Abstract: A material useful as a substitute component for a modified multiple phase system is selected. The substitute component exhibits a sigma profile that produces a predetermined selected property. The substitute component is determined by the steps of: mutating the sigma profile of a component of an initial system; computing the value of a selected property of a modified system containing a candidate substitute component having the mutated sigma profile; comparing the value of the selected property of the modified system to the initial value of the selected property; accepting or discarding the mutation based upon a predetermined acceptance standard; and repeating the steps for either a predetermined number of times or until the value of the selected property of the modified system improves over initial value of the selected property.

Abstract: A material useful as a substitute component for a modified single component system is selected. The substitute component is determined by the steps of: mutating the sigma profile of a component of an initial system; computing the value of a selected property of a modified system containing a candidate substitute component having the mutated sigma profile; comparing the value of the selected property of the modified system to a predetermined reference value; accepting or discarding the mutation based upon a predetermined acceptance standard; and repeating the steps for either a predetermined number of times or until the value of the selected property of the modified system meets a predetermined finishing criterion.

Abstract: A material useful as a substitute component for a modified multiple phase system is selected. The substitute component exhibits a sigma profile that produces a selected property of the modified multiple phase system having a predetermined desired value. The substitute component is determined by the steps of: mutating the sigma profile of a component of an initial system; computing the value of a selected property of a modified system containing a candidate substitute component having the mutated sigma profile; comparing the value of the selected property of the modified system to the predetermined desired value; accepting or discarding the mutation based upon a predetermined acceptance standard; and repeating the steps for either a predetermined number of times or until the value of the selected property of the modified system meets the predetermined desired value.

Abstract: A material useful as an operative component to effect the combination of at least a first and a second immiscible phase into a single phase system, dispersion or emulsion is selected.

Abstract: A material useful as a substitute component for a modified single phase system is selected. The substitute component exhibits a sigma profile that produces a predetermined selected property. The substitute component is determined by the steps of: mutating the sigma profile of a component of an initial system; computing the value of a selected property of a modified system containing a candidate substitute component having the mutated sigma profile; comparing the value of the selected property of the modified system to the initial value of the selected property; accepting or discarding the mutation based upon a predetermined acceptance standard; and repeating the steps for either a predetermined number of times or until the value of the selected property of the modified system improves over initial value of the selected property.

Abstract: A material useful as a substitute component for a modified system is synthesized to exhibit a sigma profile that produces a selected property of the modified system having a value that meets a predetermined finishing criterion.

Abstract: A preferred embodiment of the foldable part holder is comprised of a front flap, a bottom flap, a back flap, a top flap, a prong flap, a plurality of folds, a plurality of slots, and a plurality of apertures all of which are formed from a flat sheet of polymeric material. The front flap, the bottom flap, the back flap, the top flap, the prong flap, the plurality of folds, the plurality of slots, and the plurality of apertures are all arranged on the flat sheet such that when the flat sheet is folded along the plurality of folds, the embodiment forms a three-dimensional part holder. The plurality of folds are formed by the polymeric sheet such that when folded the flaps engage each other in the appropriate manner. All of the elements formed onto the flat sheet of polymeric material through any fabrication process common for polymeric materials.

Abstract: Jet black thermoplastic compositions are obtained when a carbon black having particular properties is blended with a particular poly(arylene ether) or polycarbonate resin system. Failure to observe similar color properties with other resin systems or other carbon black types indicates a synergy between the carbon black type and the two resin types. Methods of preparing the compositions and articles comprising the compositions are described.

Abstract: Jet black thermoplastic compositions are obtained when a carbon black having particular properties is blended with a particular poly(arylene ether) or polycarbonate resin system. Failure to observe similar color properties with other resin systems or other carbon black types indicates a synergy between the carbon black type and the two resin types. Methods of preparing the compositions and articles comprising the compositions are described.

Abstract: A black-colored plastic composition includes a poly(arylene ether), a polystyrene, and at least two organic dyes. The composition has a high gloss and a deep black color that is unexpectedly much more light stable that a comparable black-color plastic using a carbon black pigment. The composition is useful in the manufacture of automotive interiors, and electronic equipment including consumer electronics and particularly television bezels.

