Water-like Anomalies and Phase Behavior of a Pair Potential that Stabilizes Diamond

2015 ◽  
Vol 120 (8) ◽  
pp. 1649-1659 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andressa A. Bertolazzo ◽  
Abhinaw Kumar ◽  
Charusita Chakravarty ◽  
Valeria Molinero
Author(s):  
Ali Aminian

This study aims to use Perturbed-Chain Statistical Associating Fluid Theory (PC-SAFT) to describe the phase behavior of systems containing DESs and ILs. The DESs are based on Tetrabutylammonium chloride ([N4444]Cl) and Tetrabutylammonium bromide (TBAB) as hydrogen bond acceptors, and levulinic acid (LevA) and Diethylene Glycol (DEG) as hydrogen bond donors in the mole ratio of 1:2 and 1:4, respectively. The predicted phase equilibrium data from PC-SAFT has been compared to those from COSMO-RS and NRTL predictions. ILs studied in this work are low viscosity ether-functionalized pyridinium-based ILs [EnPy][NTf2] and [CmPy][NTf2], while 1-(2-methoxyethyl)-1-methylpyrrolidiniumbis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)-amide) ([COC2mPYR][NTf2]) and 1-propyl-3-methylimidazolium bis{trifluoromethylsulfonyl}imide ([Pmim][NTf2]) were used for the study of the LLE systems with n-heptane + thiophene and n-hexane + ethylbenzene, respectively. In the last part, mixtures of linear alkanes and perfluoroalkanes have been studied to predict the phase behavior of perfluoroalkylalkanes with their linear alkane counterparts and comparisons have been made against SAFT-Mie pair potential.


1999 ◽  
Vol 111 (21) ◽  
pp. 9882-9890 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. F. Rosenbaum ◽  
Amit Kulkarni ◽  
S. Ramakrishnan ◽  
C. F. Zukoski

Author(s):  
E. Naranjo

Equilibrium vesicles, those which are the stable form of aggregation and form spontaneously on mixing surfactant with water, have never been demonstrated in single component bilayers and only rarely in lipid or surfactant mixtures. Designing a simple and general method for producing spontaneous and stable vesicles depends on a better understanding of the thermodynamics of aggregation, the interplay of intermolecular forces in surfactants, and an efficient way of doing structural characterization in dynamic systems.


1998 ◽  
Vol 95 (3) ◽  
pp. 471-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
GREG GROCHOLA SALVY RUSSO IAN SNOOK
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Author(s):  
Md. Hamidul Kabir ◽  
Ravshan Makhkamov ◽  
Shaila Kabir

The solution properties and phase behavior of ammonium hexylene octyl succinate (HOS) was investigated in water and water-oil system. The critical micelle concentration (CMC) of HOS is lower than that of anionic surfactants having same carbon number in the lipophilic part. The phase diagrams of a water/ HOS system and water/ HOS/ C10EO8/ dodecane system were also constructed. Above critical micelle concentration, the surfactant forms a normal micellar solution (Wm) at a low surfactant concentration whereas a lamellar liquid crystalline phase (La) dominates over a wide region through the formation of a two-phase region (La+W) in the binary system. The lamellar phase is arranged in the form of a biocompatible vesicle which is very significant for the drug delivery system. The surfactant tends to be hydrophilic when it is mixed with C10EO8 and a middle-phase microemulsion (D) is appeared in the water-surfactant-dodecane system where both the water and oil soluble drug ingredient can be incorporated in the form of a dispersion. Hence, mixing can tune the hydrophile-lipophile properties of the surfactant. Key words: Ammonium hexylene octyl succinate, mixed surfactant, lamellar liquid crystal, middle-phase microemulsion. Dhaka Univ. J. Pharm. Sci. Vol.3(1-2) 2004 The full text is of this article is available at the Dhaka Univ. J. Pharm. Sci. website


2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 2843-2852
Author(s):  
Sujeet Kumar Chatterjee ◽  
Lokesh Chandra Prasad ◽  
Ajaya Bhattarai

The observed asymmetric behaviour of mixing of  NaCd liquid alloys around equiatomic composition with smaller negative values for free energy of mixing at compound forming concentration, i.e. GMXS = -4.9KJ at Ccd =0.66 has  aroused our interest to undertake a theoretical investigation of this system.A simple statistical mechanical theory based on compound formation model has been used to investigate the energetics of formation of intermetallic compound Cd2Na in the melt through the study of entropy of mixing.Besides, the interionic interactions between component atoms Na and Cd of the alloys have been understood through the study of interionic pair potential фij(r), calculated from pseudopotential theory in the light of CF model.Our study of фij(r) suggest that the effective interaction between Na-Na atoms decreases on alloying with Cd atom, being minimum for compound forming alloy( Cd 0.66 Na 0.34 ).The nearest neighbor distance between Na-Na atoms does not alter on alloying. Like wise Na-Na,  effective interaction between  Cd-Cd atom decreases from pure state to NaCd alloys, being smaller at compound forming  concentration Cd 0.66 Na 0.34.The computed values of SM from pseudopotential theory are positive at all concentrations, but the agreement between theory and experimental is not satisfactory. This might be happening due to parameterisation of σ3 and Ψcompound.


Author(s):  
Jun Pei ◽  
Zheng Zheng ◽  
Hyunji Kim ◽  
Lin Song ◽  
Sarah Walworth ◽  
...  

An accurate scoring function is expected to correctly select the most stable structure from a set of pose candidates. One can hypothesize that a scoring function’s ability to identify the most stable structure might be improved by emphasizing the most relevant atom pairwise interactions. However, it is hard to evaluate the relevant importance for each atom pair using traditional means. With the introduction of machine learning methods, it has become possible to determine the relative importance for each atom pair present in a scoring function. In this work, we use the Random Forest (RF) method to refine a pair potential developed by our laboratory (GARF6) by identifying relevant atom pairs that optimize the performance of the potential on our given task. Our goal is to construct a machine learning (ML) model that can accurately differentiate the native ligand binding pose from candidate poses using a potential refined by RF optimization. We successfully constructed RF models on an unbalanced data set with the ‘comparison’ concept and, the resultant RF models were tested on CASF-2013.5 In a comparison of the performance of our RF models against 29 scoring functions, we found our models outperformed the other scoring functions in predicting the native pose. In addition, we used two artificial designed potential models to address the importance of the GARF potential in the RF models: (1) a scrambled probability function set, which was obtained by mixing up atom pairs and probability functions in GARF, and (2) a uniform probability function set, which share the same peak positions with GARF but have fixed peak heights. The results of accuracy comparison from RF models based on the scrambled, uniform, and original GARF potential clearly showed that the peak positions in the GARF potential are important while the well depths are not. <br>


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