Free energy reduction by molecular interface crossing: Novel mechanism for the transport of material across the interface of nanoscale droplets induced by competing intermolecular forces for application in perfluorocarbon blood substitutes

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 335-339

  Sommer, Andrei P ^a   Röhlke, Wolfgang ^a   Franke, Ralf P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; FLUOROCARBON; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; EXPIRED AIR; HEMATOLOGY; LIVER; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR MODEL; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PARTICLE SIZE; PLASMA; SPLEEN; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

BLOOD SUBSTITUTES; FLUOROCARBONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SURFACE TENSION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0032818291     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001140050629     Document Type: Article

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