A dataset provided by the European Space Agency

Name DCMIX4 - Diffusion Coefficients Measurement in ternary mIXtures-4
Operational Nomenclature DCMIX-4
URL https://hreda.esac.esa.int/hreda/#/pages/investigation;investigationAcronym=DCMIX4_ISS
DOI https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-eu8vcjs
Platform ISS
HRE-E3P Category Physical Sciences
Mission Inc57, Inc58
Keywords ESA Human and Robotic Exploration data, HREDA dataset, Human and Robotic Exploration Data Archive, ESA exploration mission data, human spaceflight experiment data, robotic exploration telemetry dataset, International Space Station experiment data, ISS Columbus module data, microgravity research dataset, life sciences space experiment data, space physiology measurements dataset, radiation exposure measurements spaceflight, life support systems performance data, closed-loop environmental control data, ECLSS telemetry dataset, astronaut biomedical monitoring data, space habitat systems engineering data, robotic surface operations dataset, planetary exploration robotics data, lunar exploration technology demonstration data, Mars analog experiment dataset, in-situ resource utilization ISRU experiment data, space systems engineering telemetry, mission operations engineering data, payload performance dataset, calibrated experiment data products, time-series telemetry data, spaceflight sensor measurements, ESA exploration science archive data, long-duration spaceflight research dataset
Team Coordinator Name Tatyana Lyubimova, Mounir Bou-Ali, Stefan van Vaerenbergh, Valentina Shevtsova, Ilya Ryzhkov, Henri Bataller
Version 1.0
Team Members DCMIX4_ISS
Publication Valentina Shevtsova, YA Gaponenko, V Sechenyh, DE Melnikov, Tatyana Lyubimova, Aliaksandr Mialdun, 2015, Dynamics of a binary mixture subjected to a temperature gradient and oscillatory forcing, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 767, 290-322, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2015.50

Aliaksandr Mialdun, MM Bou-Ali, M Braibanti, Fabrizio Croccolo, A Errarte, JM Ezquerro, JJ Fernández, L García-Fernández, Quentin Galand, YA Gaponenko, F Gavaldà, W Köhler, Tatyana Lyubimova, José M. Ortiz de Zárate, J Rodríguez, Xavier Ruiz, IIya Ryzhkov, M Schraml, Valentina Shevtsova, Stefan van Vaerenbergh, V Yasnou, Henri Bataller, 2020, Data quality assessment of Diffusion Coefficient Measurements in ternary mIXtures 4 (DCMIX4) experiment, Acta Astronautica, in press - journal pre-proof, , DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2020.06.020

Alberto Vailati, Henri Bataller, Mounir Bou-Ali, Marina Carpineti, Roberto Cerbino, Fabrizio Croccolo, Stefan Egelhaaf, Fabio Giavazzi, C Giraudet, Gabriela Guevara-Carrion, Dezsö Horváth, Werner Köhler, Aliaksandr Mialdun, Jeff Porter, Karin Schwarzenberger, Valentina Shevtsova, Anne De Wit, 2023, Diffusion in liquid mixtures, npj Microgravity, 9, 1, , DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41526-022-00246-z

A Vailati, R Cerbino, Stefano Mazzoni, Christopher J. Takacs, David S. Cannell, Marzio Giglio, 2011, Fractal fronts of diffusion in microgravity, Nature Communications, 2, article no. 290, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1290

Valentina Shevtsova, C Santos, V Sechenyh, JC Legros, Aliaksandr Mialdun, 2014, Diffusion and Soret in Ternary Mixtures. Preparation of the DCMIX2 Experiment on the ISS, Microgravity Science and Technology, 25, 5, 275-283, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12217-013-9349-6

M Matsuura, S Iwaasa, Y Nagasaka, 2015, Mass Diffusion Coefficient and Soret Coefficient of o‑Dichlorobenzene Solutions of PCBM and Fullerene by the Soret Forced Rayleigh Scattering Method, Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data, 60, 12, 3621-3630, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jced.5b00609

R Cerbino, Y Sun, A Donev, A Vailati, 2015, Dynamic scaling for the growth of nonequilibrium fluctuations during thermophoretic diffusion in microgravity, Scientific Reports, 5, 14486, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/srep14486

