Size polydispersity of immature human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) particles represents a challenge for traditional methods of biological ultrastructural analysis. An in vitro model for immature HIV-1 particles constructed from recombinant Gag proteins lacking residues 16-99 and the p6 domain assembled around spherical nanoparticles functionalized with DNA. This template-directed assem...

The possibility to use sucrose solutions as medium for X-ray and neutron small-angle scattering experiments has been explored for dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) vesicles and mixed DMPC/C12E8 aggregates. The influence of sucrose concentration on phospholipid vesicles size and polydispersity has been investigated by complimentary X-ray and neutron scattering. Sucrose solutions decreased ve...

Capillary electrophoresis (CE) was used to study the polydispersity of TX-100/SDS and C12E8/SDS micelle systems. Compared with other techniques, CE provides more specific and graphically detailed information on the compositional polydispersity of such micellar systems. Clear evidence of the coexistence of micelles rich in either nonionic or anionic component has been obtained. This coexistence ...

A detailed model was developed for the emulsion copolymerization of styrene and MMA to predict the evolution of the particle size distribution (PSD) and molecular weight distribution (MWD) over the entire range of monomer conversion. A system exhibiting zero-one kinetics was employed. The model was used to optimise the emulsion copolymerization process in order to maximize particle size polydis...

The nucleation and growth of niobium pentaethoxide (NPE)-derived clusters in ethanol, through acid-catalyzed hydrolysis/condensation in the presence and absence of the silsesquioxane 1,2-bis(triethoxysilyl)ethane (BTESE), was monitored at 298-333 K by small-angle X-ray scattering. The data were analyzed with a newly derived model for polydisperse mass-fractal-like structures. At 298-313 K in th...

Monte Carlo simulations of mono– and polydisperse two–dimensional crystals are reported. The particles in the studied system, interacting through hard–core repulsive Yukawa potential, form a solid phase of hexagonal lattice. The elastic properties of crystalline Yukawa systems are determined in the NpT ensemble with variable shape of the periodic box. Effects of the Debye screening length (κ), ...

Photoinitiated polymerization of styrene in oil/water microemulsions has been successfully performed by using dibenzyl ketone (DBK) as initiator. The system remains transparent during the whole polymerization process. The molecular weights of polymers produced are in the order of IO5, and the polydispersity indexes (PDI) are in the range 1.6-2.2. The particle sizes of the latexes produced are i...

Two dinuclear cobalt complexes based on bis-diketonate ligands (ligand 1: 3,3'-(1,3-phenylene)bis(1-phenylpropane-1,3-dione); ligand 2: 3,3'-(1,4-phenylene)bis(1-phenylpropane-1,3-dione)) were successfully synthesized. The two neutral catalysts all showed satisfactory activities in the cobalt-mediated radical polymerization (CMRP) of methyl methacrylate (MMA) with the common initiator of azodii...