We derive a Landau free energy functional for polymeric mixtures containing components with different sequence statistics. We then apply this general field theory to two mixtures that belong to the Ising universality class: mixtures of two different linear random copolymers, and ternary systems of linear random copolymers and two homopolymers. We discuss the instability conditions for the homog...

We investigate miscibility transitions of two different ternary lipid mixtures, DOPC/DPPC/Chol and POPC/PSM/Chol. In vesicles, both of these mixtures of an unsaturated lipid, a saturated lipid, and cholesterol form micron-scale domains of immiscible liquid phases for only a limited range of compositions. In contrast, in monolayers, both of these mixtures produce two distinct regions of immiscib...

Experimental solubilities of acetaminophen and ibuprofen in polyethylene glycol 600-water, ethanol-polyethylene glycol 600, and polyethylene glycol 600-water-ethanol mixtures at 25 degrees Celsius are reported. The solubilities of drugs in the presence of ethanol and polyethylene glycol 600 were increased. The Jouyban-Acree model was used to fit the solubility data of each drug in the binary mi...

In part 1 of this series (ref 1) we presented a qualitative thermodynamic description of the phase behavior of quaternary mixtures of water, nonpolar solvents, nonionic amphiphiles, and salts. The phase behavior of such mixtures follows general patterns that are essentially determined by the phase diagrams of the corresponding binary and ternary mixtures. In this paper (part 2) the nonionic amp...

densities and excess molar volume of the binary and ternary mixtures formed by nbutylacetate+ 1-butanol + 1,2-butanediol were measured at (298.15, 303.15, and 308.15) k forthe liquid region and at ambient pressure (81.5) k pa , for the whole composition range. theexcess molar volumes,vme and excess partial molar volume vie ,were calculated fromexperimental densities.the excess molar volumes are...

Phospholipids having a polyunsaturated acyl chain are abundant in biological membranes, but their behavior in lipid mixtures is difficult to study. Here we elucidate the nature of such mixtures with this report of the first ternary phase diagram containing the polyunsaturated lipid SDPC in mixtures of BSM/SDPC/Chol (brain sphingomyelin/1-stearoyl-2-docosahexaenoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine/ch...