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Is there any method or technique to systematically heat a liquid e.g. water? Temperature increase is not certainly the accepted answer.
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What kind of interaction is possible between SDS and Ag+?
04 April 2014 5,340 5 View
I have a question about how to determine the order of a phase transition in a thought experiment. The phase transition I'm thinking is about the shape transition of thin films. Imagine you have...
21 March 2014 2,402 53 View
Dear colleagues, Following the first Dynasoft 2008 and 2010 schools, held in August 2008 and August 2010 in Cargèse (Corsica, France), we are pleased to announce the Summer School Soft-FIRE (July...
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The article below states 'the affinity for the clay surface decreased with increasing number of ethylene oxide units'. Likely it is meant relatively to solubility in water. It further states that...
02 February 2014 10,019 2 View
In the acid condition, is thiol easily oxidized to disulfide or any others? I prepared 2-propanol solution containing dodecanethiol for SAM. I checked the thiol group before and after addition of...
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Can we judge the microemulsion just by the naked eye?
10 October 2013 8,956 1 View
For example how to decide these PEs such as PAA, PAH etc. are weak PEs ?
10 October 2013 9,510 7 View
It worked really well for simple and complex fluids including colloidal suspensions, polymer melts etc. I am just wondering will it give the similar quantitative relaxation time scale for solid...
16 September 2013 2,566 1 View
Micelles / vesicles are aggregates of surfactant monomers.
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I want to estimate the radius of gyration Rg of PEO polymer with Mw 4*10^6 a.m.u. and also the overlapping concentration c*, according to Rg=N^(3/5)*a, where a is the length of a monomer and N is...
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I mean: is glass transition a superimposition of phase transitions due to different energies of the SiO2 covalent bonds? In other words, is glass a poly-nano-crystal?
06 June 2013 3,500 23 View
Does anyone can give me any document where a proper way of coarse-graining is presented for entangled polymer dynamics from atomistic simulations, without any input from the tube picture? In...
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In X-ray study, normally the bilayer repeat distance is determined (shown as D in this paper (Nagle, J.F. and S. Tristram-Nagle, Lipid bilayer structure. Current opinion in structural biology,...
23 March 2013 5,330 1 View
Could anyone provide a useful resource explaining how to investigate the internal structure and morphology of the soft matter or polymers?
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Is there a theory describing the way micelles or liposomes or bubbles coalesce in air and the dynamics ? In general I'm interested in the coalescence of spherical objects made of a monolayer with...
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