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Lin M, Lu X, Lu G, Jiang J. Photo-responsive Organogels Based on Stilbenedicarboxylic Acid and Octadecylamine. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2023.131385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/03/2023]
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Kumari H, Dennis CL, Kline SR, Mossine AV, Deakyne CA, Atwood JL. Solution‐Phase Magnetic Mechanistic Study of Ni‐Seamed Pyrogallol[4]arene Nanocapsules Reveal Presence of Novel Cylindrical and Spherical Species. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022; 61:e202203010. [PMID: 35353949 PMCID: PMC9401055 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202203010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The magnetic properties of nickel‐seamed C‐pyrogallol[4]arene (PgC3Ni) hexamers and dimers are studied for the first time in solution. The combination of small‐angle neutron scattering and superconducting quantum interference device magnetometer measurements of the solution species reveal their paramagnetic and weakly antiferromagnetic behaviour. Surprisingly, the magnetic results indicated the presence of an unprecedented 13 Å‐radius species, larger than both the dimeric and hexameric nanocapsules with both octahedral and square‐planar metal centers. To confirm the presence of this novel species, we performed a mechanistic study of PgC3Ni as a function of temperature and solvent and deduced the presence of two additional new species: a) an 11 Å cylinder with Ni atoms seaming the tubular framework and b) an 8 Å‐radius sphere with non‐interacting Ni centers located within the internal cavity. Select parameters that shift the equilibrium towards desired species are also identified.
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- Harshita Kumari
- James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy University of Cincinnati 231 Albert Sabin Way, Medical Science Building 3109C Cincinnati OH 45267-0514 USA
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- National Institute of Standards and Technology 100 Bureau Drive Gaithersburg MD 20899-8552 USA
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- National Institute of Standards and Technology 100 Bureau Drive Gaithersburg MD 20899-8552 USA
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- Department of Chemistry University of Missouri-Columbia 601 S. College Avenue Columbia MO 65211 USA
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- Department of Chemistry University of Missouri-Columbia 601 S. College Avenue Columbia MO 65211 USA
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- Department of Chemistry University of Missouri-Columbia 601 S. College Avenue Columbia MO 65211 USA
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Kumari H, Dennis CL, Kline SR, Mossine AV, Deakyne CA, Atwood JL. Solution‐Phase Magnetic Mechanistic Study of Ni‐seamed Pyrogallol[4]arene Nanocapsules Reveal Presence of Novel Cylindrical and Spherical species. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202203010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Harshita Kumari
- University of Cincinnati James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy 3225 Eden Avenue 45267 Cincinnati UNITED STATES
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- NIST: National Institute of Science and Technology Foundation Materials UNITED STATES
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Eakins GL, Wojciechowski JP, Martin AD, Webb JE, Thordarson P, Hodgkiss JM. Chiral effects in peptide-substituted perylene imide nanofibres. Supramol Chem 2015. [DOI: 10.1080/10610278.2015.1066011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Galen L. Eakins
- School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, and MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand
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- School of Chemistry, The Australian Centre for Nanomedicine and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Convergent Bio-Nano Science and Technology, The University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia
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- School of Chemistry, The Australian Centre for Nanomedicine and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Convergent Bio-Nano Science and Technology, The University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia
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- School of Chemistry, The Australian Centre for Nanomedicine and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Convergent Bio-Nano Science and Technology, The University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia
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- School of Chemistry, The Australian Centre for Nanomedicine and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Convergent Bio-Nano Science and Technology, The University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia
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- School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, and MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand
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Fan H, Zhao S, Li B, Fan H, Kang W, Huang J. Formation and phase transition of hydrogel in a zwitterionic/anionic surfactant system. RSC Adv 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c5ra01488c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Hydrogel was formed in a mixture of the zwitterionic surfactant HDPS (with a saturated C16tail) and anionic surfactant SDS, and could easily be switched between gel and sol by dual stimulus–response processes employing temperature and salt.