T Groβmann, J Winkelmann, 2009, Ternary Diffusion Coefficients of Cyclohexane + Toluene + Methanol by Taylor Dispersion Measurements at 298.15 K. Part 2. Low Toluene Area Near the Binodal Curve, Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data, 54, 2, 485-490, DOI: 10.1021/je800477y

MM Bou-Ali, A Ahadi, D Alonso de Mezquia, Quentin Galand, M Gebhardt, O Khlybov, W Köhler, M Larrañaga, JC Legros, Tatyana Lyubimova, Aliaksandr Mialdun, Ilya Ryzhkov, MZ Saghir, Valentina Shevtsova, Stefan van Vaerenbergh, 2015, Benchmark values for the Soret, thermodiffusion and molecular dodecane with 0.8-0.1-0.1 mass fraction diffusion coefficients of the ternary mixture tetralin+isobutylbenzene+n dodecane with 0.8-0.1-0.1 mass fraction, The European Physical Journal E: Soft Matter and Biological Physics, 38, 4, 30, DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2015-15030-7

Aliaksandr Mialdun, Valentina Shevtsova, 2011, Measurement of the Soret and diffusion coefficients for benchmark binary mixtures by means of digital interferometry, Journal of Chemical Physics, 134, 4, 044524, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3546036

Valentina Shevtsova, V Sechenyh, Alexander A. Nepomnyashchy, JC Legros, 2011, Analysis of the application of optical two-wavelength techniques to measurement of the Soret coefficients in ternary mixtures, Philosophical Magazine, Part A: Materials Science, 91, 26, 3498-3518, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14786435.2011.586376

A Martin, MM Bou-Ali, 2011, Determination of thermal diffusion coefficient of nanofluid: fullerene-toluene, Comptes Rendus Mécanique, 339, 5, 329-334, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crme.2011.03.010

Fabrizio Croccolo, C Giraudet, Henri Bataller, R Cerbino, A Vailati, 2016, Shadowgraph Analysis of Non-equilibrium Fluctuations for Measuring Transport Properties in Microgravity in the GRADFLEX Experiment, Microgravity Science and Technology, 28, 4, 467-475, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12217-016-9501-1

Aliaksandr Mialdun, Henri Bataller, MM Bou-Ali, M Braibanti, Fabrizio Croccolo, A Errarte, JM Ezquerro, JJ Fernández, YA Gaponenko, L García-Fernández, J Rodríguez, Valentina Shevtsova, 2019, Preliminary analysis of Diffusion Coefficient Measurements in ternary mIXtures 4 (DCMIX4) experiment on board the International Space Station, The European Physical Journal E, 42, 87, , https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2019-11851-6

S Kozlova, Aliaksandr Mialdun, Ilya Ryzhkov, T Janzen, Jadran Vrabec, Valentina Shevtsova, 2019, Do ternary liquid mixtures exhibit negative main Fick diffusion coefficients?, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 21, 4, 2140-2152, DOI: 10.1039/C8CP06795C

T Triller, D Sommermann, M Schram, IF Sommer, E Lapeira, MM Bou-Ali, W Köhler, 2019, The Soret effect in ternary mixtures of water+ethanol+triethylene glycol of equal mass fractions: Ground and microgravity experiments, The European Physical Journal E: Soft Matter, 42, 3, 27, DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2019-11789-7

D Sommermann, T Triller, W Köhler, 2019, A robust data evaluation method for the DCMIX microgravity experiments, Microgravity Science and Technology, 31, 465-474, DOI: 10.1007/s12217-019-09722-w
Temporal Coverage 2018-10-05T00:00:00Z/2019-03-15T00:00:00Z
Mission Description The HRE Data Archive (HREDA) collects information and data of investigations funded or co-funded by ESA’s Directorate for Human and Robotic Exploration (HRE) and performed on microgravity and ground-based facilities since 1972.
Creator Contact https://hreda.esac.esa.int/hreda/#/pages/help/contact
Date Published 2025-11-07T10:33:14Z
Last Update 2026-03-04
Publisher And Registrant European Space Agency
Credit Guidelines European Space Agency, Tatyana Lyubimova et al., 2025, 'DCMIX-4', 1.0, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-eu8vcjs