Surface resistivities factors affecting

For liquid-phase catalytic or enzymatic reactions, catalysts or enzymes are used as homogeneous solutes in the hquid, or as sohd particles suspended in the hquid phase. In the latter case, (i) the particles per se may be catalysts (ii) the catalysts or enzymes are uniformly distributed within inert particles or (hi) the catalysts or enzymes exist at the surface of pores, inside the particles. In such heterogeneous catalytic or enzymatic systems, a variety of factors that include the mass transfer of reactants and products, heat effects accompanying the reactions, and/or some surface phenomena, may affect the apparent reaction rates. For example, in situation (iii) above, the reactants must move to the catalytic reaction sites within catalyst particles by various mechanisms of diffusion through the pores. In general, the apparent rates of reactions with catalyst or enzymatic particles are lower than the intrinsic reaction rates this is due to the various mass transfer resistances, as is discussed below. 

It is shown that the adhesion of a resist to a substrate depends upon the chemical composition of the resist, the surface characteristics of the substrate, and the various processing steps. How photoresist adhesion is Influenced by these materials and processing parameters is analyzed. It is emphasized that certain surface treatments can Influence the photoresist adhesion and mechanical adhesion (in terms of peel, pull, scratch, etc.) in different ways, and commonly used techniques to Improve mechanical adhesion of films and coatings may be fruitless or even harmful so far as photoresist adhesion is concerned. By a proper understanding of the factors affecting photoresist adhesion, one should be able to control it. 

Mechanically, the tissue is anisotropic and Inhomogenous, its moduli vary with direction and depth from the surface (10,11). Its principal mechanism for attaining stress relaxation, at strains above a critically small strain, is by exuding interstitial fluid (12). Its stress relaxation rates are therefore not only functions of the viscoelastic properties of its macromolecular network, but also the frictional resistances to fluid transport in and out of the tissue. Factors affecting fluid exudation and imbibition therefore necessarily affect the tissue s wear resistance. 

Abrasion Resistance. Abrasion is the wearing of material from a rubber surface due to the action of an abrasive surface in contact with and moving with respect to the rubber surface. It is measured under a specified load, at a specified sp d and type of abrasive surface. Laboratory tests may not predict service life, because the many and complex factors affecting abrasion vary greatly from application to application. However, laboratory tests are useful for quality control of rubber products intended for rough service. 

Degradability will be affected by such factors as the surface area available for microbial attack and the protective action of other constituents as well as the physical and chemical nature of the protein. Claims have been made that the solubility of a protein is correlated with ease of breakdown, but these do not survive critical examination. Thus, casein, which is readily degraded in the rumen, is not readily soluble whereas albumin, which is resistant to breakdown, is readily soluble. It has been suggested that a major factor affecting degradability is the amino acid sequence within the protein molecule. If this is so, then the nature of the microbially produced rumen peptidases is of considerable importance and it seems doubtful whether any simple laboratory test for degradability is possible. 

The discussion of heat durability in this section should make clear that this is a complex phenomenon. Embrittlement, retropolymerization, thermoplasticity, and the loss of adhesion are all factors affecting the adhesive s performance on metal surfaces. Based on the published state of the art, optimum cyanoacrylate heat durability could be achieved using a combination of a heat-resistant adhesion promoter, a crosslinking agent, and a plasticizer. The heat durability promoters discussed in this section are summarized in Table XI. 

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