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Figure 6.1 Attack of the proplyds A Hubble Space Telescope close-up of the Orion Nebula reveals disks of dust and gas surrounding newly formed stars. These fuzzy blobs, called proplyds, may be infant solar systems in the process of formation. This chunk of the sky spans about 0.14 light-years. (Image courtesy of Charles Robert O Dell of Vanderbilt University and NASA.)...

The distinction now being emphasized between a-terms and star-terms was shown diagrammatically in Figure 15.3b with black and white arrows. It is a distinction easy to make in (A, B)X compounds and less easy to make in simple binary materials. One purpose of this review chapter is to identify aspects that are not yet fully worked out, that are currently fuzzy, and binary materials such as alloys are one such aspect. Clearly, to some extent binary alloy behavior can be described as joint behavior with some interdiffusive... 

When a premixed solution of DBA-OC10,10 with hexakis(phenylethynyl)benzene HPEB (about 2.5 equivalent excess) whose molecular size would fit the pore size formed on the surface by DBA-OC10,10 was subjected to STM observations, two types of pores were visualized one containing a clear star-shaped feature ascribed to immobilized HPEB and the other with a fuzzy feature, most likely due to mobile HPEB (Figure 6.12). In addition, a small number of vacant pores were also observed. 

Figure 8.1 Adaptive optics in astronomy, (a) The image of a star appears as a fuzzy blob in a telescope due to the wavefront aberrations caused by turbulence in the atmosphere, (b) If a deformable mirror is used to correct the image of the star to make it back into a point of Ught, a nearby galaxy with a more complex structure will also be corrected, (c) The wavefront distortions can be measured with a wavefront sensor. The wavefront distortions from the guide star are fed back through a control system to deform the adaptive mirror to a shape that is conjugate to the distorted wavefront, correcting the reflected wavefront of the guide star back into a plane wave. (Credit Claire Max, Center for Adaptive Optics.) [7],...

Figure 12.17 Low-shear viscosity of (a) 32-arm star polymers having M of 644 kDa (o) and 3 MDa (0), (b) 64-arm fuzzy star polymers having M of 2.6 (O) and 3.3 MDa ( ) showing transitions at a nominal volume fraction near 0.5, based on measurements of Roovers(43).

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