The influence of poor solvent quality on fluid demixing of a model mixture of colloids and nonadsorbing polymers is investigated using density functional theory. The colloidal particles are modeled as hard spheres and the polymer coils as effective interpenetrating spheres that have hard interactions with the colloids. The solvent is modeled as a two-component mixture of a primary solvent, rega...

      The first aim of the present investigation was to prepare solid dispersions to improve the dissolution properties of oxcarbazepine and quetiapine using PEG 6000 as a carrier with the help of two methods of preparations viz. spray drying and modified solvent method, and to compare the two methods. The second objective was to apply the modified solvent method for preparation of sustained re...

2. Soxhlation: Soxhlet extraction is only required where the desired compound has a limited solubility in the solvent, and the impurity is insoluble in that solvent. If the desired compound has a high solubility in a solvent then a simple filtration can be used to separate the compound from the insoluble substance [1]. In a conventional soxhlet system plant material is placed in thimble-holder,...

A novel Stochastic Event-Driven Molecular Dynamics (SEDMD) algorithm is developed for the simulation of polymer chains suspended in a solvent. SEDMD combines event-driven molecular dynamics (EDMD) with the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method. The polymers are represented as chains of hard-spheres tethered by square wells and interact with the solvent particles with hard-core potentials....

A simple synthetic strategy for synthesis of new series of hetarylazo-heterocycles is described. The effects of solvent on their electronic absorption spectra were analyzed using Kamlet-Taft equation. The results of fitting coefficients indicated that the solvatochromism of the studied compounds is mainly due to the solvent polarity rather than the solvent basicity and acidity.

The first solvent-free crystal structure of PCBM, an organic semiconductor widely used in solvent-free nanocrystalline films in plastic solar cells, is reported and its relevance to structure-property relationships discussed. The PCBM structure, obtained from o-dichlorobenzene solvates by solvent abstraction, was solved using powder diffraction, demonstrating this possibility for functionalized...

The effect of solvents on photophysical properties namely absorption transition energy, fluorescence transition energy and stoke’s shift of a ketocyanine dye 2,5-di[(E)-1-(4 aminophenyl) methylidine]-1cyclopentanone (2,5-APMC) is analyzed using Lippert-Mataga bulk polarity function, Reichardt’s microscopic solvent polarity parameter and Kamlet’s multiple linear regression approach. The spectral...

Solvent accessibility is an important structural feature for a protein. We propose a new method for solvent accessibility prediction that uses known structure and sequence information more efficiently. We first estimate the relative solvent accessibility of the query protein using fuzzy mean operator from the solvent accessibilities of known structure fragments that have similar sequences to th...