Interaction between Pluronic F127 and Dioctadecyldimethylammonium Bromide (DODAB) Vesicles Studied by Differential Scanning Calorimetry
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A number of fundamental studies on the interactions between lipid bilayers and (ethylene oxide)-b-(propylene oxide)-b-(ethylene oxide) copolymers (PEO-PPO-PEO, Pluronics) have been carried out recently as model systems for the complex behavior of cell membranes with this class of polymers often employed in pharmaceutical formulations. We report here a study by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) of the interactions in water between Pluronic F127 (F127), and the cationic vesicles of di-n-octadecyldimethylammonium bromide (DODAB), as a function of concentration of the two components (DODAB 0.1 and 1.0 mM; F127 0.1 to 5.0 mM) and of the sample preparation protocol. The DSC studies follow the critical micellization temperature (cmt ≈ 27 °C at 1.0 mM) of F127 and the gel-liquid crystal transition (T(m) ≈ 45 °C) of the DODAB bilayer and of F127/DODAB mixtures. Upon heating past T(m), vesicle/polymer mixtures undergo an irreversible conversion into mixed DODAB/F127 micelles and/or F127-bearing vesicles, depending on the relative amount of each component, together with, in some cases, residual intact F127 micelles or DODAB vesicles. Sample preparation protocol is shown to have little impact on the composition of mixed systems once they are heated above T(m).
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".