ABSTRACT
The importance of the phase behavior in biopolymer mixtures is evident in many technological processes, such as isolation and fractionation of proteins (see, e.g., Refs. [1-6]), and enzymes [7], enzyme immobilization [8-9], encapsulation [10], and drug delivery [9, 11]. Aqueous, two-phase systems are used in modern technological processes where clarification, concentration, and partial purification are integrated in one step [12]. Thermodynamic incompatibility, or, in other words, segregative phase separation determines the structure and physical properties of biopolymers mixtures in quiescent state [13-15]and under flow [16-18] and plays an important role in protein processing in food products [14].
