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Vollmer, D.; Vollmer, J.; Strey, R.; Schmidt, H.; Wolf, G.
doi: 10.1007/BF02719007pmid: N/A
Differential scanning microcalorimetric measurements on phase transitions in water-oil-surfactant mixtures are presented, demonstrating that this method is highly sensitive towards small heat changes connected with structural transitions in the samples. The values for the latent heat of phase transitions are determined and the results are compared with predictions from mean field theory, emphasizing the role calorimetric experiments can play to identify the most important contributions to the free energy describing the mixtures. Doing this, the present status of the understanding of temperature dependent phase transitions in microemulsions is reviewed.
Ruiz, M.; Reyes, I.; Parera, A.; Gallardo, V.
doi: 10.1007/BF02719008pmid: N/A
Differential scanning calorimetry was used to study the stability of omeprazole in two forms: granules and powder. The drug was subjected to light, elevated temperature (40 and 60°C) and different pH values. The greatest alterations in stability were caused by pH, followed by light.
Samuni, A.; Crommelin, D.; Zuidam, N.; Barenholz, Y.
doi: 10.1007/BF02719009pmid: N/A
This study was aimed to investigate the physicochemical changes induced in 200 nm extruded oligolamellar DPPC:DPPG (10:1) liposomes by freezing, followed by γ-irradiation, in the absence and presence of 5 mM stable cyclic nitroxide radicals, 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl (Tempo) and 4-hydroxy-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl (Tempol). The characterization is based on the use of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and was aimed to differentiate the contribution of freezing and γ-irradiation in the presence and absence of nitroxides. Liposomal preparations of DPPC/DPPG which have sub-, pre- and main-phase transitions in the temperature range (0°C< T m <50°C) were used. Our results show that: (1) freezing modified and induced fusion to MLV as well as fission to SUV, (2) freezing did not fully prevent the radiation-induced changes in the thermotropic characteristics of the liposomes, and (3) Tempo and Tempol did not prevent the changes in thermotropic behavior caused as a result of freezing of the liposomal dispersion. These results demonstrate that DSC is a powerful and sensitive tool in both physical and chemical studies of lipid assemblies.
Schulz, P.; Rodríguez, J.; Soltero-Martínez, F.; Puig, J.; Proverbio, Z.
doi: 10.1007/BF02719010pmid: N/A
The phase behaviour of the twin-tailed surfactant dioctadecyldimethylammonium bromide with water was studied by DSC, FT-IR, X-ray and polarizing microscope. The phase diagram of DODAB-water system is very similar to that of DODAC-water. The dihydrate is in equilibrium with isotropic solution below 55°C. Above this temperature there is a lamellar liquid crystalline region, in equilibrium with isotropic liquid and solid crystals of DODAB·2H 2 O, up to 69°C. From 69 to 86°C, the lamellar mesophase is in equilibrium with ‘waxy’ anhydrous DODAB. From 86 to 116°C and very high DODAB content, there is a very narrow region of existence of inverse hexagonal mesophase, in equilibrium via a narrow biphase region with lamellar mesophase. At T > 116°C an isotropic liquid appears. There seems to exist two different lamellar mesophases, one of them between 10 and 40 wt.% DODAB and the other between 60 and about 97 wt.% DODAB, with a biphase zone between them.
Garti, N.; Aserin, A.; Tiunova, I.; Ezrahi, S.
doi: 10.1007/BF02719011pmid: N/A
Sub-zero temperature DSC measurements were conducted to evaluate the behavior of water in non-ionic microemulsions. Two surfactant systems were studied. The first, based on ethoxylated fatty alcohol, octaethylene glycol mono n -dodecylether (hereafter referred to as C 12 (EO) 8 ) and also containing water, pentanol and dodecane at a fixed weight ratio of 1:1. The second system, based on oligomeric ethoxylated siloxanes, water and dodecanol as oil phase. In both systems it was found that in up to 30 wt.% of the total water content, all water molecules solubilize in the amphiphilic phase and are bound to the ethylene oxide (hereafter referred to as EO) head-groups. No free water exists in the surfactant aggregates’ core. Up to three molecules of water are bound to each EO group. In the first system, the behavior changes significantly upon adding more water. The added pentanol allows further swelling and the water penetrates into the amphiphile structures and forms a reservoir of free water. Structures are deformed and grow from elongated channels (up to 15–20 wt.% water), via illdefined (one-dimensional growth) local lamellar structures (up to ca. 60 wt.% water) to spherical normal, O/W micelles (at ≥85 wt.% water). In contrast, the oligomeric systems, due to geometrical restrictions of the amphiphiles and the nature of their curvature that prevents inversion, cannot further solubilize water in the surfactant aggregates’ core, causing phase separation to occur.
Senatra, Donatella; Pratesi, R.; Pieraccini, L.
doi: 10.1007/BF02719012pmid: N/A
Three component percolative W/O microemulsions were studied by differential scanning calorimetry. Water-AOT-Decane, D 2 O-AOT-Decane, Water-AOT-Isooctane and Water-Ca(AOT) 2 -Decane systems were analyzed. Thus by changing, in the order, the dispersed phase, the dispersing medium, and by modifying the interphase region. The thermal history of the samples was monitored by a suitable thermal program. Following the latter, first order phase transitions associated with the freezing and/or melting of the two massive phases were obtained, as well as the higher order phase transition associated with the percolation process. From the melting spectra an estimate of the amount of water bound to the hydrophilic groups of the AOT as well as of that of oil bound to the hydrophobic surfactant tails was obtained. The latter result shows a difference in the behaviour of the continuous oily phase at the O/W interphase. From the freezing spectra, the percolative character of the microemulsion was evidenced by the exotherms associated with the freezing of the water phase.
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