Ultrasonic Absorption of Polystyrene in Decalin

UV absorption spectra of polystyrene

Polystyrene (PSt) exhibits a new UV absorption band at around 290nm in comparison with ethylbenzene, which is attributed to associative interaction between pendant phenyl groups, similar absorption bands are also observed for polymers of styrene derivatives. The UV spectra suggest charge-transfer complex formation between the polymeric and monomeric donors with electron-acceptor tetracyanoethyl...

Ultrasonic Absorption Microscope

This paper constitutes a progress rersort on the develol•ment of an ultrasonic instrument for detecting microstructure. The principle of operation of the device (designated by the term "ultrasonic microscope") is as follows: The specimen is imbedded in a liquid, which closely matches it in acoustic impedance, and is irradiated with sho•t pulses of highdreqnency hound. Some of the ultrasonic ene...

Ultrasonic absorption and attenuation in mammalian tissues.

-The ultrasonic absorption was determined, by the transient thermoelectric method, for brain, heart, kidney, liver, tendon, and testis from cat, mouse, pig and beef. Comparison of these absorption {a) values with published values of attenuation (A) shows: (1) that the a and A coefficients have nearly the same frequency dependencies in the range 0.5-7 MHz, (2) that the magnitudes of a and A diff...

Ultrasonic absorption and reflection by lung tissue.

Ultrasonic absorption evidence of structural fluctuations in viral capsids.

When the coat protein of the small icosahedral virus, brome mosaic virus, reassembles into capsids, the ultrasonic absorption of the solution greatly increases. Submitting the solution to an ultrasonic field thus appears to reveal spontaneous molecular motions within a protein assembly. Confirmatory evidence of a dynamics of a protein shell comes from measurements on brome mosaic virus at vario...