The dynamical evolution of spatial patterns in a complex system can reveal the underlying structure and stability of stationary states. As a model system we employ a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate at the transition from miscible to immiscible with the additional control of linear interconversion. Excellent agreement is found between the detailed experimental time evolution and the corre...

Membranes containing a wide variety of ternary mixtures of high chain-melting temperature lipids, low chain-melting temperature lipids, and cholesterol undergo lateral phase separation into coexisting liquid phases at a miscibility transition. When membranes are prepared from a ternary lipid mixture at a critical composition, they pass through a miscibility critical point at the transition temp...

The binder plays the most important role in the metal injection molding (MIM) process. It provides fluidity of the feedstock mixture and adhesion of the powder to keep the molded shape during injection molding. The binder must provide strength and cohesion for the molded part and must be easy to remove from the molded part. Moreover, it must be recyclable, environmentally friendly and economica...

The miscibility of triolein and cholesteryl oleate with 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl phosphatidylcholine was studied at the argon-buffer interface. The surface phase behavior of the system was analogous to that for cholesteryl ester-phospholipid mixtures in that both monolayer and double layer surface phases were formed. By considering the bulk properties of cholesteryl oleatetriolein mixtures and the ...

Mixed Langmuir monolayers are ideal systems to mimic biological membranes [1, 2]. Studies on mixed monolayers provide information about the interactions involved, miscibility and stability of the monolayer. It is known that cholesterol(Ch) is found in bilayer membranes and lipoproteins. Ch regulates the transport and barrier properties of the membranes [3]. Lung surfactant in the human body is ...

Molecular simulations are conducted to determine the limits of miscibility of a valence force field model for zinc-blende-structured In12x2yGaxAlyN semiconductor alloys. The transition matrix Monte Carlo method is used to calculate the free energy of the model alloys as a function of temperature and alloy composition ~considering both x and y ranging from zero to unity!. Analysis of the free-en...

Six BiOX1-xYx (X, Y = F, Cl, Br, and I) solid solutions have been systematically investigated by density functional theory calculations. BiOCl1-xBrx, BiOBr1-xIx, and BiOCl1-xIx solid solutions have very small bowing parameters; as such, some of their properties increase almost linearly with increasing x. For BiOF1-xYx solid solutions, the bowing parameters are very large and it is extremely dif...