There is a continuing need to develop improved repellent formulations to protect buried cable installations fi-om damage by problem wildlife. We evaluated 2.0% mass/mass levels of capsaicin and denatoni ~ ~ m benzoate in a polybutene carrier material (Indopol@) and an aboveground, rodent-deer plastic mesh barrier (\'exar@) for reducing gnawing by northern pocket gophers (Tho~not~lys talpnides) ...

Bicontinuous, interfacially jammed, emulsion gels (bijels) are a novel class of materials composed of two immiscible phases with interpenetrating domains that are stabilized by a monolayer of colloidal particles at the interface. However, existing bijel systems so far all consist of at least one polar fluid, which is believed to be essential to induce electrostatic repulsion for stabilizing int...

Small angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) is a valuable method for studying structure changes which take place during phase transitions in polymeric and oligomeric systems. Measurements of the dependence of SAXS on temperature yield information on the changes in morphology or of the structure on a supermolecular level. The technique can be applied to various problems: glass transition in highly cryst...