The miscibility and phase behavior of hydrated binary mixtures of two N-acylethanolamines (NAEs), N-myristoylethanolamine (NMEA), and N-palmitoylethanolamine (NPEA), with the corresponding diacyl phosphatidylethanolamines (PEs), dimyristoylphosphatidylethanolamine (DMPE), and dipalmitoylphosphatidylethanolamine (DPPE), respectively, have been investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (D...

Recent work has shown that poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and the surface-functionalized fullerene 1-(3-methyloxycarbonyl)propyl(1-phenyl[6,6])C(61) (PCBM) are much more miscible than originally thought, and the evidence of this miscibility requires a return to understanding the optimal morphology and structure of organic photovoltaic active layers. This manuscript describes the results of exper...

This chapter reviews recent studies on blends of conventional cellulose esters (CEs), such as cellulose acetate (CA), cellulose propionate (CP), and cellulose butyrate (CB), with non-crystalline vinyl (co)polymers mainly comprising the N-vinyl pyrrolidone (VP) unit. The mixing behavior of the CE/VP-containing copolymer blends is seriously affected by the chain length (i.e., carbon number) and d...

We fit the size distribution of liquid-ordered (L(o)) domains measured from fluorescence images of model cytoplasmic myelin monolayers with an equilibrium thermodynamic expression that includes the competing effects of line tension, λ, dipole density difference, Δm, and the mixing entropy. From these fits, we extract the line tension, λ, and dipole density difference, Δm, between the L(o) and l...

The two families of systems formed by silver halides with alkali Chromates and tungstates have been systematically investigated in order to bring into evidence possible demixing phenomena. It has been found that silver chloride demixes with lithium Chromate and tungstate and with sodium tungstate; silver bromide demixes with lithium and sodium Chromates and tungstates; silver iodide demixes wit...