Research Article

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

Table 3

Onset and completion temperatures, total heats, and cooperativity units for DMPC + DSPC mixtures obtained from pASC measurements, as well as onset and completion temperatures obtained from QCM-D measurements.

CU
pASC QCM pASC QCM
KKKKJ g−1

0.0 297.5 297.4 297.5 297.4 33 1196
0.1 297.8 297.8 299.8 301.7 43 51
0.2 299.2 298.8 310.7 308.1 47 19
0.3 299.7 299.8 315.5 312.8 47 15
0.4 301.2 301.7 316.4 316.0 47 12
0.5 301.9 302.5 318.5 318.9 47 11
0.6 303.7 303.6 322.3 320.0 43 12
0.7 307.6 307.2 322.6 a43 13
0.8 320.4 317.5 325.2 a43 18
0.9 323.7 315.4 326.8 a48 28
1.0 328.1 a328.1 a53 855

These transitions are outside of the temperature range of QCM-D setup.