The effects of surfactant and oil chemical structures on self-assembly in apolar media

A Rahman, J Eastoe - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
self-assembly in aqueous systems have been much studied. On the other hand, for oil–water
interfaces the … of surfactant films at oil–water interfaces. For this purpose, reversed micelles (…

Molecular order affects interfacial water structure and temperature-dependent hydrophobic interactions between nonpolar self-assembled monolayers

BC Dallin, H Yeon, AR Ostwalt, NL Abbott… - Langmuir, 2019 - ACS Publications
… SAM–water interface to … interface and to relate ligand order, interfacial water structure, and
interfacial hydrophobicity. We hypothesize that water molecules at a disordered SAM interface

Can polarity-inverted surfactants self-assemble in nonpolar solvents?

M Carrer, T Škrbić, SL Bore, G Milano… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We investigate the self-assembly process of a surfactant with inverted polarity in water and
cyclohexane using both all-atom and coarse-grained hybrid particle-field molecular dynamics …

Self-assembly at water nanodroplet interfaces quantified with nonlinear light scattering

N Smolentsev, S Roke - Langmuir, 2020 - ACS Publications
… potential of nanoscale water droplets in an apolar liquid using angle-resolved polarimetric
second-… Above the critical micelle concentration, the interface mediates micelle self-assembly. …

Self-assembly of surfactants: An overview on general aspects of amphiphiles

S Ghosh, A Ray, N Pramanik - Biophysical Chemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
… a long hydrocarbon tail and a polar head group. The head … hydrocarbon chains attached to
a polar head and are called … is only possible at the interface between two media. Therefore, …

Coupled dynamics of colloidal nanoparticle spreading and self-assembly at a fluid–fluid interface

DM Balazs, TA Dunbar, DM Smilgies, T Hanrath - Langmuir, 2020 - ACS Publications
… phenomena governing the self-assembly of colloidal nanoparticles at the interface of two …
assembly, and recession of the vapor–liquid interface on the morphology of the self-assembled

Solvent and surface/interface effect on the hierarchical assemblies of chiral aggregation-induced emitting molecules

BS Li, X Huang, H Li, W Xia, S Xue, Q Xia, BZ Tang - Langmuir, 2019 - ACS Publications
… of the molecules on air/water interface because of their different molecular shapes and
rigidness, as illustrated in the scheme in Figure 4B. TPE-Val had a polar amino acid end and a …

Selfassembly of photoresponsive molecular amphiphiles in aqueous media

S Chen, R Costil, FKC Leung… - Angewandte Chemie, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
self-assembly into well-defined structures at interfaces and in solution based on non-covalent
interactions. The hydrophilic part of an amphiphile interacts with a polarself-assembled

Solvophobicity and amphiphilic self-assembly in neoteric and nanostructured solvents

GG Warr, R Atkin - Current opinion in colloid & interface science, 2020 - Elsevier
… This leads to packing constraints that affect the local curvature of the polar/nonpolar interface
… domains, and a well-defined internal polar/apolar interface, do not easily translate to ILs. …

SelfAssembly of Nanoparticles in 2D and 3D: Recent Advances and Future Trends

SK Ghosh, A Böker - Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… nanoscale dimension to self-assemble at the liquid–liquid interface into ordered superstructures
… of equivalent polar and apolar surface regions; the polar and apolar regions are solely …