Recent improvements

These concern essentially the negative electrode and the electrolyte. 

The negative electrode can present good characteristics if two essential conditions are fulfilled a reversible exchange of protons with the electrolyte, and a potential as negative as that of zinc. This is obtained by adding, to the composite electrode (metal and electrolyte grains), a third component (Fig. 37.3) able to exchange metallic cations with the metal, and protons with the electrolyte. 

When using a solid hydrated electrolyte, such an electrode component will be advantageously hydrated too for instance, a neutral or weakly acidic compound (XY, nH20) in which M can be anodically inserted while ions are extracted towards the electrolyte. The overall anodic 

It is clear that the electrochemical capacity of this composite electrode depends on its water content. When using zinc as metal and HUP as electrolyte, the hydrated sodium phosphate NaaPO. I2H2O is very well adapted for the insertion of zinc cations, but the results are better if hydrated zinc sulphate is added to this mixture. The potential of this electrode is —0.75 V versus Hj. 

In order to obtain a complete battery, three layers (negative mixture powder, electrolyte powder, positive mixture powder) are pressed together 

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W. T. BoUeter, "Recent Improvements in the Continuous TNT Manufacturing Process," in Symposium on Processing Propellants, Explosives, and IngreSents, ADPA, Washington, D.C., 1977, p. 2.4-1. 

Lighting. An important appHcation of clear fused quartz is as envelop material for mercury vapor lamps (228). In addition to resistance to deformation at operating temperatures and pressures, fused quartz offers ultraviolet transmission to permit color correction. Color is corrected by coating the iaside of the outer envelope of the mercury vapor lamp with phosphor (see Luminescent materials). Ultraviolet light from the arc passes through the fused quartz envelope and excites the phosphor, produciag a color nearer the red end of the spectmm (229). A more recent improvement is the iacorporation of metal haHdes ia the lamp (230,231). 

Until relatively recent improvements in instrumentation, the acquisition of NMR natural abundance spectra was virtually impossible even today, N-enriched samples are highly desirable. Spectra are complicated because both N- H and coupling occurs ... 

Emerging Membrane Control Technologies The recent improvements in membrane technology have spawned several potentially commercial membrane filtration uses. 

Although comparative modeling is the most accurate modeling approach, it is limited by its absolute need for a related template structure. For more than half of the proteins and two-thirds of domains, a suitable template structure cannot be detected or is not yet known [9,11]. In those cases where no useful template is available, the ab initio methods are the only alternative. These methods are currently limited to small proteins and at best result only in coarse models with an RMSD error for the atoms that is greater than 4 A. However, one of the most impressive recent improvements in the field of protein structure modeling has occurred in ab initio prediction [155-157]. 

Because they can rapidly bond a wide variety of substrates and because of their their recent improvements in performance, cyanoacrylate instant adhesives have found uses in a wide variety of industrial and consumer applications. 

Recent improvements in the total synthesis of steroids which give as the first tetracyclic products 19-norsteroids bearing a hydroxyl or keto group at C-17 have revived interest in the conversion of androstanes to pregnanes. 

Saa = -esB = e was chosen, and an effective coordination number Zcir = 2.5 occurred ) Thus one finds that the coefficient in the relation T N ,r is somewhat smaller than expected from Eq. (3), and in addition there is a "chain end"-correction. However, an integral equation theoryyielded Tc cc Vn, and th simulations showed that this result clearly is incorrect. More recent improved versions of integral equation theories now yield Tc N as well but still the theoretical understanding of the prefactor in this relation is limited. 

Figure 23. New japanese alkaline cells using expanded graphite and other recent improvement...

With OH and SH, the nucleophilic substitution of Cl has been reported. Thus, with NaOH, there is a report of successful nucleophilic substitution in 50% aq. acetone at room temperature to give the phenol complex in 36% yield. The latter is then spontaneously deprotonated to give the cyclohexadienyl complex (Eq. (24)). An identical reaction was carried out using NaSH in MeCN (50% yield) to give the thiophenol complex which was deprotonated [72] Eq. (25). These reactions would be especially valuable because direct synthesis of the phenol or thiophenol complexes from ferrocene is not possible due to the strong interaction between the heteroatom and A1C13 [11, 19]. Recent improvement and use of this reaction were achieved [88],... 

A convenient route to both saturated and unsaturated acylsilanes lies in the hydroboration-oxidation of alkynylsilanes (Chapter 7). Recent improvements (6) to this method involve the use of the borane-dimethyl sulphide complex for hydroboration, and of anhydrous trimethylamine A-oxide for the oxidation of the intermediate vinyl boranes. 

