Non-equilibrium behavior of lysozyme solutions: beads, clusters and gels
Soft Condensed Matter
2007-05-23 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
Observation of salt-induced aggregation of lysozyme at pH = 4.5, 22C by optical microscopy revealed four regimes: bicontinuous texture, `beads', large aggregates, and transient gelation. The interaction of a metastable liquid-liquid binodal and an ergodic to non-ergodic transition boundary inside the equilibrium crystallization region can explain our findings. Lysozyme data at -2C, as well as many literature results, are consistent with the relative movement of these boundaries.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0309616,
title = {Non-equilibrium behavior of lysozyme solutions: beads, clusters and gels},
author = {H. Sedgwick and K. Kroy and A. Salonen and M. B. Robertson and S. U. Egelhaaf and W. C. K. Poon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0309616},
year = {2007}
}
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4 pages, 4 figures