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Spherical rollers were machined from AISI 52100 steel, hardened to a Rockwell hardness of Rc 60 and manually polished with diamond paste to RMS surface roughness of 5 nm. Two glass disks with a different thickness of the silica spacer layer are used. For thin film colorimetric interferometry, a spacer layer about 190 nm thick is employed whereas FECO interferometry requires a thicker spacer layer, approximately 500 nm. In both cases, the layer was deposited by the reactive electron beam evaporation process and it covers the entire underside of the glass disk with the exception of a narrow radial strip. The refractive index of the spacer layer was determined by reflection spectroscopy and its value for a wavelength of 550 nm is 1.47. 

Coordination interactions are not the only way to use self-assembly to produce closed, capsular systems capable of binding guest species in solution. Work by Julius Rebek Jr (Scripps, USA)43 has shown that multiple hydrogen-bonding interactions, because of their relatively weak, but directional, nature, are ideal for the strict self-assembly of closed spherical molecules and capsules. For example, component 10.49 consists of two intrinsically curved diphenylglycoluril units linked by a durene-based (1,2,4,5-tetramethyl benzene-based) spacer. In both solution and in the solid state, 10.49 self-assembles spontaneously to produce the tennis ball-shaped dimer (10.49)2 shown in Figure 10.43. The formation of the dimer has been observed by ... 

Now some detail—and we will discuss the Merrifield version of peptide synthesis. Spherical cross-linked polystyrene beads of about 50 pm in diameter are used and attached to various spacers of which the simplest is just a CH2 group from the chloromethylated polystyrene we have just discussed. The caesium (Cs) salt of the amino acid is used to displace the chloride as it is a better nucleophile than the Na or K salts. A better alternative is Pam (shown in the margin). It can be used as the nucleophile to displace the chloride first. The amino acid is then added after purification. No chloromethyl groups can remain on the polymer with this spacer. 

Size Spherical gold/silver alloy nanoparticles, surrounded by a silica spacer shell, to which is attached a fluorescent ruthenium dye, have been studied. The... 

For many sequences it is often better to have a uniform rf field over the sample. This can be achieved by decreasing the volume occupied by the sample within the rotor, and spacers can be used. In CRAMPS experiments spacers with spherical cavities often give... 

The preparation and use of two new experimental resins was described by Morris and Fritz [16]. Both resins were prepared by simple Friedel-Crafts addition reactions. One has the carboxyl group attached to the benzene ring of a spherical polystyrene-divinylbenzene (PS-DVB) resin via a spacer arm of three carbon atoms. The carboxyl group is attached directly to the benzene ring in the other resin. Excellent ion chromatographic separations of metal ions are possible using these resins in conjunction with any of several complexing eluents. 

Trimeric and oligomeric surfactants have also been prepared (Zana, 1995 Sumida, 1998 In, 2000 Onitsuka, 2001). Their CMC values are even smaller than those of the analogous geminis. As the number of hydrophobic groups per molecule increases for gemini quaternary C12 ammonium compounds with polymethylene -(CH2) j spacers, their surface layers become more dense, their micellar microviscosity increases, and their micellar shape changes from spherical to wormlike, to... 

Giddings and co-workers [53,54] designed the FFFF channel in a classical manner, i.e., using two planparallel semi-permeable membranes, and a thin (0.38 mm) spacer into which the shape of the channel was cut. They developed theoretical bases of FFFF and fractionated successfully a series of monodisperse spherical PS latex and a number of proteins. They reached an excellent agreement between the theoretical assumptions of the retention and the experimental results. As with other FFF subtechniques, the agreement between the theoretical and the experimental characteristics of dispersion was poorer. The problem further requires a more extensive study. 

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