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New controlled release systems produced by self-assembly of biopolymers and colloidal particles at fluid-fluid interfaces
The fluctuations of highly permeable interfaces, encountered in phase-separated biopolymer solutions, liposomes, polymersomes, or colloidosomes, are investigated. An expression for the power spectrum of the height correlation function is derived for a multicomponent system, incorporating the effects of mass transfer across the interface, using nonequilibrium thermodynamics. We also derive an expression for the relaxation time of the height correlation function, and calculate the relaxation time for a phase-separated gelatin-dextran-water system. Comparing our expression with the expression for an impermeable interface shows that mass transfer has a significant impact on the relaxation time of the interface. [hide]
Scientific Board
Andreas Bausch
TU Munich, Germany ►
Peter Fischer
ETH Zurich, Switzerland ►
Anne-Marie Hermansson
SIK, Sweden ►
Martin Kroger
ETH Zurich, Germany/Switzerland ►
Erik van der Linden
Wageningen UR, The Netherlands ►
Niklas Loren
SIK, Sweden ►
Leonard Sagis
Wageningen UR, The Netherlands ►
Erich Windhab
ETH Zurich, Switzerland ►
Klaas-Jan Zuidam
Unilever, The Netherlands ►
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Manuela Duxenneuner
ETH Zurich, Switzerland ►
Sophia Fransson
SIK, Sweden ►
Nam-Phuong Humblet-Hua
Wageningen UR, The Netherlands ►
Joeska Husny
ETH Zurich, Australia/Switzerland ►
Orit Peleg
ETH Zurich, Israel/Switzerland ►
Cyrille Vezy
TU Munich, Germany ►
Varvara Mitropoulos
ETH Zurich, Switzerland ►
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CURRENT BIOLOGY 19 (2009) R745 ►Selected conferences (co-)organized by project members
8th World Congress on Computational Mechanics WCCM8 2008
30 June - 5 July 2007, Venice, Italy ►13 May 2025
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