Molecular assemblies : characterization and applications

Molecular assemblies in bulk and at oil-water and air-water interfaces are key phenomena widely employed for many applications. This volume presents recent advances in this field relevant to diverse applications such as drug and nucleic-acid delivery, rheological control to facilitate oil thickening, stability of emulsions, formation of hydrogels, stability of latex dispersions, topical creams, food emulsifiers, chemical separations and catalysis, and responsive functional materials. Readers will benefit from an overview of the research frontier, gain a fundamental understanding of self-assembly at the molecular scale, and appreciate connections to the diversity of industrial applications.

Preface Chapter 1: Discovery of Monodisperse Micelles with Discrete Aggregation Numbers, Shota Fujii, Ji Ha Lee, and Kazuo Sakurai Chapter 2: Supramolecular Assembly and Mesophase Behavior of Glycopyranose-Derived Single-Chain Amphiphiles, Ahanjit Bhattacharya and Roberto J. Brea Chapter 3: Self-Assembly and Aggregation Studies of Simple Structural Derivatives of Stearic Acid, V. Ajay Mallia Chapter 4: Foerster Resonance Energy Transfer Probing of Assembly and Disassembly of Short Interfering RNA/Poly(ethylene glycol)-Poly-L-Lysine Polyion Complex Micelles, Christina M. Bailey-Hytholt, Ramanathan Nagarajan, and Terri A. Camesano Chapter 5: Assemblies of Hydrophobically Modified Starch Nanoparticles Probed by Surface Tension and Pyrene Fluorescence, Damin Kim, Ryan C. Amos, Mario Gauthier, and Jean Duhamel Chapter 6: Simple Creams, Complex Structures, Delaram Ahmadi, Najet Mahmoudi, Peixun Li, James Tellam, David Barlow, and M. Jayne Lawrence Chapter 7: Enzyme-Triggered Nanomaterials and Their Applications, Vikash Kumar, Thameez M. Koyasseril-Yehiya, and Sankaran Thayumanavan Chapter 8: Characterization of Colloidally Stabilized Latex Particles by Capillary Electrophoresis, Meng Jing, Wei Gao, Ligeng Yin, Wen-Shiue Young, and Patricia Ryan Editor's Biography Author Index Subject Index