BITS Pilani Institutional Repository: Recent submissions

  • Investigation of the Size Distribution of Non-ionic Micelles formed from a Polystyrene-Polyisoprene Block Copolymer in N, //-Dimethylacetamide 
    Booth, Colin; Naylor, Timothy D.; Price, Colin; Rajab, Naman S.; Stubbersfield, Rita B. (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1978, 74 (09-12), 1978)
    Solutions of a polystyrene–polyisoprene block copolymer in N,N-dimethylacetamide were studied by gel permeation chromatography. The effect of temperature on the equilibrium between free copolymer chains and micelles was ...
  • Static Relative Permittivity of some Electrolyte Solutions in Water and Methanol 
    Beek, Wim M. van; Mandel, Michel (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1978, 74 (09-12), 1978)
    Experimental results are presented for the relative permittivity of several chlorides in water and methanol at 25°C measured at 5–20 MHz up to concentration of 0.1 mol dm–3. These permittivities are interpreted as the ...
  • Protonic Conductivity in Layered SnCl2 • 2H2O Single Crystal 
    Mognaschi, Ezio R.; Chierico, Angelo; Parravicini, Gianbattista (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1978, 74 (09-12), 1978)
    The electric conductivity of stannous chloride dihydrate single crystals, measured both with injecting and with metallic electrodes, shows two contributions: a critical, frequency dependent behaviour around the phase ...
  • Open-end Capillary Method in Tracer and Mutual Diffusion of Electrolyte Solutions 
    M'Halla, Jalel; Turq, Pierre; Chemla, Marius (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1978, 74 (09-12), 1978)
    In this study, we derive the general solution of the diffusion equation for multicomponent systems, even with non-constant diffusion coefficients, in the case of limiting conditions corresponding to the open-end capillary ...
  • Carbonylation of Methanol and Ethanol on a Rhodium-Zeolite Catalyst 
    Christensen, Bjarne; Scurrell, Michael S. (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1978, 74 (09-12), 1978)
    The carbonylation of methanol and ethanol on a rhodium-X zeolite has been studied. Particular emphasis has been placed on the effect of the concentration of the required alkyl iodide “promoter” on the selectivity of the ...
  • Reactions of Alkyl Radicals with Nitrogen Trifluoride 
    Cadman, Philip; Inel, Yuksel; Trotman-Dickenson, Aubrey F. (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1978, 74 (09-12), 1978)
    Photolysis of mixtures of nitrogen trifluoride with the appropriate ketones (in the temperature range 303–486 K) has enabled the reactions of CH3, CF3, C2H5, i-C3H7 and t-C4H9 radicals with nitrogen trifluoride to be ...
  • Self-reactions of Isopropylperoxy Radicals in the Gas Phase 
    Kirsch, Leslie J.; Parkes, David A.; Waddington, David J.; Woolley, Allan (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1978, 74 (09-12), 1978)
    The photo-oxidation of 2,2′-azopropane has been studied in order to determine the overall rate constant for the second-order removal of isopropylperoxy radicals. Arrhenius parameters of log10(Aobs/dm3 mol–1 s–1)= 9.15 ± ...
  • Reflectance Spectra of Carbon Monoxide Adsorbed on Alkaline Earth Oxides 
    Zecchina, Adriano; Stone, Frank S. (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1978, 74 (09-12), 1978)
    The adsorption of carbon monoxide at room temperature on well-outgassed specimens of MgO, CaO, SrO and BaO gives rise to a strong absorption spectrum between ν= 15000 and ν= 40000 cm–1. The stronger the outgassing conditions, ...
  • Colloid Stability in Butanol 
    Cooper, W. David; Marsden, Robert S. (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1978, 74 (09-12), 1978)
    The stability ratio (W) of colloidal dispersions of Graphon and polystyrene dispersed in butanol containing varying amounts of HCl and LiCl has been determined. Rate constants for rapid flocculation are found to be in good ...
  • Adsorption of Gas Mixtures of 2,2-Dimethylpropane and n-Butane on Graphite and Application of Ideal Adsorbed Solution Theory 
    Hall, Peter G.; Müller, Shirley Ann (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1978, 74 (09-12), 1978)
    Results for gas mixtures of 2,2-dimethylpropane and n-butane adsorbed in the region of monolayer coverage on graphite at 303 K, show that 2,2-dimethylpropane is preferred to n-butane over the whole range of compositions, ...
