Understanding morphological transformations upon temperature-induced mesophase transitions offers mechanistic insights into the self-assembly process. We have recently reported unexpected formation of a microfibrillar lamellar gel in SDS-glycerol mixtures above critical gelation concentration (CGC) as low ~2 wt%. The phase comprised fibrillar structure on microscale and nanoscale. Here, nanosco...

This paper discusses the development of an invariant finite difference scheme to simulate the microphase separation of copolymers in one-dimensional thin liquid films. The film phenomena are modelled using two-phase shallow water equations and the Ohta–Kawasaki potential, which governs the phase separation of the copolymer. Non-positive volume fractions and spurious oscillations are eventually ...

We have investigated effects of guest colloidal particles on the mesoscopic structures of a surfactant/water system by means of small angle neutron and x-ray scattering techniques. The addition of a small amount of colloidal particles between lamellar slits reduces the undulational fluctuations of lamellae and brings about a lamellar to micelle transition. On the other hand, on addition of coll...

We review recent molecular dynamics simulations of thermally activated undulations and defects in the lamellar Lα phase of a binary amphiphile-solvent mixture, using an idealized molecular coarse-grained model: Solvent particles are represented by beads, and amphiphiles by bead-and-spring tetramers. We find that our results are in excellent agreement with the predictions of simple mesoscopic th...

We have studied the self-assembly of amphiphilic dendrons extended with linear polyethylene oxide (PEO) chains and their ion complexes. Keeping the dendron core and linear PEO chain compatible allows for the combination of dendritic core-shell and conventional blockcopolymer characteristics for complex mesophase behavior. An unexpected sequence of crystalline lamellar, cubic micellar (Pm3n), he...

For the deposition of hard layers on hard metals from the gas phase in the systems Ti-C-B, Ti-N-B, Ti-V-C-0, Ti-Zr-C, Ti-C-N, Ti-C, B-C and Si-C at selected deposition conditions the existence of oscillations was established, which result in a lamellar structure of the layers. As shown by Auger-Spectroscopic analyses the composition of the lamellas changes alternately. Reasons for the lamellar ...