Phytantriol phase behaviour in choline chloride urea and water mixtures

SJ Bryant, A Elbourne, TL Greaves… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Deep eutectic solvents (DES) are tailorable non-aqueous solvents with promising properties
for a range of applications, from industrial dissolution of plant products to biomedicine. They …

Complex three-dimensional self-assembly in proxies for atmospheric aerosols

C Pfrang, K Rastogi, ER Cabrera-Martinez… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Aerosols are significant to the Earth's climate, with nearly all atmospheric aerosols
containing organic compounds that often contain both hydrophilic and hydrophobic parts …

Control of nanomaterial self-assembly in ultrasonically levitated droplets

AM Seddon, SJ Richardson, K Rastogi… - The journal of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate that acoustic trapping can be used to levitate and manipulate droplets of
soft matter, in particular, lyotropic mesophases formed from self-assembly of different …

Cooperative Self-Assembly of Lipid–Polymer Hybrids Stabilizing Highly Ordered Bicontinuous Cubic Phases in Air

M Kang, YK Go, M Porras-Gomez, T Koulaxizis… - …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The co-assembly of lipids and block copolymers is a new strategy to enable materials with
nanostructure complexity as well as responsive transport and mechanical behavior. In water …

Encapsulation of aspartic protease in nonlamellar lipid liquid crystalline phases

M Valldeperas, M Talaikis, SK Dhayal, M Velička… - Biophysical …, 2019 - cell.com
Encapsulation of proteins within lipid inverse bicontinuous cubic phases (Q 2) has been
widely studied for many applications, such as protein crystallization or drug delivery of …

Acoustic levitation with polarising optical microscopy (AL-POM): water uptake in a nanostructured atmospheric aerosol proxy

A Milsom, AM Squires, C Brasnett… - Environmental …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Laboratory studies on levitated particles of atmospheric aerosol proxies have provided
significant contributions to our understanding of aerosol processes. We present an …

Soft nanostructured films for directing the assembly of functional materials

D Steer, M Kang, C Leal - Nanotechnology, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Lipids are a class of biological small molecules with hydrophilic and hydrophobic
constituents forming the structural membranes in cells. Over the past century an extensive …

Aligned platinum nanowire networks from surface-oriented lipid cubic phase templates

SJ Richardson, MR Burton, PA Staniec… - Nanoscale, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Mesoporous metal structures featuring a bicontinuous cubic morphology have a wide range
of potential applications and novel opto-electronic properties, often orientation-dependent …

A tailor-made design of lipidic bicontinuous cubic matrices using amino acid ionic liquids as self-assembly media

S Fujiwara, H Ohno, T Ichikawa - Molecular Systems Design & …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Lipidic bicontinuous cubic (QII) matrices are a class of liquid-crystalline matrices with three-
dimensional (3D) continuity and periodicity. Owing to their unique nanostructures, they have …

The impact of nanostructure on hygroscopicity and reactivity of fatty acid atmospheric aerosol proxies

A Milsom, AM Squires, B Laurence, B Wōden… - …, 2024 - egusphere.copernicus.org
Atmospheric aerosol hygroscopicity and reactivity play key roles in determining the aerosol's
fate and are strongly affected by its composition and physical properties. Fatty acids are …