Substrate potential

Metal injection mol ding (MIM) holds great promise for producing complex shapes in large quantities. Spray forming, a single-step gas atomization and deposition process, produces near-net shape products. In this process droplets of molten metal are coUected and soHdifted onto a substrate. Potential appHcations include tool steel end mills, superalloy tubes, and aerospace turbine disks (6,7). 

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Figure 7. Tunneling spectra acquired at the two distinct locations marked in Figure 6A. The dashed curve was taken right above CgHs ring and the solid ones next to the ring. The bias refers to the substrate potential. The arrows indicate conductivity peaks, which precisely coincide for both spectra. (Reprinted with permission from Ref [23], 2003, American Chemical Society.)...

There are several ways to model the substrate. The simplest would be to consider the substrate as a structureless attractive wall. However, since we want the polymer molecules to be parallel to each other on the substrate, we impose a directional force. In 2D crystallization, we took the substrate structure into account by use of the continuous substrate potential t/2, a sort of mean field potential that restricts the molecular motion on the substrate [20] ... 

The substrate potential restricts the motion along the x-axis only, and it exerts no hindrance to the motion along the y-axis. The period X = 0.433 nm is... 

Following the treatment by Steele, we express the substrate potential as a Fourier series,... 

In our study of 2D crystallization, we assumed that the two dimensional substrate potential is only a function of x as in Eq. 4. Here again we take the... 

Fed-batch cultures differ from batch cultures by the possibility of additional input of the main substrate. Potentially, fed-batch cultures are very promising since in these cultures the possibility to prolong a hydrogen production phase with approximately constant rate exists. Unfortunately publications reporting the application of this cultivation regime for hydrogen production systems are not known to us. 

The major categories of substrates potentially suitable for composting are the following ... 

Figure 2 Illustration of an instability in the Prandtl-Tomlinson model. The sum of the substrate potential and the elastic energy of the spring is shown at various instances in time. The energy difference between the initial and the final point of the thick line will be the dissipated energy when temperature and sliding velocities are very small.

The essential properties of incommensurate modulated structures can be studied within a simple one-dimensional model, the well-known Frenkel-Kontorova model . The competing interactions between the substrate potential and the lateral adatom interactions are modeled by a chain of adatoms, coupled with harmonic springs of force constant K, placed in a cosine substrate potential of amplitude V and periodicity b (see Fig. 27). The microscopic energy of this model is ... 

Calculation of the Forces Susceptible to be Exerted on a Fine Particle Deposited ON A Substrate (Case of Spherical Silicon Nitride Particles in Water at Room Temperature, Substrate Potential — 300V)... 

The X-ray crystal structure of the inorganic phosphate (an inhibitor) complex of alkaline phosphatase from E. coli (9) showed that the active center consists of a Zn2Mg(or Zn) assembly, where the two zinc(II) atoms are 3.94 A apart and bridged by the bidentate phosphate (which suggests a phosphomonoester substrate potentially interacting with two zinc(II), as depicted in Fig. 2), and the Mg (or the third Zn) is linked to one atom of the zinc pair by an aspartate residue at a distance... 

A unique aspect of using protein substrates is that the substrates themselves are so complex. Even a relatively small protein, having say 100 amino acids, has 99 potentially susceptible peptide bonds—and each of these bonds is expected to be unique. This hypothetical protein thus has 99 structurally unique substrates (potential sites for catalysis). The environment surrounding each of the protein s peptide bonds will be dependent on the tertiary structure of the protein, so one must consider, for example, native... 

The empirical potentials can also be used to calculate the frequencies of the surface vibratory modes. Two different methods have been employed (26). In the first case, the molecule-substrate force constants introduced in the model described above are calculated and then used to solve the normal mode problem as before. In the second method, the molecule is treated as a rigid body, since distortions of the molecule induced by adsorption are calculated to be small. The frequencies of the surface vibratory modes are computed from the curvature of the molecule-substrate potential as the rigid molecule is rocked about its two symmetry... 

Fig. 51.4. Normalized feedback current-distance curves obtained with a 25 pm Pt UME in ImM ferrocene methanol in 0.1M Na2S04. The substrate potential was varied to control the feedback effect (1) 150 mV, (2) 100 mV, (3) 50 mV, (4) OmV, (5) —50 mV, (6) —100 mV, (7) —150 mV and (8) —200 mV vs. Ag/AgCl reference electrode. (9) and (10) are the limiting curves for conductor and insulator substrate, respectively. The tip was held at 0.4 V where the oxidation was diffusion-controlled.

Ordered strain relief patterns with a large period are most often formed on hexagonally close-packed surfaces since they have a small corrugation of the substrate potential, and the overlayer is relatively stiff since it is... 

Many SECM experiments require biasing the substrate. A bipotentiostat in Fig. 1 is used to control both the tip and substrate potentials. Unless transient measurements are made, the response of the bipotentiostat does not have to be fast. More importantly, it should be capable of measuring a broad range of current responses a picoamp scale (or even sub-pA) tip current and a much higher current at a macroscopic substrate. For this reason, it is convenient to have several choices of preamplifiers/current-to-voltage transducers. 

At constant L, Eq. (22) describes a quasireversible steady-state tip voltammogram [if kinetics is fast, k —> oo, and Eq. (22) reduces to one for a Nernstian tip voltammogram]. Such a curve can be obtained by scanning the potential of the tip while the substrate potential is held constant. Finite element simulations in Ref. [51] showed that Eq. (22) is more accurate than two somewhat similar expressions derived earlier [66]. 

The SECM can be used to measure the ET kinetics either at the tip or at the substrate electrode. In the former case, the tip is positioned in a close proximity of a conductive substrate (d < a). The substrate potential is kept at a constant and sufficiently positive (or negative) value to ensure the diffusion-controlled regeneration of the mediator at its surface. The tip potential is swept linearly to obtain a steady-state voltammogram. The kinetic parameters (k°, a) and the formal potential value can be obtained by fitting such a voltammogram to the theory [Eq. (22)]. A high value of the mass transfer coefficient (m) is achieved under steady-state conditions when d rate constants (k° > 1 cm-1 s) were measured with micrometersized SECM tips [92-94]. 

To probe ET kinetics at the conductive substrate surface, the tip is held at a potential where the reaction is diffusion controlled, and the approach curves are recorded for different substrate potentials. The first experiment of this kind was reported by Wipf and Bard who measured the rate of irreversible oxidation of Fe2+ at the glassy carbon (GC) electrode [95]. In the feedback mode, Fe3+, was reduced at the carbon fiber tip in a 1 M H2S04 solution, and Fe2+ was oxidized at the GC substrate... 

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