Sentences with phrase «phase separation»

Using a combination of genetics and physics, we have discovered that a principle underlying the organization of these structures is liquid - liquid phase separation.

Rather, the mutation produces an abnormal version of a protein involved in a process called phase separation in cells.

Other cellular structures, including some involved in disease, are also organized by phase separation.

When temperatures drop, phase separation occurs at a lower water concentration level.

Now, researchers have examined the onset of phase separation defects in oxide thin films and found that defect formation can be delayed by the surface on which a film is grown.

The result is that the concentration and phase separation does not occur.

You may wish to read up on gasoline ethanol phase separation.

Interestingly, this type of liquid - liquid phase separation is very sensitive to changes in temperature, protein concentration, and pH levels.

It also contains a substantial amount of protein which helps with the blending and seems to be crucial in preventing a grainy texture (i.e. phase separation of fat and water from the cream).

«The repellent and binder mix together well enough to make a clear coating, but there's a very small amount of phase separation between them,» said Mathew Boban, a materials science and engineering graduate researcher and an author on the paper.

This requires the optimisation of parameters including polymer concentration, phase separation process, etch mask deposition, and etch recipes.

Resume: Block copolymers (BCPs) are an exciting class of soft materials that enable controlled phase separation and nanoscale self - assembly of designer macromolecules for applications ranging from thermoplastic elastomers and membranes to nanocapsules for drug delivery.

For example, our patents and pending patent applications describe the handling of mixed feedstocks in multiple process reaction steps, where each of those steps is at different conditions, such as pressure and temperature, with phase separation in between the process steps.

Recent studies have provided compelling evidence that membrane-less organelles have liquid - like properties and form by liquid de-mixing in a process called phase separation.

That design - driven kneading attribute results in a more effective, better blended product than a ready - to - use infant formula, which can experience phase separation including creaming at the top and sediment at the bottom.

«We needed a very smooth surface that interacts as little as possible with a variety of liquids, and we also needed ingredients that mix together very well, because too much phase separation between ingredients will scatter light.»

And its extremely precise level of phase separation makes it optically clear.

So it was a big surprise in 2008 when participants in the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) Physiology course realized that simple phase separations — like oil separating from water — may be one important way to create order inside a cell.

Such phase separation explains why anise - flavored liqueurs such as pastis and ouzo go cloudy when diluted with water; the cloudiness actually consists of tiny droplets of one phase suspended in the other.

He intends to fit his gas phase separation apparatus onto a «flyaway lab»: a skid that can be deployed quickly in the event of an attack.

Researchers from LSU, Fudan University, the University of Florida and the Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures in Nanjing, China, conducted research on materials that separate into different regions through a process called electronic phase separation, which is poorly understood.

The researchers noted that abnormal phase separation may also underlie Alzheimer's disease.

To identify and structurally characterize biomolecules from complex samples, we perform rapid (µs - ms) two - dimensional gas - phase separations using ion mobility - mass spectrometry (IM - MS) techniques.

FUS Phase Separation Is Modulated by a Molecular Chaperone and Methylation of Arginine Cation - π Interactions, Cell (2018).

Our experimental and computational data reveal that a high fill factor is obtained only when χaa is large enough to lead to strong phase separation.

We employed self - assembly of Si NDs where ion beam mixing transfers SiO2 to SiOx and subsequent phase separation forms the Si NC in the c - Si / SiO2 / a-Si nanopillar.

High - Performance PSF - b - PEG Membranes by Combination of Selective Swelling and Nonsolvent - Induced Phase Separation

to increase the awareness for how important phase separation is for our understanding of many biological processes

Phase Separation Conditions for Sugaring - Out in Acetonitrile - Water Systems, Pradip Dhamole, Prafulla Mahajan, Hao Feng, Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data, 55 (9), pp. 3803 - 3806, May 19, 2010.

«Our insight is that we have to find a balance which avoids cellulose dehydration but allows phase separation,» Langan said.

By ferreting out this mechanistic connection between the mutations, the loss of protein's proper phase separation behavior and how it frees molecules up to aggregate, the team shows how the mutations could lead to disease, Fawzi said.

«Sub-cellular compartmentalization by phase separation completely changes people's understanding of cell biology,» she says.

Chromatin organization by phase separation means that proteins are targeted to one liquid or the other based not on size, but on other physical traits, like charge, flexibility, and interaction partners.»

Researchers found that liquid - liquid phase separation helps heterochromatin organize large parts of the genome into specific regions of the nucleus.

An exploration of double diffusive convection in Jupiter as a result of hydrogen - helium phase separation.

«Our results show that Transportin is not only responsible for delivering FUS into the nucleus, it also acts to stabilize proteins like FUS, which have a marked tendency to undergo phase separation,» Dormann explains.

In the new study, she and her colleagues have now shown that FUS aggregation results from a liquid - liquid phase separation analogous to the gradual coalescence of oil droplets dispersed in an oil - water emulsion.

«Furthermore, accumulating evidence strongly supports the idea that other proteins implicated in the pathology of neurodegenerative disorders can form aggregates via phase separation,» Dormann points out.

When phase separation occurs, the octane rating of the remaining fuel can drop by as much as three points.

Alf Honigmann, Sina Sadeghi, Jan Keller, Stefan W. Hell, Christian Eggeling, Richard Vink A lipid bound actin meshwork organizes liquid phase separation in model membranes.

Block copolymers (BCPs) are an exciting class of soft materials that enable controlled phase separation and nanoscale self - assembly of designer macromolecules for applications ranging from thermoplastic elastomers and membranes to nanocapsules for drug delivery.

«Problems with phase separation have been linked to diseases such as dementia and certain neurodegenerative disorders,» said Karpen.

Gladfelter has previously demonstrated in fungus that it's critical that the cell undergo a liquid - liquid phase separation in order for two different biological process to occur.

This behavior stems from an unusual feature of certain complex oxides called phase separation, in which tiny regions in the material exhibit vastly different electronic and magnetic properties.

They were interested in a phase separation phenomenon that has been known for around 50 years, but could neither be precisely observed nor understood until now: The microstructure of nickel - based alloys changes under controlled ageing or heat treatment and in the classical two - phase microstructure new phases are initially formed.

Wanderka and Vogel were able to precisely observe the phase separation process on the atomic scale for the first time.

Phase separation is observed for intermediate stoichiometries.

Dr. Mike Sleutel (VIB - VUB): «It will be exciting to see this new technique being applied in the future to follow protein self - assembly processes that are implicated in a range of pathological disorders, such as liquid - liquid phase separation in eye cataract formation or the formation of amyloid fibers associated with a range of neurological disorders.»