A highlight in the application of RCM methodology in natural product synthesis is Hirama s total synthesis of ciguatoxin CTX3C (183) [90], including the more recent improved protective group strategy, as depicted in Scheme 34 [90b]. The structure of 183 spans more than 3 nm and is characterized by 12 six- to nine-membered trans-fused cyclic ethers and a spiroannulated terminal tetra-... 

Section II describes recent improvements in methodology that have significantly improved the accuracy of calculations on small metal clusters. Section III describes the calculation of some accurate dimer and trimer potentials, and the insight they give into the nature of metal chemistry. Section IV reviews the work on small metal clusters and discusses how the ab initio and parameterized model approaches are interfaced. Section V contains our conclusions. 

We have discussed our theoretical calculations on metals ranging from very accurate ab initio studies of diatomic and triatomic systems to model studies of larger clusters. Recent improvements in the accuracy to which we can represent both the one-particle and n-particle spaces has significantly improved the reliability of theoretical calculations on small molecules. For example, we are able to predict definitively that AI2 has a Hu ground state even though the state lies within 200 cm . Calculations on clusters indicate that their geometry varies dramatically with cluster size, and that rather large clusters are required before the bulk structure becomes optimal. Since clusters are more... 

In 1996, Fu et al. reported the S3mthesis of the planar chiral heterocycles 64, formally DMAP fused with a ferrocene core [82]. While the original synthesis provided racemic 64a in only 2% overall yield requiring a subsequent resolution by preparative HPLC on a chiral stationary phase, a recently improved synthesis furnished the racemic complexes 64 in 32-40% yield over seven steps. A subsequent resolution with di-p-toluoyltartaric or dibenzoyltartaric acid gave access to the enantiomers with >99% ee (28 14% yield for each isomer in this step) [83]. 

Recent Improvements in the Potentiometric Method Applied to Sparingly Soluble Drugs... 

The most recent improvements in Pt catalyst utilization U by optimization of catalyst layer composition and stmcture have led to catalyst utilizations as high as 80%, or more, determined as the ratio between measured ORR current per geometric square centimeter of electrode area and the current expected from the total measured Pt surface area per geometric square centimeter of the electrode, i.e.,... 

For detection, MS is rapidly becoming the method of choice for multiclass, multiresidue analysis owing to its many advantages, recent improvements in technology, and availability of cost-effective commercial instrumentation. Detection systems in general are continually being improved, and in combination with the improvements in chromatographic instruments and techniques, an exceptionally low limit of detection (LOD) is possible for pesticide residues. 

Farrand, B. and Emery, J., Recent Improvements in the Quality of Steel Slag Aggregate, paper prepared for presentation at 1995 annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 1995. 

We report here the results of our recent studies of poly(alkyl/arylphosphazenes) with particular emphasis on the following areas (1) the overall scope of, and recent improvements in, the condensation polymerization method (2) the characterization of a representative series of these polymers by dilute solution techniques (viscosity, membrane osmometry, light scattering, and size exclusion chromatography), thermal analysis (TGA and DSC), NMR spectroscopy, and X-ray diffraction (3) the preparation and preliminary thermolysis reactions of new, functionalized phosphoranimine monomers and (4) the mechanism of the polymerization reaction. 

The worst operating condition in a common design practice consists of overly conservative assumptions on the hot-channel input. These assumptions must be realistically evaluated in a subchannel analysis by the help of in-core instrumentation measurements. In the early subchannel analysis codes, the core inlet flow conditions and the axial power distribution were preselected off-line, and the most conservative values were used as inputs to the code calculations. In more recent, improved codes, the operating margin is calculated on-line, and the hot-channel power distributions are calculated by using ex-core neutron detector signals for core control. Thus the state parameters (e.g., core power, core inlet temper-... 

The details of the process by which the reaction is initiated and propagated in each case have been discussed many times but are still far from being completely understood. It is generally agreed that the presence of various structural features in the polymer, which occur to different extents depending on the polymerization conditions, are important particularly since recent improvements in analytical techniques have made it easier to identify them and quantify their low concentration levels with greater certainty. Although deterioration of any of the physical or mechanical properties of PVC is undesirable much of... 

We shall deal in this lecture with recent improvements in the elastomers synthesis, that should be able to cope with the above mentioned requirements, without resorting to important investments for new plants or to cumbersome feedstocks. The improvement of the elastomer synthesis relies upon new catalytic systems that allow a control of elastomer tacticity in order to achieve a strain induced crystallization, and suitable monomer combinations in order to minimize the hysteresis loss of the elastomer in a wide range of temperatures and frequencies. 

This review describes recent improvements in the measurement of the passive transport of molecules across artificial phospholipid membranes anchored inside... 

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