Contents of volume 37

CONTENTS

OF VOLUME

37

Number 1

PROCEEDINGS OF AN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON RADIATION CHEMISTRY OF POLYMERS List of Participants Yoneho

Tabata

Yoneho

Tabata

Preface

and Y. Katsumura

Opening Address: Recent advances radiation chemistry of polymers 5

A. Charlesby

in the field

of

Past and future trends in polymer irradiation

11

The effect of ultralow temperature on olefin cation formation by ionic fragmentation in the radiolysis of 2,3dimethylbutane

15

An ESR and NMR study of the radiolysis of n-alkanes: crystal structure dependence

23

A chromatographic study on crosslinks induced gamma-irradiation of alkane

Tadao Seguchi, Yosuke Katsumura, Nariyuki Hayashi, Naohiro Hayakawa, Naoyuki Tamura and Yoneho Tabata

29

Irradiation effects on polymer-model compounds

G. Ungar

37

Long-range active site transfer in irradiated hydrocarbon crystals

43

Free radicals and crosslinking in irradiated polyethylene

J. Sohma, Chen Qun, Wang Yuanshen. Qu Xue-Wen and M. Shiotani

47

Solid-state high-resolution 13C-NMR study of crosslinks in heavily gamma-irradiated polyethylene

Jean

53

Gamma-radiation-induced oxidation-a very convenient tool to unravel the mechanisms of polyolefin aging and stabilization

59

The effect of irradiation on polyethylene double-laminated by ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer

65

The radiation chemistry of polymer composites

71

The correlation between the morphology and radiation resistance of polypropylene solid materials

Tetsuo

Miyazaki

K. Toriyama, K. Nunome B. Tilquin

M. Okazaki, and K. Matsuura

and T. Baudson

and M. J. Hill

H. Kashiwabara, and Y. Hori

S. Shimada

Marchal

Yoshimasa Hama Tetsuya Hirade Malcolm

and

Dole

Sei-ichi Nishimoto, Kazuhisa Kitamura, Yasushi Watanabe and Tsutomu Kagiya

.

111

by

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iv

Lothar

Wiesner

Eisuke Oda, Syunichi Masashige Kubo, Yukihiro Tsutsumi, Tadao Seguchi and Miyuki Hagiwara Kaiji Ueno, lkujiro Shotaro Tada

Fujimura,

Uda and

Bernard J. Lyons and Leon C. Glover Jr

77

Effects of radiation on polyethylene and other polyolefins in the presence of oxygen

83

Development

89

Radiation-crosslinked applications

93

Radiolytic crosslinking and chain and alkyl-aromatic polyamide~ll

of super-radiation-resistant

polyethylene

for wire

scission

and cable

in aliphatic

Koichiro Hayashi, Deyu Gao and Yukio Yamamoto

103

Radiation-induced urea

Hiroto Tachikawa, Hiroshi Yoshida and Masaaki Ogasawara

107

Structure and reactivity ab -initio approach

H. Yamaoka. T. Masuda

111

Effects of radiation acetylenes

D. J. Deeble, G. 0. Phillips, E. Bothe, H.-P. Schuchmann and C. von Sonntag

115

The radiation-induced

V. S. Ivanov, I. I. Migunova A. I. Mikhailov

119

Radiation-induced fluoride

125

A track physics model of radiation

action

Wolfram Schnabel and Siegfried Klaumunzer

131

The effects of ion-beam

of polymers

Tsuneo Sasuga, Shunichi Kawanishi, Masanobu Nishii, Tadao Seguchi and lsao Kohno

135

Effects of ion irradiation several polymers

Tadao Seguchi. Naohiro Hayakawa, Naoyuki Tamura, Yosuke Katsumura Yoneho Tabata

141

Effects of radiation on paraffins as polymer-model compound-IV. Fast-neutron irradiation effects

147

Effects of neutrons and gamma-rays on polymer composites as low-temperature materials

153

Concluding

155

Summary

Robert

Joseph

and

Katz

Shigenori

Mitio

T. Matsuyama, and T. Higashimura

condensation

cable

of

of formaldehyde

PMMA

ion

radicals-an

on hetero-atom-containing

degradation

crosslinking

irradiation

of hyaluronic

of

on the mechanical

and

poly-

acid

polyvinylidene

properties

of

and

Egusa

lnokuti Silverman

matrix

remarks

Number 2 Heinz-Peter Schuchmann, David J. Deeble, Glyn 0. Phillips and Clemens von Sonntag

157

Pulse radiolysis with conductometric detection: two approaches to absolute dosimetry

