Hydrodynamic and physicochemical phenomena in liquid droplets under the action of nanosecond spark discharges: A review.

This review presents experimental studies of phenomena occurring in droplets of various liquids under the effect of nanosecond spark discharges. Inorganic liquids and liquids of biological origin are considered here. Attention is payed to hydrodynamic and physico-chemical phenomena in droplets, including a movement of sessile droplets on a substrate under the effect of the discharges, internal flows in droplets (excited by the discharges), plasma capillary phenomena, features of the droplets drying under the effect of the discharges, traces (patterns) left by the droplets, exposed to the discharges, on the substrates etc.

Synergetics of the Membrane Self-Assembly: A Micelle-to-Vesicle Transition.

A model approach is developed to study intermediate steps and transientstructures in a course of the membrane self-assembly. The approach isbased on investigation of mixed lipid/protein-detergent systems capable ofthe temperature induced transformation from a solubilized micellar stateto closed membrane vesicles. We performed a theoretical analysis ofself-assembling molecular structures formed in binary mixtures ofdimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) and sodium cholate (NaC).