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Conference of MSc Students Abstracts of the best contributions
Conference of MSc Students Abstracts of the best contributions
Abstracts of PhD conference 2006
This is the collection of Abstracts of the PhD conference held in 2006
Incompatible Liquids in Confined Conditions
In applications involving organic vapour, the performance of high surface
area carbons is often challenged by water vapour in the atmosphere. Small angle
neutron scattering (SANS), through its ability to distinguish between different
components by means of contrast variation, is ideally suited to investigating
the behaviour of adsorbed layers in simultaneous contact with a mixed vapour
phase. Even at high relative humidity (RH), water alone forms a discontinuous
film composed of clusters on the surface of the oxidized microporous carbon
used for these studies. When toluene is also present, all the available carbon
surface is wetted. Toluene and water adsorb as a single phase already at RH
11.5%, and the concentration of water present in the adsorbed phase is as high
as 2.9 wt.%, far above its solubility in bulk toluene (0.033 wt.% at 25 deg C).
At RH 87% the concentration of water in the adsorbed phase is four times
higher, approximately 12 wt.%. The recently proposed mechanism of anchoring of
the water by the aromatic molecules may provide an explanation for this
phenomenon
Shifts in EU Cohesion Policy and Processes of Peripheralization: A View from Central Eastern Europe
The increasing dominance of neoliberalism as the key steering mechanism of the European Union (EU) since the early 1990s has implied the competitiveness-oriented reshaping of cohesion policy. The aim of this paper is to initiate a debate from a critical political economic perspective on the implications of this shift for Central Eastern European (CEE) member states. To this end, the paper discusses the formation of EU centre-periphery relations from a CEE point of view and formulates some preliminary suggestions as to how cohesion policy would need to be rethought in order to ensure the better integration of lagging CEE regions
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