The solution self-assembly of macromolecular amphiphiles offers an efficient, bottom-up strategy for producing well-defined nanocarriers, with applications ranging from drug delivery to nanoreactors. Typically, the generation of uniform nanocarrier architectures is controlled by processing methods that rely on cosolvent mixtures. These preparation strategies hinge on the assumption that macromo...

Fractionation of plant compounds to produce active purified fractions is a multi-step process, time-consuming and sometimes very expensive. This paper presents a single-step fractionation of tannins from a local plant, Phyllanthus niruri Linn. using supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) method. The effects of operating conditions (pressure, temperature, flow rate, cosolvent content and ethanol-w...

The biosynthetic utilization of laccase/mediator system is problematic because the use of organic cosolvent causes significant inhibition of laccase activity. This work explored how the organic cosolvent impacts on the laccase catalytic capacity towards 2,2'-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) (ABTS) in aqueous solution. Effects of acetone on the kinetic constants of laccase were ...

The theory and results of solvent structure control on solute behavior for ordinary chemical reactions, generated in other laboratories (e.g. by Arnett and colleagues), were applied to enzyme reactions in water-organic cosolvent binary mixtures. Three kinds of reactions were studied: (a) catalysis of substrate reactions; (b) denaturation, judged by loss of overall activity; (c) renaturation, ai...

In this paper we report classical Molecular Dynamics and ab initio Density Functional Theory simulations of the structure single particle dynamics ternary mixtures a protic (ethylammonium nitrate, EAN) an aprotic (1-Ethyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate, EMIMBF4) ionic liquid, lithium salts with common anion molecular cosolvent, dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO). The coordination numbers electric...

Supercritical fluids have found applications in a wide variety of fields, from solvents for reaction media to engineering of nanoparticles. They are also of interest in the analytical field for transferring non-volatile organic molecules into the gas phase for detection and deposition purposes. This work highlights the use of supercritical fluids as an analytical tool for the transfer of a grou...

Why reaction rate constants for enzymatic reactions are typically inversely proportional to fractional power exponents of solvent viscosity remains to be already a thirty years old puzzle. Available interpretations of the phenomenon have not led to consensus among researches about its origin. They invoke to either a modification of 1. the conventional Kramers’ theory or that of 2. the Stokes la...