Transition temperatures, surface

The ability of XPD and AED to measure the short-range order of materials on a very short time scale opens the door for surface order—disorder transition studies, such as the surface solid-to- liquid transition temperature, as has already been done for Pb and Ge. In the caseofbulkGe, a melting temperature of 1210 K was found. While monitoring core-level XPD photoelectron azimuthal scans as a function of increasing temperature, the surface was found to show an order—disorder temperature 160° below that of the bulk. 

Figure 1. (a) Equilibrium surface atom fractions of Bi and Ni, on the (111) surface, for a Pb-5at%Bi-0.04at%Ni alloy, as a function of temperature, after ref 14. The vertical line indicates the transition temperature, (b) Surface excess free energy ofthe (111) surface, vs. temperature, corresponding to (a), afterref 14. (c) Same as (a), comparing the surface excess free energies of 111, 100 and 110 afterref 17. 

There are different criterion of how to classify solid-solid interfaces. One is the sharpness of the boundary. It could be abrupt on an atomic scale as, for example, in III-IV semiconductor heterostructures prepared by molecular beam epitaxy. In contrast, interdiffusion can create broad transitions. Surface reactions can lead to the formation of a thin layer of a new compound. The interfacial structure and composition will therefore depend on temperature, diffusion coefficient, miscibility, and reactivity of the components. Another criterion is the crystallinity of the interface. The interface may be crystalline-crystalline, crystalline-amorphous, or completely amorphous. Even when both solids are crystalline, the interface may be disturbed and exhibit a high density of defects. 

In recent years, cyclic polymers (also referred to as polymer rings or macrocycles) became easier to prepare. By a number of different approaches and advances in cyclization techniques, a wide range of novel cyclic polymers have been prepared in good yields [10]. In contrast to linear polymers, cyclic polymers are topologically distinct species, and all monomer units of cyclic polymers are chemically and physically equivalent. This equivalence is due to the fact that their properties are not affected by the nature of the end groups, since cyclic polymers have no chain ends. They include the radius of gyration, intrinsic viscosity, translational friction coefficient, critical solution temperature, refractive index, density, dipole moment, glass transition temperature, and surface property [11]. 

Since at low temperature the surface emission is well resolved from the bulk emission, and transition back to the surface is impossible, the excitation spectrum of the surface emission reveals only surface-state structures. This technique allows one to discriminate the surface states which, in other kinds of experiment, are masked by the bulk states. 

Air at a temperature of 20°C flows at a velocity of 100 m/s over a wide flat plate that is aligned with the flow. The surface of the plate is maintained at a uniform wall temperature. Plot the variation of the distances from the leading edge of the plate at which transition to turbulence begins and when transition is complete against surface temperature for surface temperatures between 20° C and 100°C. 

In contrast to standard cooling, which keeps the mold temperature at a certain temperature below transition temperature, the surface of the mold is heated up with the help of an inductive heating almost to the melt temperature in order to gain a lower melt viscosity during filling. Compressed air causes problems. So the air in the mold must be evacuated by a vacuum pump. This is necessary to provide complete part filling as well as to prevent the burning of plastic by the compressed, hot air at the bottom of the cavity. 

Fig. 5. Arrhenius plot for a catalysed reaction showing the transition between diffusion control at high temperatures and surface control at low temperatures.

The characteristic rotational temperatures 0rot for H2, HD, and D2 are 84.8, 63.8, and 42.6°K, respectively. The symmetry of H2 and D2 require that for optical transitions, AJ = 2, while for HD, AJ = 1. At room temperature, normal hydrogen -H2 is composed of 25% para-H2 (,J even) and 75% ortho-H2 (J odd), while at lower temperatures, equilibrium hydrogen contains an increasing proportion of para-H2. These rotational species do not change form in gaseous collisions, so that it is possible to select nearly pure p-H2 (e.g., boil-off from liquid H2) and perform measurements on it and its mixtures with n-H2 over a range of temperatures, before surface catalysis... 

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Liquid viscosity near glass transition temperature. Rpt. Surface Sci. 2, 51 (1962). 

Microphase separation and domain formation in block copolymers, which are the result of incompatibility of block chains, have been studied extensively (1,2). In addition to being incompatible, block chains in a copolymer generally have different thermal transition temperatures. The surface tensions of molten block chains also differ. When a crystalline block chain is incorporated into a block copolymer, it is expected that crystallization of the crystalline block chain causes considerable change in resultant morphology. Surface properties of a block copolymer and of its blend with a homopolymer should also be modified by the surface tension difference between block chains and the homopolymer. Since these factors determine the morphological features of a block copolymer both in bulk and at surface, a unified study of morphology, crystallization, and surface activity of any block copolymer is important to our understanding of its physical properties. 

Proteins apparently may exist in a variety of adsorbed "states". The fraction of proteins in each state will vary with time, temperature and surface, due to differences in the transition rates from one state to another. 

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