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Theory on the Collapse Pressure of Mixed Insoluble Monolayers with Miscible Components

✍ Scribed by P. Joos


Publisher
Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
Year
2010
Weight
437 KB
Volume
78
Category
Article
ISSN
0037-9646

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✦ Synopsis


Using the chemical potential of each component in the surface and the bulk phases an equation was deduced, which allows to predict the collapse pressure of a mixed insoluble monolayer with miscible components, from the collapse pressure of each component separately. It was shown that the collapse of a mixed monolayer, is completely analogue to the distillation or crystallisation from a mixture. The equation deduced previously by Crisp is only of limited value. The present theory allows to investigate interaction at the interface. The theory was illustrated by a few systems cholesterol/cholanic acid, disteraoyllecithin/choles- terol, desoxycholic acid/tripalmitin and soybean lecithin/oleic acid.