Coacervation is a phenomenon in which a colloidal dispersion separates into two immiscible liquid phases: a liquid rich in colloidal phase in equilibrium with another diluted liquid phase. Surfactant coacervation here refers to coacervation whose main components are surfactants with low molecular weights. Over the past two decades, surfactants have been greatly developed and studies on coacerva...

Turbidity, dynamic light scattering, and electrophoretic mobility were used to study the effects of added salt on coacervation in the system composed of the strong cationic polymer poly(diallyldimethylammonium chloride) (PDADMAC) and oppositely charged mixed micelles of Triton X-100 (TX100) and sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS). The phase behavior in the range of ionic strengths from 0.05 to 0.60 M ...

Critical conditions for coacervation of poly(dimethyldiallylammonium chloride) (PDADMAC) with bovine serum albumin were determined as a function of ionic strength, pH, and protein/polyelectrolyte stoichiometry. The resultant phase boundaries, clearly defined with this narrow molecular weight distribution PDADMAC sample, showed nonmonotonic ionic strength dependence, with the pH-induced onset of...

Marine mussels attach to substrates using adhesive proteins. It has been suggested that complex coacervation (liquid-liquid phase separation via concentration) might be involved in the highly condensed and non-water dispersed adhesion process of mussel adhesive proteins (MAPs). However, as purified natural MAPs are difficult to obtain, it has not been possible to experimentally validate the coa...

Lactoferrin (LF) and β-lactoglobulin (BLG), strongly basic and weakly acidic bovine milk proteins, form optically clear coacervates under highly limited conditions of pH, ionic strength I, total protein concentration C(P), and BLG:LF stoichiometry. At 1:1 weight ratio, the coacervate composition has the same stoichiometry as its supernatant, which along with DLS measurements is consistent with ...

Coacervation is known to be true microencapsulation because the core material is completely surrounded by a continuous coating of wall material. Coacervation involves interaction between one or many hydrocolloids, particularly between oppositely charged protein and polysaccharide in the same reaction media [1]. The interaction relies on the charges carried by the biopolymers, pH of the coacerva...

The temperature-induced liquid-liquid phase transition (complex coacervation) of a polycation-anionic/nonionic mixed micelle system was examined over a range of macroion concentrations and polycation molecular weights (MW) using turbidimetry and dynamic light scattering (DLS). DLS revealed a progressive increase in complex/aggregate size with temperature up to the phase transition at T(φ), foll...

The system comprised of poly(dimethyldially1ammonium chloride) (PDMDAAC) and oppositely charged mixed micelles of Triton X-100 (TXlOO) and sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS) displays several states, including coacervate and various soluble complexes. The phase boundary for the equilibrium between soluble complexes and coacervate (“associative phase separation” according to Piculell and Lindman) for 0....