Abstract: A thermoplastic composition includes particular amounts of a poly(arylene ether), a hydrogenated block copolymer, a copolymer of ethylene and an alpha-olefin, a plasticizer, a white pigment, and an ultraviolet radiation stabilizer. The composition exhibits excellent light stability, and it is particularly useful for forming white or off-white cable insulation.

Abstract: A thermoplastic composition includes particular amounts of a poly(arylene ether), a hydrogenated block copolymer, a plasticizer, a white pigment, and an ultraviolet radiation stabilizer. The composition exhibits excellent light stability, and it is particularly useful for forming white or off-white cable insulation.

Abstract: A motor and a method of operating the motor are described. The motor may have a female rotor shaft having mounted thereon a female compression rotor, a female power rotor, and a spur gear. The motor may also have a male rotor shaft having mounted thereon a male compression rotor, a male power rotor and a power rotor gear. A housing containing the foregoing may have a front housing plate, a compression rotor case, an isolator plate, a power rotor case, a rear housing plate, and a gear cover adjacent the rear housing plate. The various female and male rotors are engaged with one another within the housing.

Abstract: A plasma doping apparatus includes a chamber and a plasma source that generates ions from a dopant gas. A platen is positioned in the chamber adjacent to the plasma source that supports a wafer for plasma doping. A deflection grid comprising a first and second deflection electrode is positioned in the chamber between the plasma source and the platen. The deflection grid deflects ions with an angle that is proportional to a voltage difference between the first and the second deflection electrodes.

Abstract: Peptides have been generated that have binding affinity to carbon nanostructures and particularly carbon nanotubes. Peptides of or the invention are generally about twelve amino acids in length. Methods for generating carbon nanotube binding peptides are also disclosed.

Abstract: This invention relates to the field of nanotechnology. Specifically the invention describes a method for cutting a multiplicity of nano-structures to uniform dimensions of length, length and width, or area, or to a specific distribution of lengths or area using various cutting techniques.

Abstract: This invention relates to the field of nanotechnology. Specifically the invention describes a method for cutting a multiplicity of nano-structures to uniform dimensions of length, length and width, or area, or to a specific distribution of lengths or area using various cutting techniques.

Abstract: A new and improved composite rotary steel drive shaft comprises a radially outer steel tubular member and a radially inner carbon fiber tubular liner which is adhesively bonded upon the inner peripheral wall surface of the radially outer steel tubular member wherein the carbon fiber tubular liner is characterized by or exhibits a relatively high modulus of elasticity. As a result of the adhesive bonding of the radially inner carbon fiber tubular liner upon the inner peripheral wall surface of the radially outer steel tubular member, the torsional stiffness properties of the resulting composite rotary steel drive shaft are dramatically increased to such a degree that high-performance, high-speed rotary operation of the same, within the range of ten thousand revolutions per minute (10,000 RPM), is enabled without the composite rotary drive shaft experiencing any undesirable deflections, or any detrimental vibrational resonance, as has been characteristic of conventional rotary drive shafts.

Abstract: Contaminated liquids are treated by ozonation in a pressurized environment. Ozone is injected into a contaminated liquid to form a gas/liquid mixture. The mixture is injected into a mixing chamber for providing turbulent gas/liquid contact. The mixture is flowed from the mixing chamber into a pressurized reaction vessel. In an alternative embodiment, contaminated liquid is treated in situ using pressurized injection wells for injecting ozone-containing liquid.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for simultaneously performing chemical reactions and determining molecular transport dynamics on a plurality of samples such as thin film samples. The apparatus of the present invention is capable of containing multiple samples in individual sample holding positions in a sample holder within a housing and maintaining those holding positions in chemical isolation from each other. Under control of a computerized controller, the apparatus positions the sample holder so that each sample holding position may be positioned adjacent to one or more ports connected to a distribution manifold. The apparatus exposes each sample to one or more fluids in liquid or gas phase, thereby carrying out a chemical reaction and/or determining molecular transport dynamics under controlled temperature and pressure conditions. The sample holding positions may be positioned in an analytical measurement station within the housing so that the resulting chemical compound or mixture may be characterized.