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We discuss the situation where attractive and repulsive portions of the interparticle potential both contribute significantly to glass formation. We introduce the square-well potential as prototypical model for this situation, and reject the Baxter model a ...
Environmental effects on electronic states of small mols. in solid rare gases and in liqs. have severe consequences on the photochem.; examples for valence, Rydberg and ionic states as well as the connection to photochem. dry etching are treated. The repul ...
The influence of hyperbranched polymer grafted polypropylene (PP-HBP) on the morphology of polypropylene (PP)/polyamide 6 (PA6) blends has been investigated. The final morphology was strongly influenced by the PP-HBP compatibilizer concentration. At low co ...
The transition from a liquid to a glass in colloidal suspensions of particles interacting through a hard core plus an attractive square-well potential is studied within the rnode-coupling-theory framework. When the width of the attractive potential is much ...
We discuss the ideal glass transition for two types of potential model of attractive colloidal systems, i.e. the square-well system and the Yukawa hard-sphere fluid. We use the framework of the ideal mode-coupling theory and we mostly focus our attention o ...
Recent developments in Raman spectroscopy at high pressure, high temperature and combined high pressure and variable temperature are presented. The instrumental and technical aspects of Raman spectroscopy, and coupling of diamond anvil cells and miniature ...
Within the framework of the mode-coupling theory of super-cooled liquids, we investigate new phenomena in colloidal systems on approach to their glass transitions. When the inter-particle potential contains an attractive part, besides the usual repulsive h ...
The growth and properties of nanosized silicon particles produced by gas-phase reaction in a low-pressure silane plasma has been studied. In situ ion-mass spectroscopy and Mie scattering measurements were used to monitor the formation of powders. High reso ...
The adsorption behaviour of Si(111)2 x 1 and Si(111)7 x 7 surfaces towards Fe(CO)5 has been investigated in the temperature range 80-300 K and in the exposure range 0.1-1000 L. For both surface reconstructions, the adsorption state is found to be molecular ...
The growing interest in the study of natural or artificial nanoscale structures stabilized by a corrugated surface calls for specific models adapted to the awkward symmetry of such systems. In this work the field susceptibility of a system composed of a fi ...