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| Conference Presentation (Invited) | FZJ-2021-02421 |
2021
Abstract: With rising popularity of Microscale Thermophoresis for the characterisation of protein-ligand binding reactions and possible applications in microfluidic devices, there is a growing interest in considering thermodiffusion in the context of life sciences. But although the understanding of thermodiffusion in non-polar mixtures has grown rapidly in recent years, predictions for associated mixtures like aqueous solutions remain challenging. This talk aims to give an overview of the literature on thermodiffusion in aqueous systems, show the difficulties in theoretical description that arise from the non-ideal behaviour of water-mixtures, and highlight the relevance of thermodiffusion in a biological context. We find that the thermodiffusion in aqueous systems is dominated by contributions from heat of transfer, hydrogen bond interactions and charge effects. However, the separation of these effects is often difficult, especially in case of biological systems where a systematic exclusion of contributions may not be feasible. Beside the deficiencies of the theoretical analysis, we will also elucidate the shortcomings of the available experimental methods handling the biological multicomponent systems. References Niether, D.; Wiegand, S., J. Phys. Condens. Matter, 31 (2019) 503003:1-25.
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