A novel polyimide (PI)/clay hybrid nanocomposite, designated as PI (PAAS)/CM, has been developed from the poly(amic acid) salt of triethylamine and organomontmorillonite (CM) using a mixture solution of tetrahydrofuran (THF) and methanol (MeOH). For comparison, two other PI/clay hybrids derived from poly(amic acid) and CM in THF/MeOH solution and N,N9-dimethylacetamide (DMAc) solution, denoted ...

Protein-protein and peptide-peptide (self-)interactions are of key importance in understanding the physiochemical behavior of proteins and peptides in solution. However, due to the small size of peptide molecules, characterization of these interactions is more challenging than for proteins. In this work, we show that protein-protein and peptide-peptide interactions can advantageously be investi...

We present a new model for fluid flow and solute transport in porous media, which employs smoothed particle hydrodynamics to solve a Langevin equation for flow and dispersion in porous media. This allows for effective separation of the advective and diffusive mixing mechanisms, which is absent in the classical dispersion theory that lumps both types of mixing into dispersion coefficient. The cl...

Understanding the dynamics of fixed-bed adsorption columns for modeling is a demanding task due to the strong nonlinearities in the equilibrium isotherms, interference effects of competition of solutes for adsorbent sites, mass transfer resistances between fluid phase and solid phase, and fluid-dynamic dispersion phenomena. The interplay of these effects produces steep concentration fronts, whi...

We develop a systematic theory of the Hall effect in Q1D conductors in both weak and strong magnetic fields for a model where the electron relaxation time varies over the Fermi surface. At high temperatures, the Hall coefficient saturates at the values −β/ecn, where the dimensionless coefficient β is determined by the curvature of the longitudinal dispersion law of electrons, e the electron cha...

We develop a systematic theory of the Hall effect in Q1D conductors in both weak and strong magnetic fields for a model where the electron relaxation time varies over the Fermi surface. At high temperatures, the Hall coefficient saturates at the value −β/ecn, where the dimensionless coefficient β is determined by the curvature of the longitudinal dispersion law of electrons, e the electron char...

The restricted maximum likelihood (REML) estimator of the dispersion matrix for random coefficient models is rewritten in terms of the sufficient statistics of the individual regressions.