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Lecithin organogels as model carriers of pharmaceuticals
Lecithin microemulsion based organogels (MGs) formulated with cellulose derivatives such as hydroxypropylmethyl cellulose (HPMC) and hydroxypropyl...
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Inelastic Nuclear Resonant Scattering
Soon after the discovery of the M⊙ssbauer effect it became clear that nuclear resonant absorption would be a very sensitive tool for the...
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14. Multi-Grid Methods – An Introduction
The lecture will give an introductory overview on multi-grid methods. Multi-grid methods are fast solvers for algebraic equations derived from the...
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8. Magnetism, Structure and Interactions at the Atomic Scale
An efficient scheme is developed to study magnetism and structure as well as interaction between supported particles on the atomic scale. Starting by...
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Simulation of Charged Colloids in Solution
Physicochemical properties of solutions of charged colloids are often dominated by the electrostatic interactions present in such systems. A full...
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What Has Theory and Crystallography Revealed About the Mechanism of Catalysis by Orotidine Monophosphate Decarboxylase?
In 1995, Wolfenden and Radzicka showed that orotidine 5′-monophosphate decarboxylase (ODCase) was the most proficient enzyme. Since then, the...
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Structure of Polymer Melts and Blends: Comparison of Integral Equation Theory and Computer Simulations
This review covers the most recent developments using the Polymer Reference Interaction Site Model (PRISM) integral equation theory to study polymer...
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Supramolecular Organization of Foldable Phenylene Ethynylene Oligomers
This review summarizes the supramolecular organization of foldable phenylene ethynylene (PE) oligomers and polymers. m-Phenylene ethynylenes (mPEs)...
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Simple Dipolar Fluids as Generic Models for Soft Matter
The physical properties, based on simulation results, of model fluids and solids bearing an electric or magnetic point dipole moment are described....
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Controlled Synthesis of High Quality Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Synthesis of high quality semiconductor nanocrystals is discussed in this chapter. Although the focus is on the recent progress in synthesis of...
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Crystal Engineering Using Multiple Hydrogen Bonds
Crystal engineering is the branch of supramolecular chemistry concerned with the design and synthesis of extended structures with predictable form...
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Catalysis by Enzyme Conformational Change
An energy decomposition scheme is presented to elucidate the importance of the change of protein conformation substates to the reduction of...
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Applications of Evolutionary Computation in Structure Determination from Diffraction Data
Evolutionary algorithms are finding increasing use in the study of a wide range of different types of diffraction data. In this chapter, we review...
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Insight into the Catalytic Mechanism of Orotidine 5′-phosphate Decarboxylase from Crystallography and Mutagenesis
With a half-time of 78 million years at room temperature, the spontaneous decarboxylation of orotidine 5′-phosphate (OMP) is among the slowest...
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The association between a non-ionic microemulsion and hydrophobically modified PEG. A rheological investigation
The thickening effect of a hydrophobically modified polymer in an O/W microemulsion is investigated. The hydrophobically modified polymer is a...
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Charge inversion of latex particles in the presence of electrolyte
Recent studies have demonstrated the huge interest in the inversion of charge in systems such as solid particles, DNA molecules, charged membranes,...
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Transitions in ternary surfactant/alkane/water microemulsions as viewed by fluorescence
Fluorescent probes incorporated in ternary surfactant systems have proved valuable in elucidating structure, dynamics and phase behaviour. The...
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Phase behaviour and domain structure of 9-hydroxyhexadecanoic acid monolayers
The temperature effect on the surface pressure (π)-molecular area (A) isotherms and the texture of the condensed phase domains of...
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Interactions in systems with short-range attractions and applications to protein crystallisation
The problem of phase behaviour of solutions of globular proteins is approached by means of a Hard Core Yukawa fluid model with short-ranged...
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Electrochemical determination of the stability constant of an aryl radical with β-cyclodextrin
Addition of β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) to an aqueous acid solution of p-nitrobenzenediazonium (PNBD) tetrafluoroborate causes a substantial decrease in...