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1Medical Physicochemical Centre, Donetsk Medical University, 16 Ilych Avenue, 83003 Donetsk, Ukraine.
Abstract:
The equation of state for the monolayer comprised of the molecules of different sizes (water and biopolymers) is modified to describe the fluid (liquid-expanded and gaseous) state of the insoluble molecules monolayer. In contrast to the equation of state derived previously in ref 1, this equation does not involve either the Gibbs' adsorption equation or the differential equation for the chemical potential of the insoluble component, but it is based only on the equations for the chemical potential of the solvent in the bulk and in the surface layer. The results calculated from the proposed equations are in perfect agreement with the experimental Pi-A isotherms of the liquid-expanded state obtained for Langmuir monolayers of various types of amphiphilic compounds. The values of molecular areas of amphiphilic molecules estimated from the fitting of experimental data to the proposed equation are found to be quite similar to those measured in independent grazing incidence X-ray diffraction (GIXD) experiments.
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