened by the 7t-electron system of the CNT and (2) the CNT 7i-electrons trap ionic impurities, resulting in a significant modification of the internal electric field within liquid crystal test cells. 

Hydrophobic forces are also important in the assemblies of metallo-supramolecular catenanes. One of the most interesting examples is formed when one of the unpolar bipyridine ligands of one macrocycle is included spontaneously in the other macrocycle s internal cavity [39]. Here, the benzene unit of the one macrocycle serves as a guest molecule for the other macrocycle, and the cyclization is favored by n-n interactions. In addition, the minimization of hydrophobic surfaces in polar medium constitutes the second driving force for the catenane formation. The quantitative formation of the [2]catenanes 31a and 31b based on this principle are depicted in Figure 13. Formation of catenane 31b was found to be reversible. Even at room temperature, two monomeric ring structures equilibrate quickly due to the labile nature of Pd-N bond and interlocked molecular ring system 31b is formed. 

Nuclear excitation and nuclear resonant scattering with synchrotron radiation have opened new fields in Mossbauer spectroscopy and have quite different aspects with the spectroscopy using a radioactive source. For example, as shown in Fig. 1.10, when the high brilliant radiation pulse passed through the resonant material and excite collectively the assemblies of the resonance nuclei in time shorter than the lifetime of the nuclear excited state, the nuclear excitons are formed and their coherent radiation decay occurs within much shorter period compared with an usual spontaneous emission with natural lifetime. This is called as speed-up of the nuclear de-excitation. The other de-excitations of the nuclei through the incoherent channels like electron emission by internal conversion process are suppressed. Synchrotron radiation is linearly polarized and the excitation and the de-excitation of the nuclear levels obey to the selection rule of magnetic dipole (Ml) transition for the Fe resonance. As shown in Fig. 1.10, the coherent de-excitation of nuclear levels creates a quantum beat Q given by... 

Imagine that we select within a sample a subsystem contained in a volume Vj which is small but still macroscopic in the sense that statistical thermodynamics can be applied. If we could measure the properties of this subsystem we would observe time dependent fluctuations, for example in the shape of the volume, i.e. the local strain, the internal energy, the total dipole moment, or the local stress. The fluctuation-dissipation theorem relates these spontaneous, thermally driven fluctuations to the response functions of the system. We formulate the relationship for two cases of interest, the fluctuations of the dipole moments in a polar sample and the fluctuations of stress in a melt. 

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