Pseudo interface waves can exist at the interface of a fluid and a fluid-saturated poroelastic solid. These waves are typically related to the pseudo-Rayleigh pole and the pseudo-Stoneley pole in the complex slowness plane. It is found that each of these two poles can contribute (as a residue) to a full transient wave motion when the corresponding Fourier integral is computed on the principal R...

A route towards phenylene-bithiophene macrocycles via oxidative thiophene coupling under pseudo-high dilution conditions is reported. This method is applied to the synthesis of a shape-persistent thiophene macrocycle with extraannularly attached perylenebisimide moieties that forms supramolecular aggregates at the solid/liquid interface.

Mono-urea-functionalized pillar[5]arenes were prepared which exhibited abnormal urea behaviors. They were shown to form pseudo[1]rotaxanes with poor anion binding abilities in solution and [c2]daisy chains with an abnormal urea motif in the solid state.

Reaction of TlPF(6) with the Cr(III) complex fac-[CrCl(3)(NPN)] (NPN = bis(2-picolyl)phenyl phosphine) did not lead to precipitation of TlCl but rather to addition of the Tl(+) cation to the CrCl(3) moiety, which resulted in a pseudo-dimeric adduct which has an unusual tetranuclear centrosymmetric structure in the solid state.

There has recently been considerable interest in the acoustics of fluid-saturated porous media. The most interesting peculiarity, the existence of two compressional waves, was first predicted by Biot [1] in 1956. It was not until 1980 that Plona [2] experimentally observed the additional slow compressional bulk wave in a water-saturated porous solid composed of sintered glass spheres. Even more...