Massimo G. Noro

TL;DR: In this article, an extension of the law of corresponding states that can be applied to colloidal suspensions that have widely different ranges of attractive interactions is proposed. And the reduced second virial coefficient is a convenient parameter to quantify the effective range of attraction, which can be used to estimate the relative location of the liquid and solid-fluid coexistence curves.

TL;DR: The results are consistent with the experimental evidence that high concentrations of DMSO fluidize the stratum corneum lipids and enhance permeability, and the liquid-crystalline phase of ceramides is expected to be markedly more permeable to solutes than the gel phase.

TL;DR: Close to the skin composition ratio, the lateral pressure fluctuations are greatly suppressed, the ceramide tails from the two leaflets interdigitate significantly, the depression in local density at the interleaflet region is lowered, and the bilayers have lowered elastic moduli, indicating that the observed composition ratio in the stratum corneum lipid layer is responsible for both the good barrier properties and the stability of the lipid structure against mechanical stresses.

TL;DR: In this article, a numerical calculation of the melting point of NaCl was performed by determining the point where the chemical potentials of the solid and liquid phases intersect using free energy calculations.

TL;DR: It is found that additional long-range attractions on the phase behavior of spheres with short-ranged attraction can shift the (metastable) fluid-fluid critical point out of the gel region, suggesting that long-ranged attractive forces may play an important role in the crystallization of globular proteins.