Research Article

Phase Transitions of Binary Lipid Mixtures: A Combined Study by Adiabatic Scanning Calorimetry and Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation Monitoring

Table 1

Transition temperatures, total heats, latent heats, and cooperativity units of the gel to ripple transition and the ripple to liquid-disordered transition of the three pure phospholipids obtained from pASC measurements.

CU
This work LiteratureaThis work Literaturea
KJ g−1J g−1J g−1

Gel to ripple transition—
DMPC 287.5 5.66.1 2.8 483280
DPPC 306.8 5.710 3.0 490290
DSPC 323.7 5.59.5 2.5 400160

Ripple to liquid-disordered transition—
DMPC 297.5 3333 17 1196330
DPPC 314.5 4049 24 1019260
DSPC 328.1 5356 31 855130

Literature values are taken from Mabrey and Sturtevant [27].