The aim of this study was to develop a microemulsion system as a medium for laccase-catalyzed reactions. Phase behavior studies were conducted by constructing partial pseudo-ternary phase diagrams for systems comprising of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), various organic solvents as the oil phase (i.e., hexane, cyclohexane, heptane, octane, isooctane, toluene, isopropyl myristate), two co...

A thermodynamic dataset was developed for the quinary Ti-Si-B-C-N system. The phase modeling includes all carbides, nitrides, carbonitrides, borides and silicdes which can be used as high temperature structural materials. The CALPHAD approach is used to calculate high-temperature phase reactions in the ternary and quaternary subsystems. The phase stabilities can be derived. All types of phase d...

The phase properties of lipids have far-reaching consequences in membrane biology. Their influence ranges from domain formation in intact biomembranes to membrane protein reconstitution and crystallization. To exploit phase behavior in the spirit of rational design, it is imperative that the rules relating lipid molecular structure and liquid crystal or mesophase behavior be established. Phase ...

This paper provides an evaluation of the effectiveness of using the high throughput combinatorial approach for preparing phase diagrams of thin film and bulk materials. Our evaluation is based primarily on examples of combinatorial phase diagrams that have been reported in the literature as well as based on our own laboratory experiments. Various factors that affect the construction of these ph...

This paper highlights the importance of software maintenance, specifically the UML (Unified Modeling Language) diagrams, created and changed, especially during the tasks of analysis and design of software. The main idea of this paper is to formalize the software maintenance phase in order to motivate the maintenance documentation of these diagrams taking into account a knowledge base which repr...