Giant branched nanotubes were successfully constructed using cyclodextrin-based amphiphiles. The 'backbone' of the nanotubes could branch out into two or multiple branches, from which thinner branches grow out.

A series of original amphiphiles prepared by Morita–Baylis–Hillman (MBH) coupling biobased furanic aldehydes with hydrophobic alkenes is explored. Structural variations result from the level polarity on substrate, type activated (ester amide), alkyl chain length, and presence an unsaturation. The physicochemical properties such as Krafft point, critical micellar concentration (CMC), hydrophilic...

By means of two supramolecular systems--peptide amphiphiles engaged in hydrogen-bonded β-sheets, and chromophore amphiphiles driven to assemble by π-orbital overlaps--we show that the minima in the energy landscapes of supramolecular systems are defined by electrostatic repulsion and the ability of the dominant attractive forces to trap molecules in thermodynamically unfavourable configurations...

Surface layers of natural and technical amphiphiles, e.g., octadecanol, stearic acid and related compounds as well as perfluorinated fatty alcohols (PFA), have been investigated on the surface of acoustically levitated drops. In contrast to Langmuir troughs, traditionally used in the research of surface layers at the air-water interface, acoustic levitation offers the advantages of a minimized ...

One of the key steps in the origins of life was the formation of a membrane to separate protocells from their environment. These membranes are proposed to have been formed out of single chain amphiphiles, which are less stable than the dialkyl lipids used to form modern membranes. This lack of stability, specifically for decanoate, is often used to refute ocean locations for the origins of life...

Network-phase lyotropic liquid crystals (LLCs) derived from the water-directed self-assembly of small molecule amphiphiles comprise a useful class of soft nanomaterials, with wide-ranging applications in structural biology and membrane science. However, few known surfactants enable access to these mesophases over wide temperature and amphiphile concentration phase windows. Recent studies have d...

We investigate equilibrium Shapes of vesicles composed of a mixture of partially miscible amphiphiles embedded in twoand three-dimensional Space. The amphiphilic molecules can diffuse within the membrane and undergo an intramembrane phase separation below a critical temperature. We assume a simple phenomenological coupling between the local relative composition of the amphiphiles and the local ...

We report design, synthesis and evaluation of push-pull quaterthiophene amphiphiles containing one 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (EDOT) and a single strong twist in the scaffold. Planarizable push-pull oligothiophene amphiphiles have been introduced recently as conceptually innovative fluorescent probes that sense the fluidity and the potential of lipid bilayer membranes. The "hyper-twisted" EDOT ...

Novel gemini supra-amphiphiles, [Mim-4-Mim][DBS](2) and [Mim-4-Mim][DS](2), were facilely constructed. A slight variation of building blocks can effectively modulate the driving forces for the fabrication of gemini supra-amphiphiles, thus leading to the fine control of subsequent self-assemblies. [Mim-4-Mim][DS](2), constructed via electrostatic attraction, tends to form micelles and hexagonal ...

Organic semiconductors show efficient electroluminescence which has led to their commercialization in light-emitting diodes (LEDs), however, they have been marred by the thorniest problem of solid-state quenching. Here, we report the synthesis and characterization of two fluorene-based blue amphiphile emitters containing triphenylamine or anthracene side groups and demonstrate formation of thei...