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

Figure 1

Schematic representation of a pASC experiment for a transition with a small latent heat and with anomalous pretransitional enthalpy and heat capacity changes. Starting from the constant applied power and the measured temperature response of the sample , the enthalpy and the heat capacity can be calculated independently. is the starting temperature of the run at the time . and are the beginning and the end of a first-order transition at .