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Many platiag plants use electrocleaners both anodicaHy and cathodicaHy through the use of reversing switches or ia two separate tanks. Not all anionic surfactants do well ia cathodic cleaning. Proprietary electrocleaners are commonly used and highly recommended. 

All methods of IR-free technique involve finally switching-off and reverse switching techniques. In these are included bridge methods [5, 8, 9], ac methods, and impulse methods [10, 11]. All of these have no practical significance. Finally, measurement methods are also derived from Eq. (3-25) with the help of varying potential gradients on the soil surface, so that x is replaced by ... 

The switching-off method for 7/ -free potential measurement is, according to the data in Fig. 3-5, subject to error with lead-sheathed cables. For a rough survey, measurements of potential can be used to set up and control the cathodic protection. This means that no information can be gathered on the complete corrosion protection, but only on the protection current entry and the elimination of cell activity from contacts with foreign cathodic structures. The reverse switching method in Section 3.3.1 can be used to obtain an accurate potential measurement. Rest and protection potentials for buried cables are listed in Table 13-1 as an appendix to Section 2.4. The protection potential region lies within U[[Pg.326]

Finally, the control unit, apart from controlling voltage, has a magnetic polarity reversal switch operated by a variable timer, usually set to actuate every minute that cleverly ensures no scale can build up inside the unit, making the entire system maintenance free. ... 

In the previous sections it was demonstrated that the stimulus-responsive behavior of ELP was transferred to ELP fusion proteins and even to non-covalently bound moieties, such as proteins, plasmids, and heavy metals, mostly for biomedical and biotechnological applications. The ability of ELPs to reversibly switch their polarity is also of great interest for the development of stimulus-responsive materials. Many approaches have therefore recently been undertaken to integrate ELPs with, for example, polymers, particles, and surfaces. 

Metal nanotube membranes with electrochemically suitable ion-transport selectivity, which can be reversibly switched between cation-permeable and anion-permselective states, have been reported. These membranes can be viewed as universal ion-exchange membranes. Gold nanotube molecular filtration membranes have been made for the separation of small molecules (< 400 Da) on the basis of molecular size, eg. separation of pyridine from quinine (Jirage and Martin, 1999). 

The incorporation of photoactive components into the molecular structure, which allows reversible switching of the output physical properties, such as light or redox potential, by an... 

Nickel hexacyanoferrate (NiHCF) films can be prepared by electrochemical oxidation of nickel electrodes in the presence of hexacyanoferrate(III) ions,141 or by voltammetric cycling of inert substrate electrodes in solutions containing nickel(II) and hexacyanoferrate(III) ions.142 NiHCF films do not possess low-energy intervalent CT bands, however, when deposited on ITO they are observed to reversibly switch from yellow to colorless on electroreduction.143... 

Figure 16.5 Reversible switching of amphiphilic azobenzene modified poly(propylene imine) dendrimer on quartz, and at the air-water interface (inset) [74]...

Paulusse JMJ, van Beek DJM, Sijbesma RP. Reversible switching of the sol-gel transition with ultrasound in rhodium(I) and iridium(I) coordination networks. J Am Chem Soc 2007 129 2392-2397. 

Aggeli A, BeU M, Carrick LM, Eishwick CWG, Harding R, Mawer PJ, Radford SE, Strong AE, Boden N. pH as a trigger of peptide j8-sheet seU-assembly and reversible switching between nematic and isotropic phases. J Am Chem Soc 2003 125 9619-9628. 

Here r is the radius of curvature of the rays in the magnetic chamber, and in this work was 5 cm. U3, U4, and the current through the field coils are equipped with double-throw reversing switches, so that negative as well as positive ions could be studied. 

TTF-based D-A systems have been extensively used in recent years to play around photoinduced electron transfer processes. Typically, when an electron acceptor moiety that emits fluorescence intrinsically is linked to TTF (D), the fluorescence due to the A moiety may be quenched because of a photoinduced electron transfer process (Scheme 15.1). Accordingly, these molecular systems are potentially interesting for photovoltaic studies. For instance, efficient photoinduced electron transfer and charge separation were reported for TTF-fullerene dyads.6,7 An important added value provided by TTF relies on the redox behavior of this unit that can be reversibly oxidized according to two successive redox steps. Therefore, such TTF-A assemblies allow an efficient entry to redox fluorescence switches, for which the fluorescent state of the fluorophore A can be reversibly switched on upon oxidation of the TTF unit. 

Nicotinamide is an important redox moiety in biological system. The nicotin-amide-perylene diimide dyad 23 can work as a redox-responsive fluorescence switch.33 Dyad 23, in which nicotinamide is on the oxidation state, exhibits strong fluorescence. However, it becomes nonfluorescent when nicotinamide is reduced due to the electron transfer from the reduced nicotinamide to the photoexcited perylene diimide. The fluorescence of dyad 23 can be reversibly switched off and on chemically by successive reduction with NaBH3CN and oxidation with tetrachlorobenzoquinone and switched electrochemically over 10 cycles without significant degradation. 

This experiment demonstrates that when manipulated by femtosecond pulses, the CN-DHA derivative possesses the remarkable property of multimode switching a thermal switch between the VHF-cis and DHA via the VHF-trans conformation and an ultrafast photo-reversible switch between the DHA and VHF-cis conformers. 

Electrochemical switching of the emission of a metal complex occurs in a system in which a luminescent (tris-bipyridine)ruthenium(ll) centre is linked to a quinone unit. Interconversion of the redox couple 124-125 allows the reversible switching... 

The second type of mechanism offers reversible switching without space-consuming transfer processes. These dyes are electrocyclically reacting dyes, where the transition from one form to another form happens by electron shift or proton transfer, without the rearrangement of bulky molecule segments. Fulgides have been proposed for this purpose. Fulgides are bis (methylene) amber acid anhydrides (130), eg,... 

These ion mobilities are very small, so that only very thin films can be reversibly switched between the doped and undoped states in a reasonable time scale. In contrast, application of polypyrrole as an electrode usually involves thicker films to prevent complete undoping during cycling. 

The mechanism of the catalytic cycle is outlined in Scheme 1.37 [11]. It involves the formation of a reactive 16-electron tricarbonyliron species by coordination of allyl alcohol to pentacarbonyliron and sequential loss of two carbon monoxide ligands. Oxidative addition to a Jt-allyl hydride complex with iron in the oxidation state +2, followed by reductive elimination, affords an alkene-tricarbonyliron complex. As a result of the [1, 3]-hydride shift the allyl alcohol has been converted to an enol, which is released and the catalytically active tricarbonyliron species is regenerated. This example demonstrates that oxidation and reduction steps can be merged to a one-pot procedure by transferring them into oxidative addition and reductive elimination using the transition metal as a reversible switch. Recently, this reaction has been integrated into a tandem isomerization-aldolization reaction which was applied to the synthesis of indanones and indenones [81] and for the transformation of vinylic furanoses into cydopentenones [82]. 

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