This phase underwent a surface pressure-driven structural transformation path way, ultimately forming a canonical bilayer structure similar to that commonly observed among natural lipids.
But there is an even more fundamental transformation under way in Scotland's biggest city.
Taiwan's rise as a communications workhorse is part of a decade-long transformation under way on this island.
The transformation under way at Morgan Stanley is emblematic of the tectonic shifts reshaping the landscape of American finance.
To understand the breadth of the transformation under way, step onto the sprawling trading floor at Credit Suisse in Manhattan.
Ariel, notionally an account of being on a runaway horse, is almost psychedelic in its refusal to alight on an image: transformation gives way to transformation before the whole thing dissolves "into the red/ Eye, the cauldron of morning".
But this opening is evidence of the dramatic transformation under way in the Nine Elms area in Battersea, on the south bank of the Thames.
"There is an under-the-radar transformation under way," driven by consumer choice rather than legislation, said Dan Weiss, a former Sierra Club official now at the liberal Center for American Progress.
I can't help marveling and despairing at the transformation, the way agriculture, here and elsewhere, has created a landscape that is fundamentally inhuman, devoid of people.
Fueled in part by an incident last fall in which "Jew" was painted on the side of her car, Ms. Kahn's commitment is an extreme example of the transformation under way in the attitudes and actions of American Jews.