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- Haiming Fan
- College of Petroleum Engineering
- China University of Petroleum (East China)
- Qingdao 266580
- P. R. China
- State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation
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- College of Petroleum Engineering
- China University of Petroleum (East China)
- Qingdao 266580
- P. R. China
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- College of Petroleum Engineering
- China University of Petroleum (East China)
- Qingdao 266580
- P. R. China
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- College of Petroleum Engineering
- China University of Petroleum (East China)
- Qingdao 266580
- P. R. China
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- College of Petroleum Engineering
- China University of Petroleum (East China)
- Qingdao 266580
- P. R. China
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- College of Petroleum Engineering
- China University of Petroleum (East China)
- Qingdao 266580
- P. R. China
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS)
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Solvent-induced molecular gel formation at room temperature and the preparation of related gel-emulsions. Sci China Chem 2013. [DOI: 10.1007/s11426-013-4869-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Mazza M, Patel A, Pons R, Bussy C, Kostarelos K. Peptide nanofibres as molecular transporters: from self-assembly to in vivo degradation. Faraday Discuss 2013; 166:181-94. [DOI: 10.1039/c3fd00100h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Page KA, England D, Texter J. Capturing Nanoscale Structure in Network Gels by Microemulsion Polymerization. ACS Macro Lett 2012; 1:1398-1402. [PMID: 35607115 DOI: 10.1021/mz300521d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Small-angle neutron scattering and turbidity were used to probe nanoscale structure in bicontinuous microemulsions before and after polymerization. Difficulties in capturing nanoscale structure by polymerizing microemulsions have persisted with the use of thermal initiation. Bicontinuous microemulsion polymerization with a reactive surfactant monomer and cross-linker was done with only a 20% increase in repeat distance. This small increase represents better than an order of magnitude advance over previous attempts, exhibiting hundreds to thousands percent increases. Both the network gel and the precursor microemulsion were transparent and devoid of microphase separation.
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- Kirt A. Page
- Materials
Science and Engineering Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg,
Maryland 20899, United States
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- Coatings Research Institute,
School of Engineering Technology, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan 48197, United States
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- Coatings Research Institute,
School of Engineering Technology, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan 48197, United States
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Minakuchi N, Hoe K, Yamaki D, Ten-no S, Nakashima K, Goto M, Mizuhata M, Maruyama T. Versatile supramolecular gelators that can harden water, organic solvents and ionic liquids. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2012; 28:9259-9266. [PMID: 22650420 DOI: 10.1021/la301442f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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We developed novel supramolecular gelators with simple molecular structures that could harden a broad range of solvents: aqueous solutions of a wide pH range, organic solvents, edible oil, biodiesel, and ionic liquids at gelation concentrations of 0.1-2 wt %. The supramolecular gelators were composed of a long hydrophobic tail, amino acids and gluconic acid, which were prepared by liquid-phase synthesis. Among seven types of the gelators synthesized, the gelators containing L-Val, L-Leu, and L-Ile exhibited high gelation ability to various solvents. These gelators were soluble in aqueous and organic solvents, and also in ionic liquids at high temperature. The gelation of these solvents was thermally reversible. The microscopic observations (TEM, SEM, and CLSM) and small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) measurements suggested that the gelator molecules self-assembled to form entangled nanofibers in a large variety of solvents, resulting in the gelation of these solvents. Molecular mechanics and density functional theory (DFT) calculations indicated the possible molecular packing of the gelator in the nanofibers. Interestingly, the gelation of an ionic liquid by our gelator did not affect the ionic conductivity of the ionic liquid, which would provide an advantage to electrochemical applications.
