Theory of liquid crystalline micelles.

Rheology of Surfactants: Wormlike Micelles and Lamellar Liquid Crystalline Phases

A 3-D hexagonal inverse micellar lyotropic phase.

Lipids that are found in cell membranes form a variety of self-assembled phases in the presence of water. Many of these structures are liquid-crystalline with structural motifs mirrored in cells and organelles and can be exploited in the delivery of drugs and genes. We report the discovery of a lyotropic liquid crystalline phase based on a 3-D hexagonal close-packed arrangement of inverse micel...

Monodisperse Cylindrical Micelles of Controlled Length with a Liquid-Crystalline Perfluorinated Core by 1D "Self-Seeding".

Precise control over the morphology and dimensions of block copolymer (BCP) micelles has attracted interest due to the potential of this approach to generate functional nanostructures. Incorporation of liquid crystalline (LC) block can provide additional ways to vary micellar morphologies, but the formation of uniform micelles with controllable dimensions from LC BCPs has not yet been realized....

Self-assembly of laterally-tethered nanorods.

We report results from a computational study of laterally tethered nanorod "shape amphiphiles". Our simulations predict that the model nanorods self-assemble into stepped-ribbon-like micelles, a centered rectangular stepped-ribbon phase, and two structurally different liquid crystalline bilayer phases: one in which the bilayers have C(mm) symmetry and another in which they have P(2) symmetry. W...

Polystyrene nanorod formation in C 12 E 5 hemimicelle thin film templates

Surfactants self-associate into micelles with various radii of curvature, vesicles, and ordered liquid crystalline phases at the concentration above the critical micelle concentration (CMC) [1]. Recent atomic force microscopy (AFM) studies have shown that analogous structural transitions also occur at the solid/liquid interface. At the solid/liquid interface, surfactants selfassemble into discr...