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ArticleAnalytical chemistry2024

Versatile Capillary Cells for Handling Concentrated Samples in Analytical Ultracentrifugation.

Quy Ong, Xu Xufeng, Francesco Stellacci

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Article in Analytical chemistry, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Quy OngLaboratory Of Supramolecular Nanomaterials And Interfaces, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Station 12, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID 0009-0002-2953-3559
Xu XufengLaboratory Of Supramolecular Nanomaterials And Interfaces, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Station 12, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Francesco StellacciLaboratory Of Supramolecular Nanomaterials And Interfaces, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Station 12, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-4635-6080
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · CH

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In concentrated macromolecular dispersions, far-from-ideal intermolecular interactions determine the dispersion behaviors including phase transition, crystallization, and liquid-liquid phase separation. Here, we present a novel versatile capillary-cell design for analytical ultracentrifugation-sedimentation equilibrium (AUC-SE), ideal for studying samples at high concentrations. Current setups for such studies are difficult and unreliable to handle, leading to a low experimental success rate. The design presented here is easy to use, robust, and reusable for samples in both aqueous and organic solvents while requiring no special tools or chemical modification of AUC cells. The key and unique feature is the fabrication of liquid reservoirs directly on the bottom window of AUC cells, which can be easily realized by laser ablation or mechanical drilling. The channel length and optical path length are therefore tunable. The success rate for assembling this new cell is close to 100%. We demonstrate the practicality of this cell by studying: (1) the equation of state and second virial coefficients of concentrated gold nanoparticle dispersions in water and bovine serum albumin (BSA) as well as lysozyme solution in aqueous buffers, (2) the gelation phase transition of DNA and BSA solutions, and (3) liquid-liquid phase separation of concentrated BSA/polyethylene glycol (PEG) droplets.

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PMID38301115
PMCPMC10867799
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