Measurement of Water Saturation in Soybean Oil

In a previous study, it was observed that survivability was low when attempting to cryopreserve sperm cells in a nanoliter-sized droplet protected under soybean oil, in stark contrast to the high survival rates in milliliter-sized droplets. In this study, infrared spectroscopy was used to provide an...

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Published in:ACS omega 2023-06, Vol.8 (22), p.19385-19390
Main Authors: Galmidi, Bat-Sheva, Iron, Mark A., Zurgil, Naomi, Deutsch, Mordechai
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Language:English
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Summary:In a previous study, it was observed that survivability was low when attempting to cryopreserve sperm cells in a nanoliter-sized droplet protected under soybean oil, in stark contrast to the high survival rates in milliliter-sized droplets. In this study, infrared spectroscopy was used to provide an estimate of the saturation concentration of water in soybean oil. By following the time evolution of the infrared absorption spectrum of water–oil mixtures, the saturation of water in soybean oil was found to reach equilibrium after 1 h. From the absorption spectra of neat water and neat soybean oil and the application of the Beer–Lambert law to an estimation of the absorption of a mixture from its individual components, it was estimated that the saturation concentration of water is 0.010 M. This estimate was supported by molecular modeling using the latest semiempirical methods (in particular, GFN2-xTB). While for most applications the very low solubility has little impact, the implications in those exceptions were discussed.
ISSN:2470-1343
2470-1343
DOI:10.1021/acsomega.3c00348