Uniform polarization model

Nuclear magnetic resonance of A1 in the paramagnetic state of R-Al intermetallic compounds. Values of the s-f exchange interaction parameter /sf are based on the uniform polarization model [Jaccarino et al. (I960)]. 

We shall call the frequency at which t = —2em and t" — 0 the Frohlich frequency coF the corresponding normal mode—the mode of uniform polarization—is sometimes called the Frohlich mode. In his excellent book on dielectrics, Frohlich (1949) obtained an expression for the frequency of polarization oscillation due to lattice vibrations in small dielectric crystals. His expression, based on a one-oscillator Lorentz model, is similar to (12.20). The frequency that Frohlich derived occurs where t = —2tm. Although he did not explicitly point out this condition, the frequency at which (12.6) is satisfied has generally become known as the Frohlich frequency. The oscillation mode associated with it, which is in fact the lowest-order surface mode, has likewise become known as the Frohlich mode. Whether or not Frohlich s name should be attached to these quantities could be debated we shall not do so, however. It is sufficient for us to have convenient labels without worrying about completely justifying them. 

One of the models for the hydration force, the polarization model,5 assumes that the hydration force is generated by the local correlations between neighboring dipoles present on the surface and in water. The macroscopic continuum theory, in which water is assumed to be a homogeneous dielectric, predicts that there is no electric field above or below a neutral surface carrying a uniform dipolar density. However, at microscopic level the water is hardly homogeneous, and the electric interactions... 

Heikkinen et al. presented an application of the Q-HSQC experiment with uniform polarization transfer over a range of cn couplings in quantification. This study with a mixture of lignin model compounds demonstrated comparative... 

Based on the energy minimum principle, for the uniformly polarized membrane, the following system of partial differential equations has been proposed to model the membrane permeabilization and find the size and number of the created nanopores on each point of the cell membrane. The details of these equations can be found in [4]. In these equations, n and r represent the number and radius of the created nanopores, respectively. 

The objective of the polarization model is to relate the material parameters, such as the dielectric properties of both the liquid and solid particles, the particle volume fraction, the electric field strength, etc., to the rheological properties of the whole suspension, in combination with other micro structure features such as fibrillatcd chains. A idealized physical model ER system—an uniform, hard dielectric sphere dispersed in a Newtonian continuous medium, is usually assumed for simplification reason, and this model is thus also called the idealized electrostatic polarization model. The hard sphere means that the particle is uncharged and there are no electrostatic and dispersion interactions between the particles and the dispersing medium before the application of an external electric field. For the idealized electrostatic polarization model, there are roughly two ways to deal with the suspensions One is to consider the Brownian motion of particle, and another is to ignore the Brownian motion and particle inertia. For both cases the anisotropic structure of such a hard sphere suspension is assumed to be represented by the pair correlation function g(r,0), derived by... 

Ferroelectricity is an electrical phenomenon and also an important property in solids. It arises in certain crystals in terms of spontaneous dipole moment below Curie temperature [1], The direction of this moment can be switched between the equivalent states by the application of an external electric field [2-4], It is observed in some crystal systems that undergo second-order structural changes below the Curie temperature, which results in the development of spontaneous polarization. This can be explained by Landau-Ginzburg free energy functional [3, 4, 9]. The ferroelectric behavior is commonly explained by the presence of domains with uniform polarization. This behavior is nonlinear in terms of hysteresis of polarization (P) and electric field (E) vectors. Phenomenological models of ferroelectrics have been developed for engineering computation and for various applications. 

The simulations to investigate electro-osmosis were carried out using the molecular dynamics method of Murad and Powles [22] described earher. For nonionic polar fluids the solvent molecule was modeled as a rigid homo-nuclear diatomic with charges q and —q on the two active LJ sites. The solute molecules were modeled as spherical LJ particles [26], as were the molecules that constituted the single molecular layer membrane. The effect of uniform external fields with directions either perpendicular to the membrane or along the diagonal direction (i.e. Ex = Ey = E ) was monitored. The simulation system is shown in Fig. 2. The density profiles, mean squared displacement, and movement of the solvent molecules across the membrane were examined, with and without an external held, to establish whether electro-osmosis can take place in polar systems. The results clearly estab-hshed that electro-osmosis can indeed take place in such solutions. 

The Self-Consistent Reaction Field (SCRF) model considers the solvent as a uniform polarizable medium with a dielectric constant of s, with the solute M placed in a suitable shaped hole in the medium. Creation of a cavity in the medium costs energy, i.e. this is a destabilization, while dispersion interactions between the solvent and solute add a stabilization (this is roughly the van der Waals energy between solvent and solute). The electric charge distribution of M will furthermore polarize the medium (induce charge moments), which in turn acts back on the molecule, thereby producing an electrostatic stabilization. The solvation (free) energy may thus be written as... 

Conversely, in a membrane model, acetylcholine showed mean log P values very similar to those exhibited in water. This was due to the compound remaining in the vicinity of the polar phospholipid heads, but the disappearance of extended forms decreased the average log P value somewhat. This suggests that an anisotropic environment can heavily modify the conformational profile of a solute, thus selecting the conformational clusters more suitable for optimal interactions. In other words, isotropic media select the conformers, whereas anisotropic media select the conformational clusters. The difference in conformational behavior in isotropic versus anisotropic environments can be explained considering that the physicochemical effects induced by an isotropic medium are homogeneously uniform around the solute so that all conformers are equally influenced by them. In contrast, the physicochemical effects induced by an anisotropic medium are not homogeneously distributed and only some conformational clusters can adapt to them. 

Recently, numerous studies reported the application of homonuclear and heteronuclear selective recoupling schemes on uniformly labelled ligand interacting with membrane receptors. The polarization exchange curves were fitted with the two-spin model and showed that it is possible to determine intemuclear distances up to 4.5 A.118... 

In the case of Hollosep, it may be possible to employ a simplified module model because of its low concentration polarization, uniform feed water flow and low pressure drop. 

The STO-3G model provides a very non-uniform account of dipole moments in these compounds (see Figure 10-1). Calculated dipole moments for extremely polar ( ionic ) molecules like lithium chloride are almost always much smaller than experimental values, while dipole moments for moderately polar molecules such as silyl chloride are often larger, and dipole moments for other molecules like carbon... 

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