The denaturation of the DNA is analyzed using an analytic model. The DNA molecules are described in the Primitive Model of Polyelectrolytes (PMP), where the polyelectrolyte molecules are cylinders with charged sites. We show that the DNA stabilization arises as the result of the competition...

Solutions of flexible polymer chains with harmonic bonds undergoing rectilinear flow in slit pores are investigated via dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) simulations. We found that when DPD with low Schmidt number (Sc∼1) is used, the polymer chains tend to migrate across the streamlines...

We demonstrate with the aid of visual investigations that multiply reentrant liquid–liquid transitions can be obtained in ethyl alcohol (E)–water (W) mixtures, by the addition of ions. Multiplicity of reentrance can be tuned by changing the concentration, size, or the structure forming...

The occurrence of swarms of small bubbles in a variety of industrial systems enhances their performance. However, the effects that size polydispersity may produce on the stability of kinematic waves, the gain factor, mean bubble velocity, kinematic and dynamic wave velocities is, to our...

We present an analytical study of the dynamical process of the approach to steady state for a driven diffusive system represented by the microemulsion phase of a ternary mixture. The external applied field is given by a “plane Couette” shear flow and the problem is studied within the...

Water soluble porphyrins bearing charged groups can be fostered to aggregate by simply screening the repulsive interactions between side-groups with the same charge. We have extensively studied the aggregation of synthetic porphyrins, which on changing the ionic strength give mesoscopic...

On the basis of a microscopic Hamiltonian on a semi-infinite cubic lattice, we derive the excess surface free energy for a confined ternary mixture of oil, water and amphiphile. Using the standard mean-field approximation for a spin-1 model we calculate the surface parameters in terms of the...

We study the propagation of elastic perturbations in magneto-rheological slurries of iron particles dispersed in glycerine. The complexity of these systems is revealed in the fibrillar structure acquired under the application of a magnetic field. Recently, it has been reported the observation of...