V

Conrents of Volume 37 161

Ordered distances in theories of multiple ion-pair spur kinetics

Vesna Nothig-Laslo, Takialdin A. Himden and Halka Bilinski

169

Paramagnetic molecular centers in the gamma-irradiated novel aluminium and leucine, compound of Af,O.(OH),0 (leucine),.5H,O

V. Ya. Kabanov, R. E. Aliev and Val. N. Kudryavtsev

175

Present status and development graft polymerization

Hidetoshi Karasawa, Eishi Ibe, Shunsuke Uchida, Yoshinori Etoh and Takayoshi Yasuda

193

Radiation induced decomposition of nitrogen

Steve

199

Emissivity of aluminized Mylar

203

Effects of electromagnetic microwave irradiation on the stress relaxation behaviour of a silicone elastomer seal

K. E. Danilov, Vu. M. Lugovoi, A. G. Shostenko and N. Getoff

209

Radiation-induced free-radical silane with ketones

Y. Izumi, M. Nishii, T. Seguchi, K. Ema and T. Yamamoto

213

Effect of molecular orientation on the radiolysis of polyethylene in the presence of oxygen

A. C. Dusaucy

217

Selectivity in dehydrodimerisation of amides: final analysis from radiolysis in the liquid phase

Hynd Remita, Renbe Derai and Marie-Odile Delcourt

221

A new process using radiation for synthesising molecular metal clusters and complexes: first results concerning iron, ruthenium and osmium compounds

H. Pal, D. K. Palit, T. Mukherjee and J. P. Mittal

227

One-electron reduction of anthraquinone sulphonates: a pulse radiolysis study

V. N. Bhoraskar

and N. Nagesh

237

Effect of neutrons, electrons and gamma radiation on grafting of benzylalcohol onto nylon (6)

and N. R. Chiplunkar

241

Influence of oxides on the radiolysis of RbNO, and CsNO,

245

Molecular nitrogen formation by electron-beam flue gas

249

Electron-beam treatment of waste gas: dose measurements used in model calculations

257

Matrix inhomogeneity sions

Zhang Jian, Zhang Zhiping and Ying Shengkang

263

Study of gamma-ray butadiene in ethanol

S. Kapoor, C. Gopinathan and R. M. lyer

267

The triplet excited state of naphthalene pulse radiolytic study

J. Mayer

273

Pulse radiolysis of quinizarin in methanol solution

Michel Geoffroy, Michel Wermeille, Paule Castan, Diane Deguenon and GBrald Bernardinelli

279

Radical pair formation in X-irradiated croconate ions: a single crystal ESR study

E. Jaworskae, I. Kaluska, G. Strzelczak-Burlinska and J. Michalik

285

Irradiation of polyethylene in the presence of antioxidants

Francis

291

The radiolytic reduction of mercuric chloride in aqueous sugar solutions

I. R. Entinron, A. S. Kutsenko and A. A. Chujko

295

Fast electron energy absorption material

E. Nedkov, A. Stoyanov and V. Krestev

299

Morphology of gamma-irradiated polypropylene gels crystallised from xylene solution-l. Optical microscopy and SALS

Nicholas Simon

J. B. Green M. Pimblott

and

R. Domen

Freddy

Y. C. Boey

S. F. Patil

and B. Tilquin

H. Miitzing

H. Miitzing, and H.-R.

W. Baumann Paur

S. ValiC, M. Andreis, and A. Charlesby

2. Veksli

and R. Krasiukianis

J. Johnston

trends of radiation-induced

interaction of dichloromethyl-

product

processing of

distribution

in crosslinked rubber and rubber emul-

radiation-induced

polymerization

of

in mixed solvents: a

in two-layer

system screen

Vi

Contents of Volume 37

E. Nedkov, A. Stoyanov and V. Krestev

305

Morphology of gamma-irradiated lised from xylene solution-2. crystallisation

Leonard

313

Radiation hormesis: evidence for speculation regarding mechanisms

319

Investigation of radiation sensitivities methylester-methacryl acid copolymers

325

The role of the aluminosilicate matrix in the gamma-irradiation energy transfer to the oxalate molecule

331

Application

A. Sagan

P. Wiinsche, K. Pfeiffer and R. Kunze Laszlo Horvath, Vesna and Halka Bilinski Richard

Niithig-Laslo

A. Pethrick

of electron

polypropylene Kinetics of

radiation

beam irradiation

gels crystalmelting and

stimulation

and

methacryl

acid

of

in microlithography

S. N. Bhattacharyya, and S. Chakrabarti

P. C. Mandal

347

Effect of Cu (II)-aminopolycarboxylates of thymine

Veli

Deniz

and Olgun

Giiven

353

Radiation exclusion

Veli

Deniz

and Olgun

Giiven

359

Radiation chemistry of poly(ethyl irradiation temperature

363

Thermal stability

367

Spatial distribution of radicals in gamma-irradiated poly(methyl methacrylate) studied by electron spin echo method