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- Nami Minakuchi
- Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai, Nada-ku, Kobe 657-8501, Japan
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Xue M, Gao D, Chen X, Liu K, Fang Y. New dimeric cholesteryl-based A(LS)2 gelators with remarkable gelling abilities: Organogel formation at room temperature. J Colloid Interface Sci 2011; 361:556-64. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2011.05.074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2011] [Revised: 05/26/2011] [Accepted: 05/27/2011] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Spontaneous Gelation of a Novel Histamine H4 Receptor Antagonist in Aqueous Solution. Pharm Res 2011; 28:2556-66. [DOI: 10.1007/s11095-011-0483-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2011] [Accepted: 05/13/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Pinazo A, Pérez L, Lozano M, Angelet M, Infante MR, Vinardell MP, Pons R. Aggregation Properties of Diacyl Lysine Surfactant Compounds: Hydrophobic Chain Length and Counterion Effect. J Phys Chem B 2008; 112:8578-85. [DOI: 10.1021/jp802193p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- A. Pinazo
- Institut d’Investigacions Químiques i Ambientals de Barcelona, IIQAB, CSIC, c/ Jordi Girona 18-26, 08034 Barcelona, Spain, Department Fisiologia, Facultat de Farmàcia (UB). Av. Joan XXIII, s/n, 08028 Barcelona, Spain, and Unitat Associada CSIC-8004, Spain
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- Institut d’Investigacions Químiques i Ambientals de Barcelona, IIQAB, CSIC, c/ Jordi Girona 18-26, 08034 Barcelona, Spain, Department Fisiologia, Facultat de Farmàcia (UB). Av. Joan XXIII, s/n, 08028 Barcelona, Spain, and Unitat Associada CSIC-8004, Spain
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- Institut d’Investigacions Químiques i Ambientals de Barcelona, IIQAB, CSIC, c/ Jordi Girona 18-26, 08034 Barcelona, Spain, Department Fisiologia, Facultat de Farmàcia (UB). Av. Joan XXIII, s/n, 08028 Barcelona, Spain, and Unitat Associada CSIC-8004, Spain
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- Institut d’Investigacions Químiques i Ambientals de Barcelona, IIQAB, CSIC, c/ Jordi Girona 18-26, 08034 Barcelona, Spain, Department Fisiologia, Facultat de Farmàcia (UB). Av. Joan XXIII, s/n, 08028 Barcelona, Spain, and Unitat Associada CSIC-8004, Spain
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- Institut d’Investigacions Químiques i Ambientals de Barcelona, IIQAB, CSIC, c/ Jordi Girona 18-26, 08034 Barcelona, Spain, Department Fisiologia, Facultat de Farmàcia (UB). Av. Joan XXIII, s/n, 08028 Barcelona, Spain, and Unitat Associada CSIC-8004, Spain
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- Institut d’Investigacions Químiques i Ambientals de Barcelona, IIQAB, CSIC, c/ Jordi Girona 18-26, 08034 Barcelona, Spain, Department Fisiologia, Facultat de Farmàcia (UB). Av. Joan XXIII, s/n, 08028 Barcelona, Spain, and Unitat Associada CSIC-8004, Spain
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- Institut d’Investigacions Químiques i Ambientals de Barcelona, IIQAB, CSIC, c/ Jordi Girona 18-26, 08034 Barcelona, Spain, Department Fisiologia, Facultat de Farmàcia (UB). Av. Joan XXIII, s/n, 08028 Barcelona, Spain, and Unitat Associada CSIC-8004, Spain
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Vijay R, Angayarkanny S, Baskar G. Amphiphilic dodecyl ester derivatives from aromatic amino acids: Significance of chemical architecture in interfacial adsorption characteristics. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2007.11.059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Becker T, Yong Goh C, Jones F, McIldowie MJ, Mocerino M, Ogden MI. Proline-functionalised calix[4]arene: an anion-triggered hydrogelator. Chem Commun (Camb) 2008:3900-2. [DOI: 10.1039/b807248e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Lau C, Bitton R, Bianco-Peled H, Schultz DG, Cookson DJ, Grosser ST, Schneider JW. Morphological characterization of self-assembled peptide nucleic acid amphiphiles. J Phys Chem B 2007; 110:9027-33. [PMID: 16671711 DOI: 10.1021/jp057049h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Peptide nucleic acid amphiphiles (PNAA) are a promising set of materials for sequence-specific separation of nucleic acids from complex mixtures. To implement PNAA in micellar separations, the morphology and size of PNAA micelles in the presence and absence of a sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) cosurfactant have been studied by small-angle X-ray scattering and dynamic light scattering. We find that a 6-mer PNAA with