Future nanoscale soft matter design will be guided to a large extent by the teachings of
amphiphile (lipid or surfactant) self-assembly. Ordered nanostructured lyotropic liquid …

Lyotropic liquid crystals (LLCs) formed by the self-assembly of amphiphilic molecules in a
solvent (usually water) have attracted increasingly greater attention in the last few decades …

We present a food-grade lyotropic liquid crystal system, capable of responding to pH
variations with a reversible switch in both the structure and physical properties. The system …

We introduce soft self-assembly of ultralarge liquid crystalline (LC) graphene oxide (GO)
sheets in a wide range of organic solvents overcoming the practical limitations imposed on …

Lipid-based lyotropic liquid crystals, also referred to as reversed liquid crystalline
mesophases, such as bicontinuous cubic, hexagonal or micellar cubic phases, have …

Lipid crystallization is ubiquitous in nature, observed in biological structures as well as in
commercial products and applications. In a dehydrated state most of the lipids form well …

The structure and functionality of foods are described from the perspective of recent
advances in soft condensed matter physics. An overview is given of the structure and …

Understanding food properties is paramount for enhancing features such as appearance,
taste and texture, for improving health-related factors such as minimizing the onset of …

Self-assembled microstructures of an amphiphilic diarylethene featuring an alkyl chain and
triethylene glycol groups showed a photoinduced reversible morphological change in water …

Water is a ubiquitous liquid with unique physicochemical properties, whose nature has
shaped our planet and life as we know it. Water in restricted geometries has different …