Guadalupe Kenneth Tsuneki

Robert

AlbarrBn, E. Collins lchikawa

chemistry of chromatography

poly(ethyl results

of products

on the radiosensitivity

methacrylate)-Ill,

methacrylate)-IV.

from self-irradiated

Size

Effect of

Ca%O,

and C. H. Collins

and Hiroshi

Yoshida

Katz

373

Short Communication On the normalized yield (events/rad/Dalton) molecules irradiated with energetic heavy ions

375

Book Review

of

biological

Number 3 THIS ISSUE IS DEDICATED TO PROFESSOR JERZY KROH ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 05TH BIRTHDAY AND THE 2OTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDATION OF THE INSTITUTE OF APPLIED RADIATION CHEMISTRY IN LODZ, POLAND Guest Editor:

ANDRZEJ

PLONKA

ix

Biographical

xi

List of publications

by Jerzy Kroh

History of radiation

chemistry

xix

sketch

in Lodz

377

Stochastic

389

Primary reactivity

395

Electron-ion

401

Computer simulation of the recombination of the ions in tracks of high-energy electrons in nonpolar liquids

Yu. A. Berlin, N. I. Chekunaev and V. I. Goldanskii

407

Apparent rate constant of partially diffusion-controlled reactions in disordered solids

Andrzej

411

From time-dependent

417

Ionization of liquid argon by X-rays: effect of density on electron thermalization and free ion yields

Simon M. Pimblott, Michael and Nicholas J. B. Green David

C. Walker

and Mary

J. Pilling

V. Barnabas

A. Mozumder W. M. Bartczak, and A. Hummel

M. P. de Haas

Plonka

S. S.-S. Huang, Norman Gee and Gordon R. Freeman

models of spur kinetics in water

of muons in radiation

recombination

in condensed

reactivity

tracks media

to dispersive

chemical

kinetics

vii

Contents of Volume 37 423

Photoionization acceptors

427

Reactions of silver atoms and clusters in Ag-NaA

John M. Warman, Matthijs P. de Haas, Pierre Pichat, Theodorus P. M. Koster, Etty A. van der Zouwen-Assink. Adri Meckor and Ronald Cooper

433

Electronic processes in semiconductor materials studied by nanosecond time-resolved microwave conductivity-Ill. Al,O,, MgO and TiO, powders

Roman K. Broszkiewicz, Borivoj Vojnovic and Barry D. Michael

443

Reduction of the U(VI)

Margherita Venturi, &into G. Mulazzani, Mila D’Angelantonio. Mauro and Morton 2. Hoffman

449

Radiation-induced electron-transfer processes in Ru(ll)diimine complexes in aqueous solution. An application of Marcus electron-transfer theory

457

Low reactivity of dry electron with matrix isolated N,O, observed by pulse radiolysis of solid crystalline hydrate

M. C. Sauer Jr, D. W. Werst, C. D. Jonah and A. D. Trifunac

461

Primary events in hydrocarbon radiolysis: real-time studies of radical-cation chemistry

H. R. Park, Yu. M. Lugovoi, A. Nikiforov and N. Getoff

469

Radiolysis of cyclohexene/CO

473

OH-induced oxidation complexed OH-radical

Hanna B. Ambroi, Grazyna K. Przybytniak and Teresa Wronska

479

Matrix effects in gamma-radiolysis

M. Szadkowska-Nicze

483

Excimer formation temperature

487

VUV-excited compounds

A. Faucitano, A. Buttafava, F. Martinotti, G. Marchionni and R. J. De Pasquale

493

ESR study of the gamma-radiolysis

J. Olejniczak, J. Rosiak and A. Charlesby

499

Gel/dose curves for polymers undergoing simultaneous crosslinking and scission

A. Chapiro

505

Radiation crosslinking of poly(N-vinylimidazole) in aqueous solution in the presence of N,N’-methylene-bis-acrylamide

511

Nature of peroxy radicals in polypropylene

V. A. Bagryansky and V. A. Tolkatchev

517

Transition of time-dependent bution in methylmethacrylate

G. Chen, R. A. Fouracre, H. M. Banford and D. J. Tedford

523

The effects of gamma-irradiation on thermally stimulated discharge current spectra in low-density polyethylene

A. V. Gogolev, V. P. Shilov, A. M. Fedoseev and A. K. Pikaev

531

The study of reactivity of actinide ions towards hydrated electrons and hydrogen atoms in acid aqueous solutions by a pulse radiolysis method

0.

