A quantitative description of specific ion effects is an essential and focused topic in colloidal and biological science. In this work, the dynamic light scattering technique was employed to study the aggregation kinetics of colloidal particles in the various alkali ion solutions with a wide range of concentrations. It indicated that the activation energies could be used to quantitatively chara...

The ion-association equilibrium of the dipicrylaminate ion (DPA(-)) was investigated in an aqueous solution with alkali metal ions and with its 18-crown-6 ether complexes as pairing cations by capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE). Although DPA(-) is precipitable with the pairing cations of K(+) and Cs(+) in a homogenous aqueous solution, a low concentration of DPA(-) below its solubility suppre...

The mechanism of acidification by the urinary bladder of the water turtle was studied in an in vitro system which permitted control and measurement of electrical and concentration driving forces. The rate of hydrogen ion secretion was measured by means of a pH stat technique in the absence of exogenous carbon dioxide and bicarbonate. Transport of hydrogen ion into the solution bathing the mucos...

This review provides a comparative study of contemporary MXene-based hybrid electrode materials in different alkali ion batteries.

Heat capacities (5-380 K) have been measured by adiabatic calorimetry for five highly disordered alkali feldspars (AbeeOr1, Ab65Or15, Ab55Ora5, Ab25Ory5, and AblOree). Positive heat capacity deviations from a linear combination of the end-member heat capacities, which are present mostly at very low temperatures, result in an excess entropy for intermediate compositions. The excess entropy at 29...

This paper presents a study on the behavior of concrete produced from multi-component blended cements. These blends were prepared by blending 20 percent to 60 percent ASTM Type I cement with the combination of Class C fly ash and clean coal ash. Two percent to four percent sodium sulfate anhydrite was added to the blends as a chemical activator. Tests were conducted on the prepared concrete for...

The syntheses and characterization of alkali metal complexes [{VO2L}M(H2O}n] (1 & 2) [M = Na (1), K (2)] of anionic cis-dioxovanadium(V) species (LVO2 ) of the Schiff base 2-hydroxybenzoylhydrazone of 2-hydroxybenzaldehyde have been reported. The number of coordinated water molecules in [{VO2L}M(H2O}n] decreases as the charge density of the alkali metal ion decreases (n = 5 for Na and 1 for K)....

A new matrix of 3,4-diaminobenzophenone (DABP) was demonstrated to be advantageous in the analysis of oligonucleotides by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. With DABP as a matrix, intact oligonucleotide ions can be readily produced with lower laser powers, resulting in better detection limits, less fragmentation and fewer alkali metal ion adducts compa...

Formation constants for complexion between alkali metal cations and the crown ether 18C6 in the solvent 2-cyanopyridine at 3OoC were determined from conductance measurements. The method allows for precise determination of these formation constants up to values of K around 10" mol-' dm3. The method also f. permits accurate evaluation of association equilibrium constants between the complex speci...