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Record W4408108382 · doi:10.1063/5.0256552

Practical analysis of diffuse scattering patterns of inhomogeneous liquids

2025· article· en· W4408108382 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenuePhysics of Fluids · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPhysics and Astronomy
TopicOptical and Acousto-Optic Technologies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Guelph
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsPhysicsScatteringStatistical physicsComputational physicsOptics

Abstract

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A simple analytical model for the analysis of diffuse small-angle scattering data is proposed in this work to characterize the structure of colloidal suspensions of water mixtures of organic solvents and amphiphiles. A fractal structure factor term describing the low q region was incorporated in the analytical function, which includes a particle diameter variable within the power-law decay term of the scattering intensity as a function of the scattering vector. This decay was associated with not only scattering from either surface or mass fractals but could also model the signal decay within a fluid more accurately than the Ornstein–Zernike, Debye–Anderson–Brumberger, or Teubner and Strey analytical models. This low q region also displayed a Guinier component (curvature) arising from the form factor of the scattering objects, considered here as spheres. Patterns also displayed a broad Gaussian peak at higher q associated with the aggregation of micelles within the fluid responsible for the formation of the mass or surface fractals. Each term (power-law, Guinier, and Gaussian) contained a diameter term, which was then shared among all three functions. Parameter sharing stabilized the numerical fits of the model to the data and provided an accurate estimate of the average size of the scattering object or the inhomogeneity in the fluid. Examples of the use of the model in the study of the separation of water-soluble organic solvent contaminants from water are given and used for the purpose of developing strategies for the remediation of polluted groundwater.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.557
Threshold uncertainty score0.488

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.287
Teacher spread0.272 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it