Lipid vesicles (liposomes) are a unique and fascinating type of polymolecular aggregates, obtained from bilayer-forming amphiphiles—or mixtures amphiphiles—in an aqueous medium. Unilamellar consist one single self-closed bilayer membrane, constituted by the amphiphiles internal volume which is trapped this bilayer, whereby vesicle often spherical with typical desired average diameter either abo...

BACKGROUND Water is essential for life, but some organisms can survive complete desiccation, while many more survive partial dehydration during drying or freezing. The function of some protective molecules, such as sugars, has been extensively studied, but much less is known about the effects of amphiphiles such as flavonoids and other aromatic compounds. Amphiphiles may be largely soluble unde...

p-Sulfonatocalixarenes are a special class of water soluble macrocyclic molecules made of 4-hydroxybenzenesulfonate units linked by methylene bridges. One of the main features of these compounds relies on their ability to form inclusion complexes with cationic and neutral species. This feature, together with their water solubility and apparent biological compatibility, had enabled them to emerg...

PISA reaction networks alone, integrated with other networks, or designing properties into the amphiphiles confer functionalities to supramolecular assemblies.

Wedge-shaped amphiphilic derivatives of 1,3-dipyrrolyl-1,3-propanedione boron complexes, with one or no aliphatic chains attached at one aryl moiety and three hydrophilic chains at the other, exhibited formation of assembled structures in aqueous solutions. UV/vis, fluorescence and DLS analyses suggested that the wedge-shaped amphiphiles exist in assembled modes in the solution state, and TEM m...

Nanographite-like lamellae are obtained by the self-assembly of rectangular OPE amphiphiles peripherally decorated with polar and paraffinic chains.

Atomic force microscopy was used to investigate the mixed monolayer of FC- and HC-amphiphiles. Clear topographic images showing domain structure of the mixed monolayer and the data of the domain size have been provided. It is revealed that in the mixed monolayer the sodium octadecanesulfonate molecules construct the hexagonal domain dispersing in the continuous two-dimensional phase of perfluor...

Two homologues of cereal grain resorcinolic lipids, 5-n-heptadecylresorcinol and 5-n-heptadecenylresorcinol studied in the system employing yeast cell protoplasts showed marked fusiogenic activity. The frequency of hybrid formation induced by studied amphiphiles was significantly higher than that obtained with the use of 40% (w/v) polyethylene glycol 4000. The resorcinolic lipids as fusion-indu...

Amphiphiles with a dendritic structure are attractive materials as they combine the features of dendrimers with the self-assembling properties and interfacial behavior of water-air affinities. We have synthesized three generations of polyester dendrimers and studied their interfacial properties on the Langmuir films. The behavior obtained was, as a rule, the lowest generation dendrimers behavin...