a 12-carbon n-alkane tail forms ellipsoidal micelles (a = 5.15 nm; b = 3.20 nm) above its critical micelle concentration (CMC) of 110.9 microM. On addition of a stoichiometric amount of complementary DNA, PNAA hybridizes to DNA, suppressing the formation of PNAA micelles. At a ratio of 19:1 SDS/PNAA (total concentration = 20 mM), spherical micelles are formed with outer radius Rs = 2.67 nm, slightly larger than spherical micelles of pure SDS. Capillary electrophoresis studies show that PNAA/DNA duplexes do not comicellize with SDS micelles. No such effects are observed using noncomplementary DNA. The shape and size of the PNAA micelles is also verified by dynamic light scattering (DLS) studies. These results provide an interesting case study with competing electrostatic, hydrophobic, and hydrogen-bonding interactions in micellar systems and make possible the use of PNAA in micellar separations of DNA oligomers.
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- Cheryl Lau
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-3890, USA
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Brito RO, Marques EF, Gomes P, Falcão S, Söderman O. Self-Assembly in a Catanionic Mixture with an Aminoacid-Derived Surfactant: From Mixed Micelles to Spontaneous Vesicles. J Phys Chem B 2006; 110:18158-65. [PMID: 16970432 DOI: 10.1021/jp061946j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The aqueous self-assembly of a novel lysine-derived surfactant with a gemini-like architecture, designated here as 12-Lys-12, has been experimentally investigated for the amphiphile alone in water and in a mixture with dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide (DTAB). The neat surfactant forms interesting micrometer-sized rigid tubules in the dilute region, resulting in very viscous solutions. For the catanionic mixture with DTAB, various single and multiphase regions were identified (up to a total surfactant concentration of 1.5 wt %) by means of combined polarizing light microscopy, cryo-TEM, and NMR. In the DTAB-rich side, for a mixing molar ratio in the range 2 < DTAB/12-Lys-12 < 4, a region of stable, unilamellar vesicles can be found. Furthermore, it was found that upon addition of 12-Lys-12 to pure DTAB solutions, the mixed micelles grow and beyond a given mixing ratio, vesicles assemble and coexist with small micelles. The transition is not continuous, since there is a narrow mixing range where phase separation occurs. Self-diffusion measurements and cryo-TEM imaging show that the average vesicle radius is on the order of 30-40 nm.
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- Rodrigo O Brito
- Centro de Investigação em Química, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre No. 687, P-4169-007 Porto, Portugal
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Walde P. Surfactant assemblies and their various possible roles for the origin(s) of life. ORIGINS LIFE EVOL B 2006; 36:109-50. [PMID: 16642266 DOI: 10.1007/s11084-005-9004-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2005] [Accepted: 11/01/2005] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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A large number of surfactants (surface active molecules) are chemically simple compounds that can be obtained by simple chemical reactions, in some cases even under presumably prebiotic conditions. Surfactant assemblies are self-organized polymolecular aggregates of surfactants, in the simplest case micelles, vesicles, hexagonal and cubic phases. It may be that these different types of surfactant assemblies have played various, so-far underestimated important roles in the processes that led to the formation of the first living systems. Although nucleic acids are key players in the formation of cells as we know them today (RNA world hypothesis), it is still unclear how RNA could have been formed under prebiotic conditions. Surfactants with their self-organizing properties may have assisted, controlled and compartimentalized some of the chemical reactions that eventually led to the formation of molecules like RNA. Therefore, surfactants were possibly very important in prebiotic times in the sense that they may have been involved in different physical and chemical processes that finally led to a transformation of non-living matter to the first cellular form(s) of life. This hypothesis is based on four main experimental observations: (i) Surfactant aggregation can lead to cell-like compartimentation (vesicles). (ii) Surfactant assemblies can provide local reaction conditions that are very different from the bulk medium, which may lead to a dramatic