Self-Assembled Supramolecular Architectures (eBook)

NISSIM GARTI, PhD, is the Ratner Honor Chair of Chemistry, member of the management committee of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the head of the Formulation Center of the Department of Chemistry, and advisor to several global companies. He established Adumim Chemicals' Nutraceutical Systems (Nutralease) and Delivery Lyotropic Systems (DLS). PONISSERIL SOMASUNDARAN, is the Director of the Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Studies in Novel Surfactants at Columbia University. His research examines surface and colloid chemistry of minerals, materials and microbes, molecular interactions at surfaces, and environmental engineering. RAFFAELE MEZZENGA is Full Professor at ETH Zürich. His research focuses on self-assembly processes in liquid crystalline polymers, supramolecular polymers, lyotropic liquid crystals, and biological and food colloidal systems. He is a recipient of several international awards in the field of soft condensed matter, including the John H. Dillon Medal of the American Physical Society.

Preface vii

Contributors xi

1. Physics of Self-Assembly of Lyotropic Liquid Crystals 1

Raffaele Mezzenga

2. Rheological Theory and Simulation of Surfactant Nematic
Liquid Crystals 21

Alejandro D. Rey and E. E. Herrera-Valencia

3. Dividing Planes of Hexagonal HII Mesophase 79

Vesselin Kolev, Abraham Aserin, and Nissim Garti

4. Nanocharacterization of Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Systems
97

Patrick G. Hartley and Hsin-Hui Shen

5. Self-Assembly in Lipidic Particles 129

Anan Yaghmur and Otto Glatter

6. Hierarchically Organized Systems Based on Liquid Crystalline
Phases 157

Chandrashekhar V. Kulkarni and Otto Glatter

7. Synthesis and Alignment of Nanostructured Materials Using
Liquid Crystals 193

Idit Amar-Yuli, Abraham Aserin, and Nissim Garti

8. Recent Developments in Lyotropic Liquid Crystals as Drug
Delivery Vehicles 219

Dima Libster, Abraham Aserin, and Nissim Garti

9. Stimuli-Responsive Lipid-Based Self-Assembled Systems
257

Ben J. Boyd and Wye-Khay Fong

10. Nonlamellar Lipid Liquid Crystalline Structures at
Interfaces 289

Debby P. Chang and Tommy Nylander

11. Multicompartment Lipid Nanocarriers for Targeting of Cells
Expressing Brain Receptors 319

Claire Géral, Angelina Angelova, Borislav Angelov,
Valérie Nicolas, and Sylviane Lesieur

Index 357