Cultivation of Adherent Cells on Liquid-Liquid Interface.

Co-cultivation of rat pneumocytes and bovine endothelial cells on a liquid-air interface.

The blood-air barrier is a most important functional element of the lung but little information is available about the cells constituting this barrier in vivo. The aim of the present study was to create an in vitro model of the blood-air barrier that would allow investigation of cellular interactions and alveolar metabolism, and would be suitable for in vitro drug screening. Rat pneumocytes and...

Ionic Disruption of the Liquid-Liquid Interface

The interface formed between an aqueous salt solution and a hydrophobic liquid has been investigated using molecular dynamics simulations. The salt solutions of NaCl, NaNO3, and Na2SO4 have been studied to determine their presence and distribution in the interfacial region and their effect on interfacial water molecules. Density and orientation profiles reveal the formation of ionic double laye...

Interface morphologies in liquid/liquid dewetting

The dynamics and morphology of a liquid polystyrene (PS) film on the scale of a hundred nanometer dewetting from a liquid polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) film is investigated experimentally and theoretically. The polymers considered here are both below their entanglement lengths and have negligible elastic properties. A theoretical model based on viscous Newtonian flow for both polymers is set up...

Ionic Liquid / Electrode Interface

Ionic liquids exhibit a remarkably diverse interfacial chemistry. Recent theoretical and experimental results show that conventional double layers do not form on metal electrodes in ionic liquid systems, rather a multilayer morphology is present. The number of layers and the strength of adsorption are strongly dependent on ionic liquid chemical species, solutes and applied electrode potential. ...

Liquid-solid interface inertia