Measurement of benzo(a)pyrene metabolism in human monocytes.

Abstract

Entropy–driven equilibrium phase behaviour of hard particle dispersions can be understood from excluded volume arguments only. While monodisperse hard spheres only exhibit a fluid–solid phase transition, anisotropic hard particles such as rods, discs, cuboids or boards exhibit various multi–phase equilibria. Ordering of such anisotropic particles increases the free volume entropy by reducing the excluded volume between them. The addition of depletants gives rise to an entropic