We estimate the transport coefficients, viz., shear and bulk viscosities as well as thermal and electrical conductivities, of hot pionic matter using relativistic Boltzmann equation in relaxation time approximation. We use K-matrix parametrization of pion-pion cross sections to estimate the transport coefficients which incorporate multiple heavy resonances while simultaneously preserving the unitarity of S-matrix. We compare transport coefficients estimated using K-matrix parametrization with existing literature on pionic transport coefficients. We find that the K-matrix scheme estimations are in reasonable agreement with previous results.

We study the equation of state (EoS) of hot and dense hadron gas by incorporating the excluded volume corrections into the ideal hadron resonance gas (HRG) model. The total hadron mass spectrum of the model is the sum of discrete mass spectrum consisting all the experimentally known hadrons and the exponentially rising continuous Hagedorn states. We confront the EoS of the model with lattice quantum chromodynamics (LQCD) results at finite baryon chemical potential. We find that this modified HRG model reproduce the LQCD results up to T = 160 MeV at zero as well as finite baryon chemical potential. We further estimate the shear viscosity within ambit of this model in the context of heavy-ion collision experiments.

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To overcome the difficulties associated with the conventional extraction process like poor selective extrac- tion of biomolecule and scale up of the process, the reverse micellar system consist of AOT/n-heptanol was considered to extract Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA) as a model biomolecule. The maximum forward extraction of BSA from aqueous phase to micelle phase was observed at AOT concentration 160 mM, aque- ous phase pH value of 4, NaCl concentration 0.8 M and 95% back extraction of BSA from micelle phase to stripping phase was obtained at 1 M NaCl concentration with the pH of 7.5. HPLC analysis confirmed the stability of BSA during extraction. The size and water content of the reverse micelle was also reported. The obtained results emphasize the application of the AOT/n-heptanol reverse micellar system for the extraction of BSA and may be utilized for the selective extraction of similar hydrophilic proteins from the complex sources.