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Broadband Tissue Mimicking Phantoms and a Patch Resonator for Evaluating Noninvasive Monitoring of Blood Glucose Levels
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Towards Accurate Dielectric Property Retrieval of Biological Tissues for Blood Glucose Monitoring
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Slow regions percolate near glass transition
A nano-second scale in situ probe reveals that a bulk linear polymer
undergoes a sharp phase transition as a function of the degree of conversion,
as it nears the glass transition. The scaling behaviour is in the same
universality class as percolation. The exponents \gamma and \beta are found to
be 1.7 \pm .1 and 0.41\pm 0.01 in agreement with the best percolation results
in three dimensions.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figure
Synthesis of p- and n-type Gels Doped with Ionic Charge Carriers
In this study, we synthesized the new kinds of semiconducting polymeric gels having negative (n-type) and positive (p-type) counter ions as charge carriers. The polyacrylamide gel was doped with pyranine (8-hydroxypyrene-1,3,6-trisulfonic acid, trisodium salt), havingions as side groups and Na+ as counter ions, so-called p-type semiconducting gel. The doping process was performed during the polymerization where the pyranine binds to the polymer strands over OH group chemically via radical addition. In a similar way, N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPA) gel was doped with methacrylamidopropyltrimethyl ammonium chloride (MAPTAC), having Cl− as counter ions, so-called n-type semiconducting gel. Here MAPTAC was embedded by copolymerization within the polymer network (NIPA). These semiconducting gels can show different electrical properties by changing the concentration of the doping agents, swelling ratio etc. We have shown that the pn junction, formed by combining p-type and n-type gels together in close contact, rectifies the current similar to the conventional Si and Ge diodes
Quantum Statistical Effects on Fusion Dynamics of Heavy-Ions
In order to describe the fusion of two very heavy nuclei at near barrier
energies, a generalized Langevin approach is proposed, which incorporates the
quantum statistical fluctuations in accordance with the fluctuation and
dissipation theorem. It is illustrated that the quantum statistical effects
introduce an enhancement of the formation of compound nucleus, though the
quantum enhancement is somewhat less pronounced as indicated in the previous
calculations.Comment: 17 pages, 6 figure
Cosmological test of the Yilmaz theory of gravity
We test the Yilmaz theory of gravitation by working out the corresponding
Friedmann-type equations generated by assuming the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker
cosmological metrics. In the case that space is flat the theory is consistent
only with either a completely empty universe or a negative energy vacuum that
decays to produce a constant density of matter. In both cases the total energy
remains zero at all times, and in the latter case the acceleration of the
expansion is always negative. To obtain a more flexible and potentially more
realistic cosmology, the equation of state relating the pressure and energy
density of the matter creation process must be different from the vacuum, as
for example is the case in the steady-state models of Gold, Bondi, Hoyle and
others. The theory does not support the cosmological principle for curved space
K =/= 0 cosmological metrics
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