Nearly all adaptive optics images of Titan taken between December 2001 and November 2004 showed tropospheric clouds located within 30◦ of the south pole. We report here on a dissipation of Titan’s south polar clouds observed in twenty-nine Keck and Gemini images taken between December 2004 and April 2005. The near complete lack of south polar cloud activity during this time, and subsequent resu...

beside ziegler-natta and phillips catalysts the development of methylaluminoxane (mao) as cocatalyst incombination with metallocenes or other transition metal complexes for the polymerization of olefins haswidely increased the possibilities in controlling the polymer composition, polymer structure, tacticity and special properties with high precision. these catalysts allow the synthesis of isot...

Information about the rheological characteristics of the aqueous cytoplasm can be provided by analysis of the rotational motion of small polar molecules introduced into the cell. To determine fluid-phase cytoplasmic viscosity in intact cells, a polarization microscope was constructed for measurement of picosecond anisotropy decay of fluorescent probes in the cell cytoplasm. We found that the ro...

Antiferro- and ferro-electric ordering has been discovered in orthogonal smectic phases composed of nonchiral bent-core molecules. These systems are the only proper fluid ferroelectrics confirmed experimentally so far. We consider a molecular theory of proper ferroelectric ordering in isotropic, nematic and smectic A phases and conclude that the delicate balance between the tendencies for local...

We report the holographic photopatterning of a microemulsion with a formamide polar phase and an acrylate monomer-containing nonpolar phase to produce polymer structures with periodic nanoscale porosity. Formamide is a highly polar solvent that forms well dispersed, nonaqueous emulsion droplets within the monomer-containing nonpolar phase before holographic patterning. Photochemically initiated...

Supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) may be defined as a form of chromatography in which the mobile phase is subjected to pressures and temperatures near or above the critical point for the purpose of enhancing the mobile phase solvating power. During its relatively short existence, supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) has become an attractive alternative to GC and LC in certain industr...