Determination of Oxygen Nonstoichiometry and Diffusivity in Mixed Conducting Oxides by Oxygen Coulometric Titration. II Oxygen Nonstoichiometry and Defect Model for La0.8Sr0.2CoO3-delta

The oxygen nonstoichiometry of La0.8Sr0.2CoO3-delta has been determined as a function of oxygen partial pressure and temperature using a high-temperature coulometric titration cell. For each measured value of the oxygen chemical potential, the oxygen nonstoichiometry is found to be nearly independent of temperature. The equilibrium partial energy and entropy associated with oxygen incorporation have been determined as a function of oxygen nonstoichiometry and temperature. The results are interpreted in terms of a model in which it is assumed that conduction electrons, created during vacancy formation, gradually fill electron states in a wide electron band. A new relation between vacancy concentration, temperature, and oxygen partial pressure has been formulated which does not have the familiar appearance of a mass action type of equation

Uncoupled Hartree-Fock calculations of the polarizability and hyperpolarizabilities of nitrophenols

The polarizability and hyperpolarizabilities of nitrophenols as model compounds for studying nonlinear optics have been investigated at the Hartree-Fock level of approximation by means of the Dalgarno Uncoupled Hartree-Fock (DUHF) or Sum Over Orbitals (SOO) method. The additive character and the charge transfer effects in α,β,γ and have been analyzed in terms of the δ and π molecular orbital contributions, the contribution of the individual π molecular orbitals, and the contribution of the highest occupied and the lowest unoccupied\ud molecular orbitals. Within the SOO approach, the reliability of the Two-Level Model has been tested and the influence of the rotation of the nitro group and of the presence of the intramolecular hydrogen bonding in ortho-nitrophenol have been studied. The results show that the present method is a reliable and efficient tool for the prediction of trends in the molecular polarizability and hyperpolarizabilities of large molecule

A Self-Contained Identification Scheme for Eddies in Drifter and Float Trajectories

It is becoming increasingly recognized that the eddy field plays an important—possibly dominating—role for oceanic motions in many aspects (e.g., transport of properties and risk assessment in the case of extreme events). This motivates the study of individual eddy events. In the Lagrangian coordinate system, vorticity possibly associated with eddies appears in two forms: as shear vorticity between neighboring particles, and as curvature of the trajectory of a single particle. Typical field experiments in physical oceanography using surface drifters or subsurface floats do not reach data densities high enough to produce enough encounters of drifters to calculate shear vorticity between them. However, curvature in individual tracks is easily observed. This study presents a methodology that extracts segments from within a trajectory that are “looping,” which will be interpreted as a drifter being caught in an eddy. The method makes use of autoregressive processes, a simple type of stochastic processes, which easily enables a fit to the nonperfectly shaped trajectory data usually expected from field experiments. These processes also deliver frequency and persistence of the detected eddies by a very simple calculation, which makes the methodology highly suited for automatized scanning of larger datasets

Determination of oxygen nonstoichiometry and diffusivity in mixed conducting oxides by oxygen Coulometric titration

Oxygen coulometric titration has been applied to measure chemical diffusion in La0.8Sr0.2CoO3-δ between 700 and 1000°C. The transient current response to a potentiostatic step has been transformed from the time domain to the frequency domain. The equivalent circuit used to fit the resulting impedance data contains the element that describes the finite-length diffusion of oxygen into the sample specimen. Other elements included are the gas-phase capacitance and the sum of the gas-phase diffusion resistance and that associated with the limited surface exchange kinetics of the sample. The chemical diffusion coefficient of perovskite La0.8Sr0.2CoO3-δ has been determined as a function of temperature and oxygen partial pressure. Its value can be represented by ~D (cm2/s) = 5.91 x exp [(-135 kJ/mol)/RT], and turns out to be practically independent of oxygen partial pressure in the range 10-2 - 0.209 bar

Corrigenda: Untersuchungen zur Zirkulation in mittleren und oberen Wassermassen des Nordatlantiks mit Lagrange’schen und profilierenden Methoden

Chapter 2 of the dissertation, “Analyses of the Circulation in Intermediate and Shallow Water Masses of the North Atlantic with Lagrangian and Profiling Methods”, contains the following mistake: It says that the chapter reproduces a publication by Lankhorst, Send, and Biastoch (2007b), with a copyright notice referring to the American Geophysical Union (AGU). This is incorrect. There was an attempt to publish this with the AGU, but the manuscript was never accepted for publication there, and the AGU has no copyright to any of the materials.Kapitel 2 der Dissertation “Untersuchungen zur Zirkulation in mittleren und oberen Wassermassen des Nordatlantiks mit Lagrange’schen und profilierenden Methoden” enthält den folgenden Fehler: Es wird behauptet, das Kapitel reproduziere eine Veröffentlichung von Lankhorst, Send und Biastoch (2007b) mit einem Copyright-Bezug zur American Geophysical Union (AGU). Dies ist inkorrekt. Es hat zwar einen Versuch gegeben, dies bei der AGU zu publizieren, aber das Manuskript ist dort nie zur Veröffentlichung angenommen worden, und die AGU hat keinerlei Urheberrechte an den Inhalten