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Elongational viscosity of microbead suspensions

A ‘tubeless syphon’ was used as an elongational viscometer for the purpose of measuring elongational viscosities of glass bead suspensions in dilute polymer solutions. It was found that while the shear viscosities increased, the elongational viscosities decreased very sharply with increasing bead concentration. The conclusions from the present data are then compared with the observed changes in the elastic properties of two phase molten polymer systems. A double shift procedure has been successfully adopted to correlate the experimental data.     

Oxidation and quality of soybean oil: A preliminary study of the anisidine test

The anisidine test, a measure of secondary oxidation products in glyceride oils, was applied to a number of soybean salad oils processed from sound and damaged soybeans. A highly significant correlation (−0.68) was found between the anisidine values of salad oils from sound soybeans and their flavor scores. Multiple correlations between flavor scores, anisidine, and peroxide values yielded a correlation of 0.81 and provided a method for predicting the initial flavor scores of sound soybean salad oils. Similar data for oils from damaged beans gave a highly significant, but lower, correlation (−0.65). Comparative studies indicated that sound crude oils usually contain lower levels of oxidation products than damaged crude. Oxidation in both sound and damaged crudes increased roughly in proportion to iron content. Reproducibility of the test and the effects of hydrogenation, accelerated storage, and fluorescent light on anisidine values were studied. Analysis of damaged oils before and after deodorization showed that little, if any, reduction of anisidine value occurred. Deodorization of sound oils, however, lowered anisidine values. In comparison with damaged oils, the anisidine values of sound oils were lower at comparable stages of processing. The poor quality of damaged soybean oil was substantiated by organoleptic evaluations. Flavor scores of oils given special processing treatments increased as anisidine values decreased.     

Evidence for the Microwave Effect During the Annealing of Zinc Oxide

A microwave/conventional hybrid furnace has been used to anneal virtually fully dense zinc oxide ceramics under pure conventional and a microwave/conventional hybrid heating regime with a view to obtaining evidence for the "microwave effect" during the resulting grain growth. In each case it was ensured that each sample within a series had an identical thermal history in terms of its temperature/time profile. The results showed that grain growth was enhanced during hybrid heating compared with pure conventional heating; the greatest enhancement, a factor of ∼3 increase in average grain size, was observed in the range 1100°–1150°C. The grain growth exponent decreased from 3 during conventional heating to 1.4 during hybrid heating in this temperature range, suggesting an acceleration of the diffusional processes involved. Temperature gradients within the samples were found to be too small to explain the results. This suggests that clear evidence has been found to support the existence of a genuine "microwave effect."     

Selektivhydrierung von Fettstoffen mit metallorganischen Mischkatalysatoren nach Ziegler-Sloan-Lapporte I: Selektive Hydrierung von Linolsäuremethylester und Modelldienen mit isolierten Doppelbindungen

Selective Hydrogenation of Fats and Derivatives Using Ziegler-Type Organometallic Catalysts I: Selective Hydrogenation of Methyllinoleat and Other Dienic Compounds with Isolated Double Bonds Homogeneous catalysts of Ziegler-Sloan-Lapporte-type, containing nickel, cobalt or palladium, were used to hydrogenate methyllinoleate under very mild conditions selectively to monounsaturated products. The question, wether this selectivity is caused by the 1,4-position of the olefinic double bonds, led to hydrogenation experiments with non-conjugated α,ω-dienes of different chain length. A significant selectivity was only observed for the reduction of 1,4-pentadiene to pentene, dienes with greater distance between the double bonds than in linoleic acid were hydrogenated with less selectivity. To explain these facts, a kinetic model, including catalyst-substrate-complexes of different stabilities, is proposed.     

Physico-Chemical Properties of the Egyptian Tamarind Seed Oil

The physico-chemical properties of the Egyptian Tamarind seed oil were investigated. The seeds were found to contain a fair amount of oil (16.25%). It was found that the oil has a high acid and iodine values in comparison with cotton seed oil. Arachidic, linoleic, oleic, stearic, palmitic, myristic, and lauric were fractionated by gas liquid chromatography from the tamarind seed oil. More than 50% of the total acids are unsaturated. The infrared spectroscopy showed the presence of 7 absorption bands at wave-number cm^?1 (730, 1150, 1380, 1480, 1750, 2900 and 2950) in the investigated oil. On the other hand chemical analysis of the cake showed a lower protein content and higher sugar content.     

Pt/Sn bimetallic catalysts for the electro-oxidation of methanol: poisoning by silicate and phosphate unions

The influence of silicate and phosphate anions on the performance of Pt/Sn electrodeposited catalysts for the electro-oxidation of methanol has been studied. Both anions were found to have serious poisoning effects on the catalyst, whereas platinum catalysts were unaffected. The poisoning mechanism in both cases was thought to be initiated by the formation of either stannosilicates or stannophosphates species followed by the build-up of polymeric silicate or phosphate that ultimately blocks the active sites. The origin of the poisoning mechanism in both cases was found to be chemical rather than electrochemical. In the case of silicate, the poisoning species could be removed and the catalytic activity restored by chemical treatment with sulphuric acid.     

Alternating current and direct current conductivity of poly(azo-1,4-phenylene-vinylene-1,4-phenylene)

The electrical conductivity and dielectric properties of poly(azo-1,4-phenylene-vinylene-1,4-phenylene) were examined. The thermal activation energy of the direct current (DC) conductivity was compared with the activation energy of the relaxation process, evaluated from the area and the width of the curve of the dielectric loss factor against reciprocal temperature at constant frequency. The activation energy E_a=1.50 eV of the intrinsic DC conductivity was found to be roughly equal to the dielectric activation energy [1/H]=1,62 eV. The conduction mechanism in poly(azo-1,4-phenylene-vinylene-1,4-phenylene) is discussed.     

New catalyst systems for the polymerization of acetylene

The catalytic activities of WCI₆Ph₄Sn, MoCl₅Ph₄Sn and tetrabenzyltitanium were examined in the polymerization of acetylene. The structure, morphology and electrical conductivity of the doped and non doped polyacetylene were also studied.     

Biomimetic Polymer Nanostructures by Injection Molding

The nanometer scale topography of self‐assembling structural protein complexes in animals is believed to induce favorable cell responses. An important example of such nanostructured biological complexes is fibrillar collagen that possesses a cross‐striation structure with a periodicity of 69 nm and a peak‐to‐valley distance of 4–6 nm. Bovine collagen type I was assembled into fibrillar structures in vitro and sedimented onto solid supports. Their structural motif was transferred into a nickel replica by physical vapor deposition of a small‐grained metal layer followed by galvanic plating. The resulting inverted nickel structure was found to faithfully present most of the micrometer and nanometer scale topography of the biological original. This nickel replica was used as a die for the injection molding of a range of different thermoplastic polymers. Total injection molding cycle times were in the range of 30–45 seconds. One of the polymer materials investigated, polyethylene, displayed poor replication of the biological nanotopographical motif. However, the majority of the polymers showed very high replication fidelity as witnessed by their ability to replicate the cross‐striation features of less than 5 nm height difference. The latter group of materials includes poly(propylene), poly(methyl methacrylate), poly(L ‐lactic acid), polycaprolactone, and a copolymer of cyclic and linear olefins (COC). This work suggests that the current limiting factor for the injection molding of nanometer scale topography in thermoplastic polymers lies with the grain size of the initial metal coating of the mold rather than the polymers themselves.