537

Kinetics of formation and decay of 4-methyl-2.6-di-t-butylphenoxyl radicals in cyclohexane solution

549

The Stokes-Einstein

Chris Stenland

Tomasz

and Larry Kevan

Wesowicr

Zbigniew

and Jacek

Michalik

Ciano

Paws4 Zag&ski

J. Holcman, K. Bobrowski, Ch. Schiineich and K.-D.

Brian Brocklehurst. and Ian H. Munro

Asmus

and J. Mayer

Andrew

Hopkirk

and S. Galant

Hisatsugu Kashiwabara, Shigetaka Shimada and Yasuro

Brede

Robert

and L. Wojnbrovits

Schiller

in

micelles:

addition

of

charged

electron

zeolites

ion. A fast conductimetry study

system

of cycle-Met-Met.

A search for a

of organic sulphides

in irradiated hydrocarbon systems at low

luminescence

in

liquid

and

solid

organic

of perfluoropolyethers

Hori reactivity to rate-constant districompounds

law by macroscopic arguments

.

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Guest Editors: A. FAUCITANO, V

AND

J. KROH

and D. TEDFORD

Preface

551

Computational radiation chemistry: the emergence of a new field

555

Polymer matrix relaxation and kinetics of trapped species

559

Radiation induced electron loss-electron capture processes in

and L. Fabbrizzi

irradiated coordination compounds: polyazamacrocyclic

com-

plexes of Ni (II) in tetrahydrofurane and halocarbon matrices A. Buttafava,

A. Faucitano

and

567

Matrix isolation and ESR study of unstable intermediate gener-

F. Martinotti A. Faucitano,

ated by radiation techniques from metal carbonyl complexes S. Lora, F. Minto,

M. Carenza,

G. Palma

573

ESR of intermediate radicals in the solid state radiolysis of

and

polyorganophosphazenes

A. Buttafava R. A. Fouracre,

Ii. M. Banford,

D. J. Tedford,

S. Gedeon,

581

The effect of gamma-irradiation

X. Cao,

on the electrical properties of

two typical epoxy resin systems

S. Wu and L. Fu R. A. Fouracre,

H. M. Banford,

D. J. Tedford,

589

Conduction

H. M. Banford,

D. J. Tedford

and

mechanisms in epoxy resin systems: influence of

gamma-irradiation

X. Cao and S. Gedeon 599

The dielectric behaviour of polymers irradiated at 5 K

605

Transient current pulses in gamma-irradiated

M. Ayoubi H. M. Banford, Guanghui G. Degli

Esposti,

A. Faucitano P. Ferloni,

R. A. Fouracre,

polyethylene

Chen and D. J. Tedford

A. Magistris,

A. Faucitano P. F. Manfredi

611

A. Albini,

Effect of gamma irradiation on the dielectrical behaviour of polyolefines: stabilized isotactic polypropylene

and C. Busetto G. Chiodelli.

615

Effects of gamma-radiation

on polymer electrolytes: PEO and

PEO,,-LiCIO,

and A. Buttafava and V. Speriali

Effects of ionising radiation on the noise properties of electon

623

devices and monolithic circuits

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Preface Electron spin echo modulation analysis of photoproduced radical cation locations in micelles and vesicles

ix

Contents of Volume 37 Tetsuo

Miyazaki

635

Reaction of hydrogen atoms produced photolysis in solid phase at 4 and 77 K

by radiolysis

and

Kazumichi

Nakagawe

643

Photoionization

S. Mosseri

and J. C. Mialocq

653

Photochemistry and radiation chemistry of the /?-cyclodextrinZnTSPP inclusion complex

657

A mini review: fundamental aspects of spin trapping with DMPO

667

Photochemistry from higher excited states of molecules: the possible role of Rydberg-like states

673

Radiation- and photoinduced water. A comparative study

681

Effects of vacuum ultraviolet radiation on deoxyoligonucleotides in solids in the wavelength region around and above ionization potential-with special reference to the chain scission

691

Chemical processes induced by OH attack on nucleic acids

Prashant V. Kamat and Jean-Paul Chauvet

705

Photoelectrochemical sensitization and spectroscopic properties of reduced and oxidized forms of a chlorophyll analogue

K. F. Baverstock

and R. B. Cundall

711

An assessment of possible energy migration mechanisms in irradiated DNA

M. Berger, J. Cadet, E. Keskinova and S. Solar

717

Comparison of the effects of high-power u.v.-laser pulses and ionizing radiation on nucleic acids and related compounds

Keisuke Makino, Takuya and Akira Murakami Gottfried

Nikola

Takashi

Mikinori

Hagiwara

Kiihler

Getoff

Ito and Mikio

Saito

Kuwabara

D. Angelov, N. Getoff,

processes in nonpolar media: density effect

degradation

aromatic

of pollutants

in