We present a general method to quantify coatings on microparticle surfaces based on the additional mass. Particle buoyant mass is determined in a solution with a density that is nearly equivalent to that of the core particle, reducing the magnitude and uncertainty of the measurement. Under these conditions, added material with a different density than that of the core is a larger fraction of th...

Microspheres are one of the novel drug delivery system and are formulated conveniently to obtain prolonged or controlled drug delivery to enhance the bioavailability and target drug to the specific sites. Ritonavir loaded ethylcellulose buoyant microspheres were formulated using ethylcellulose as rate retarding material. Buoyant microspheres were formulated by emulsion solvent diffusion method....

this article deals with the study of the two-dimensional mixed convection magnetohydrodynamic (mhd) boundary layer of stagnation-point flow over a stretching vertical plate in porous medium filled with a nanofluid. the model used for the nanofluid incorporates the effects of brownian motion and thermophoresis in the presence of thermal radiation. the skin-friction coefficient, nusselt number an...

This paper tests three hypotheses forthe origin of the tectosphere. Continental collision cannot explain the low metamorphic grade of crust that predates the tectosphere. Halfspace cooling and buoyant underplating can both fit the diamond age data, although underplating by buoyant subduction is the favored model. Thermal models provide a further test. If halfspace cooling formed the teetosphere...

Extracts of sonically disrupted Mycoplasma mycoides and Escherichia coli were fractionated by sucrose density gradient centrifugation. The presence of antigen in each of the fractions was determined by complement-fixation and agar-gel diffusion precipitin tests, in which cow, pig, and rabbit anti-M. mycoides sera and rabbit anti-E. coli serum were used. Fractions of M. mycoides, with a buoyant ...

The approach to equilibrium in a buoyant-density gradient is a transport process in a centrifugal field and may be used to measure a sedimentation coefficient. This process is interesting for several reasons. Densitygradient sedimentation equilibrium can be used for the determination of the molecular weight of high-molecular weight DNA samples homogeneous in buoyant density. Furthermore, buoyan...

Buoyant unstable behavior in initially spherical lean hydrogen-air premixed flames within a center-ignited combustion vessel have been studied experimentally under a wide range of pressures (including reduced, normal, and elevated pressures). The experimental observations show that the flame front of lean hydrogen-air premixed flames will not give rise to the phenomenon of cellular instability ...

The near-field structure of strongly buoyant jet issuing from a square nozzle at low Froude and Reynolds numbers is studied by using three-dimensional LIF flow visualization and scanning PIV. These experimental techniques allow the visualization of unsteady three-dimensional flow phenomenon occurring in the near-field of strongly buoyant jet. It is found that the buoyant jet is unstable to the ...

This paper presents a set of laboratory experiments focused on how a buoyant coastal current flowing over a sloping bottom interacts with a canyon and what controls the separation, if any, of the current from the upstream canyon bend. The results show that the separation of a buoyant coastal current depends on the current widthW relative to the radius of curvature of the bathymetry rc. The flow...