  • X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic (X-p.e.s.) studies on in situ photoinduced decomposition of inorganic molecular ions. Part 2.—Na[ClOx] system: mechanistic (x= 3, 4) and variable-temperature (x= 3) investigations 
    Copperthwaite, Richard G.; Lloyd, John (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1978, 74 (09-12), 1978)
    The first-order rate constants for the decomposition of Na[ClO3] and Na[ClO4] when studied by X-p.e.s. are shown to have a linear dependence on the intensity of the ionising radiation used. A simple steady-state model, ...
  • Addition of i-Butane to Slowly Reacting Mixtures of Hydrogen and Oxygen at 480°C 
    Baker, Richard R.; Baldwin, Roy R.; Walker, Raymond W. (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1978, 74 (09-12), 1978)
    Analysis has been made of the products formed when small amounts of i-C4H10 and i-C4H8 are added to slowly reacting mixtures of H2+ O2 at 480°C. The variation of [C3H6]/[C4H8] with [O2], with i-C4H10 as additive, gives the ...
  • Competitive Preferential Solvation Theory of Weak Molecular Interactions 
    Nagy, Ottó B.; Muanda, Mukana Wa; Nagy, Jànos B. (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1978, 74 (09-12), 1978)
    The use of linear Benesi–Hildebrand, Scott or Scatchard equations to characterize molecular interactions leads frequently to anomalous results which cannot be interpreted easily in terms of traditional concepts. The situation ...
  • Observation of Weak Primary Minima in the Interaction of Polystyrene Particles with Nylon Fibres 
    Boughey, Marie T.; Duckworth, Ralph M.; Lips, Alexander; Smith, Alec L. (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1978, 74 (09-12), 1978)
    The deposition of sub-micron polystyrene particles onto dispersed nylon fibres has been studied as a function of pH and ionic strength in the vicinity of the iso-electric point of the nylon. The presence of weak primary ...
  • Thallous Chloride-Thallous Sulphide Phase Diagram 
    Brookes, Hugh C.; Coppens, Henry J.; Pelton, Arthur D. (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1978, 74 (09-12), 1978)
    The phase diagram of the TlCl + Tl2S system has been determined by the method of cooling curves. Calculations of thermodynamic properties of the liquid have been made using the cryoscopic data, together with an analysis ...
  • Nature of Solutions of Water in Sulphuric Acid 
    Sioli, Giancarlo; Giuffre, Luigi; Spaziante, Placido Maria (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1978, 74 (09-12), 1978)
    Proton magnetic resonance measurements have been used to justify a proposed mechanism for the interaction of water with sulphuric acid, where the molar fraction of water is y⩽ 0.5. Three different statistical states of the ...
  • Mechanism of thermolysis of tetramethylsilane and trimethylsilane 
    Baldwin, Alan C.; Davidson, Iain M. T.; Reed, Michael D. (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1978, 74 (09-12), 1978)
    The thermolysis of tetramethylsilane has been studied in a pulsed stirred-flow system between 840 and 1055 K, yielding significantly different Arrhenius parameters above and below 950 K. The high temperature results relate ...
  • Leveraging dual encoders with feature disentanglement for anomaly detection in thermal videos 
    Goyal, Poonam (Springer, 2024-12)
    Anomaly detection is critical for real-time applications, e.g., monitoring elderly people or kids from a remote place; gas leakage detection, night vision surveillance, etc. Detecting anomalous behavior becomes even more ...
  • AdQuestA: knowledge-guided visual question answer framework for advertisements 
    Goyal, Poonam (IEEE, 2025)
    In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital marketing, effective customer engagement through advertisements is crucial for brands. Thus, computational understanding of ads is pivotal for recommendation, authoring, and ...
  • Enhanced multispectral band-to-band registration using co-occurrence scale space and spatial confined ransac guided segmented affine transformation 
    Rohil, Mukesh Kumar (IEEE, 2024-11)
    Band-to-Band Registration (BBR) is a pre-requisite image processing operation essential for specific remote sensing multispectral sensors. BBR aims to align spectral wavelength channels at sub-pixel level accuracy over ...