Porous glass

Fig. XVII-29. Nitrogen isotherms the volume adsorbed is plotted on an arbitrary scale. The upper scale shows pore radii corresponding to various relative pressures. Samples A, Oulton catalyst B, bone char number 452 C, activated charcoal F, Alumina catalyst F12 G, porous glass S, silica aerogel. (From Ref. 196).

In order to describe any electrochemical cell a convention is required for writing down the cells, such as the concentration cell described above. This convention should establish clearly where the boundaries between the different phases exist and, also, what the overall cell reaction is. It is now standard to use vertical lines to delineate phase boundaries, such as those between a solid and a liquid or between two innniscible liquids. The junction between two miscible liquids, which might be maintained by the use of a porous glass frit, is represented by a single vertical dashed line, j, and two dashed lines, jj, are used to indicate two liquid phases... 

Fig. 3.2 Adsorption isotherms for argon and nitrogen at 78 K and for n-butane at 273 K on porous glass No. 3. Open symbols, adsorption solid symbols, desorption (courtesy Emmett and Cines). The uptake at saturation (calculate as volume of liquid) was as follows argon at 78 K, 00452 nitrogen at 78 K, 00455 butane at 273 K, 00434cm g .

Fig. 4.25 Adsorption isotherms showing low-pressure hysteresis, (a) Carbon tetrachloride at 20°C on unactivated polyacrylonitrile carbon Curves A and B are the desorption branches of the isotherms of the sample after heat treatment at 900°C and 2700°C respectively Curve C is the common adsorption branch (b) water at 22°C on stannic oxide gel heated to SOO C (c) krypton at 77-4 K on exfoliated graphite (d) ethyl chloride at 6°C on porous glass. (Redrawn from the diagrams in the original papers, with omission of experimental points.)...

Another version of a fluidized-bed reactor has been introduced by Vogelbusch (Austria). This reactor has an internal recirculation loop set up by means of a high flow impeller. The system utilises porous glass beads for immobilizing the cells. However, glass beads may not work with all types of cells. 

Composition materials ineluding indieator reagent and bearer have been investigated as sensor materials. It has been found out that nature of beai er (sorbent or polymer film) is of the main signifieanee. Siliea gel, aluminium oxide, porous glass, polyurethane, polyvinylehloride ete have been investigated as beai ers. 

Figure 2 BET plots for N2 at 90 K (filled circles) and > 77 K (filled triangles) on porous glass. ...

Recently, many experiments have been performed on the structure and dynamics of liquids in porous glasses [175-190]. These studies are difficult to interpret because of the inhomogeneity of the sample. Simulations of water in a cylindrical cavity inside a block of hydrophilic Vycor glass have recently been performed [24,191,192] to facilitate the analysis of experimental results. Water molecules interact with Vycor atoms, using an empirical potential model which consists of (12-6) Lennard-Jones and Coulomb interactions. All atoms in the Vycor block are immobile. For details see Ref. 191. We have simulated samples at room temperature, which are filled with water to between 19 and 96 percent of the maximum possible amount. Because of the hydrophilicity of the glass, water molecules cover the surface already in nearly empty pores no molecules are found in the pore center in this case, although the density distribution is rather wide. When the amount of water increases, the center of the pore fills. Only in the case of 96 percent filling, a continuous aqueous phase without a cavity in the center of the pore is observed. 

PMMA, on the unmodified porous glass and silica gel, and the universal calibration curves for polystyrenes and poly(methyl methacrylates) did not coincide (10,12,19). 

The other type of porous glass that has cylindrical pores is mesoporous silicate (MPS) (14,15). The advantage of MPS is in its feasibility to make a small pore diameter, typically below 10 nm. A columnar-phase liquid crystal, formed from surfactant molecules with a long alkyl chain tail and silicate molecules, is calcined to remove hydrocarbons. At the end, a hexagonal array of straight and uniform cylindrical holes is created in a crystalline order. MPS is not available commercially either. 

As with organic solvents, proteins are not soluble in most of the ionic liquids when they are used as pure solvent. As a result, the enzyme is either applied in immobilized form, coupled to a support, or as a suspension in its native form. For production processes, the majority of enzymes are used as immobilized catalysts in order to facilitate handling and to improve their operational stability [24—26]. As support, either inorganic materials such as porous glass or different organic polymers are used [27]. These heterogeneous catalyst particles are subject to internal and external... 

The materials originally used as stationary phases for GPC were the xerogels of the polyacrylamide (Bio-Gel) and cross-linked dextran (Sephadex) type. However, these semi-rigid gels are unable to withstand the high pressures used in HPLC, and modern stationary phases consist of microparticles of styrene-divinylbenzene copolymers (Ultrastyragel, manufactured by Waters Associates), silica, or porous glass. 

The microfiber glass separators have to fill the space between the electrodes completely the backweb thickness, is thus identical to the total thickness. Due to the high compressibility of such porous glass mats, a standard measuring pressure of 2 kPa or 10 kPa (BCI method) is generally used during assembly they are compressed... 

Chromatographic Packings Prepared by Physical Adsorption of Polymers on Silica or Porous Glass... 

In 1971, Hiatt et al. found that polyethylene oxide (PEO) of molecular weight about 100000 prevented the adsorption of rabies virus to porous glass with an average pore diameter of 1250 A. The support was modified by passage of one void volume of 0.4% solution of the polymer in water, followed by 5 or more volumes of distilled water or buffered salt solution. The virus was effectively purified from the admixtures of brain tissue fluid by means of size-exclusion chromatography on the modified glass column [28]. 

Fig. 1. Preparative separation of the components of the concentrated culture fluid on the PVT-porous glass column. (/) fraction of purified rotaviruses, (2, 3) other components of the culture fluid [32]...

Fig. 5. Preparative separation of the components of concentrated culture fluid on the porous glass chemically modified by the copolymer of N-VP and N-HEAA. 30 ml of concentrated culture fluid was applied to the column (2.3x90 cm) equilibrated with 0.01 mol/1 phosphate buffer, pH 7.4 and eluted with this buffer at flow rate 300 ml/h. (1) — fraction of purified rotavirus, (2, 3) — other components of the culture fluid [51]...

Porous glass (PG) modified with covalently adsorbed poly(p-nitrophenyl acrylate), as described in Sect. 4.1, turned out to be a highly suitable carrier for immobilization of various biospecific ligands and enzymes. When the residual active ester groups of the carrier were blocked by ethanolamine, the immobilized ligands when bound to the solid support via hydrophilic and flexible poly(2-hydroxyethyl acrylamide). The effective biospecific binding provided by the ligands... 

Changes in relative peak intensity and marginal line shifts have been observed for benzene adsorbed on porous glass (26). More significantly, infrared spectroscopic evidence had been found in the appearance of inactive fundamentals for the lowering of molecular symmetry of benzene on adsorption on zeolites (47). 

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