Immiscible aqueous phases, formed by dissolving incompatible solutes in water, have been used in green chemical synthesis, molecular extraction and mimicking of cellular cytoplasm. Recently, a microfluidic approach has been introduced to generate all-aqueous emulsions and jets based on these immiscible aqueous phases; due to their biocompatibility, these all-aqueous structures have shown great ...

The structural basis of immiscibility of stearic acid (SA) in two unsaturated lipids at room temperature was examined. A 5% SA mixture in octadec-9-enoic acid (OA) is cloudy; a 5% SA solution in the methyl ester of OA (MeOA) is fully miscible. At 10% SA in MeOA, a clear and immiscible phase formed. The composition of this immiscible phase however was not 10% SA, but 25% SA. Adding additional SA...

Several processes involve two immiscible liquid phases with dispersed drops surrounded by a continuous phase. The drops coalesce for joining their mother phase. This phenomenon occurs in many industrial mixing, separation, as well as in environmental processes. This paper is focused on the problem of the coalescence of a single drop at the planar interface of two immiscible liquids. An original...

New sulfonic acid functionalized ionic liquids (SAFILs) with bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide anions were synthesized. These ionic liquids are strong Brønsted acids and can solubilize metal oxides. Water-immiscible SAFILs were used as organic phases in solvent extraction studies.

We study the miscibility properties and ground state phases of two-component spin-orbit (SO) coupled Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in a harmonic trap with strong axial confinement. By numerically solving Gross-Pitaevskii equations two-dimensional setting, we analyze SO-coupled BECs for two possible permutations intra- interspecies interactions, namely (i) weak interactions (W-W) (ii) (W-S). ...

Immiscible homopolymers are often blended mechanically to obtain blends with properties significantly superior to those of the component polymers. The creep recovery of such blends was studied in the previous paper, henceforth referred to as I. Surface-active compatibilizers are commonly added to such blends to improve blending of the immiscible phases and to improve the mechanical properties o...