Understanding the molecular origin of cononsolvency

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The term cononsolvency has been used to describe a situation in which a polymer is less soluble in a mixture of two cosolvents than it is in either one of the pure solvents. If we move into the field of protein stability, then it becomes a desirable feature the fact that the protein become “collapsed” or, better said, folded in a certain solvent mixture. Cononsolvency is thus closely related to the suppression of protein denaturation by stabilizing osmolytes. Cononsolvency behaviour has been found even for small amphiphilic molecules dissolved in methanol/water mixtures. Using a combination of Raman-MCR spectroscopy and MD simulations, it was shown that TBA aggregation is more pronounced in the mixtures than in either of the pure solvents. A thorough structural investigation of TBA solutions is proposed to help the interpretation of thermodynamic and spectroscopic data.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.90844593
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/90844593
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Creator Dr Silvia Imberti
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Discipline Biology; Biomaterials; Chemistry; Engineering Sciences; Life Sciences; Materials Science; Materials Science and Engineering; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-03-16T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-06-29T08:41:16Z