Data for H2CO‐EDTA electroless copper plating baths were correlated byrnormalp=2.81normalCu2+0.43HCHO0.16OH−0.70EDTA0.04exp][11.5)(T−313TThis rate law was compared with published data for EDTA and Rochelle salt baths. Mass transport effects and/or substrate catalytic activity were shown to explain some of the differences among the various authors.

Although the range of applications for gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) is growing rapidly, the study of the diffusion in different solvents is rare. This paper describes the translational diffusion coefficient of Au NPs inside toluene and water measured by dynamic light scattering. The size of the nanoparticles is examined by transmission electron microscopy and compared with the hydrodynamic radius. The diffusion of the nanoparticles is measured in different angles and temperatures in the two solvents. It is shown that the diffusion measured in both systems obeys Arrhenius relation with the temperature. Although the viscosity of toluene is higher than that of water, the Au NPs are found to diffuse faster in toluene.

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The logarithmic relaxation process is the slowest of all relaxation processes and is exhibited by only a few molecular liquids and proteins. Bulk salol, which is a glass-forming liquid, is known to exhibit logarithmic decay of intermediate scattering function for the β-relaxation process. In this article, we report the influence of nanoscale confinements on the logarithmic relaxation process and changes in the microscopic glass-transition temperature of salol in the carbon and silica nanopores. The generalized vibrational density-of-states of the confined salol indicates that the interaction of salol with ordered nanoporous carbon is hydrophilic in nature whereas the interaction with silica surfaces is more hydrophobic. The mode-coupling theory critical temperature derived from the QENS data shows that the dynamic transition occurs at much lower temperature in the carbon pores than in silica pores. The results of this study indicate that, under nano-confinements, liquids that display logarithmic β-relaxation phenomenon undergo a unique glass transition process.

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