change in the rate of chemical reactions and to a change in reaction product distributions. (iii) The surface properties of surfactant assemblies that may be liquid- or solid-like, charged or neutral, and the elasticity and packing density of surfactant assemblies depend on the chemical structure of the surfactants, on the presence of other molecules, and on the overall environmental conditions (e. g. temperature). This wide range of surface characteristics of surfactant assemblies may allow a control of surface-bound chemical reactions not only by the charge or hydrophobicity of the surface but also by its "softness". (iv) Chiral polymolecular assemblies (helices) may form from chiral surfactants. There are many examples that illustrate the different roles and potential roles of surfactant assemblies in different research areas outside of the field of the origin(s) of life, most importantly in investigations of contemporary living systems, in nanotechnology applications, and in the development of drug delivery systems. Concepts and ideas behind many of these applications may have relevance also in connection to the different unsolved problems in understanding the origin(s) of life.
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- Peter Walde
- ETH Zürich, Department of Materials, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
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Onoshima D, Imae T. Dendritic nano- and microhydrogels fabricated by triethoxysilyl focal dendrons. SOFT MATTER 2006; 2:141-148. [PMID: 32646140 DOI: 10.1039/b515299b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Nano- and microhydrogels were fabricated in water by first to third generation triethoxysilyl focal poly(amido amine) dendrons with hexyl spacer. The focal points of dendrimers were hydrolyzed and covalent-bonded through the simple sol-gel process at an acidic or basic catalytic condition. The growth of aggregates and the following gel formation were determined by rapid increase and convergent steady value in light scattering of dendron solutions. The sol-gel reaction was also confirmed from the disappearance of an infrared absorption band of Si-O(CH) stretching vibration mode (1080 cm) and the appearance of Si-O-Si stretching bands (1136 and 1049 cm). The resultant gels were transparent and rather fluid. Transmission electron microscopic images of the gels showed three-dimensional dendritic growing of fine fibrils. The nanogel nuclei grew up favourably to nanogels in acidic conditions and to microgels in basic conditions, and the growth was more remarkable at higher generation of dendrimers. At high concentration of dendrimer, macrogels with fiber-like texture were formed. It was supported that siloxane-linked focal groups constructed main chains and branches of fibrils, and dendron side chains coated polysiloxane backbones. The hydrogels emitted fluorescence, which was stronger at base-catalyzed condition than at acid-catalyzed condition. This indicates that crowded circumstances or large amount of fluorescence-inducing moieties intensify the fluorescence. Fluorescent images of such architectures were visualized on a fluorescent microscope.
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- Daisuke Onoshima
- Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan and Research Center for Materials Science, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan.
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González YI, Kaler EW. Fibrous assemblies and water gelation in mixtures of lysine with sodium alkyl sulfates. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2005; 21:7191-9. [PMID: 16042441 DOI: 10.1021/la0503698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Thermoresponsive, pH-sensitive fibrous structures and gels are formed in aqueous mixtures of the amino acid lysine with oppositely charged sodium alkyl sulfate surfactants. The formation of these assemblies depends on the chain length of the surfactant, which is varied between 8 and 16, the chirality and degree of protonation of the amino acid, and the molar ratio of these species. Self-assembly of the fibers occurs when specific lysine enantiomers are in solution and for pH conditions in which the majority of the amine groups are protonated (i.e., at near-equimolar amounts of HCl and lysine). Racemic mixtures of lysine do not form fibers with sodium dodecyl sulfate. Micelles are the fiber precursors, and the fibers, which can be hundreds of micrometers long, entangle to form gels. With increasing temperature, the gels melt, the fibers dissolve, and a single micellar phase forms. The micelles elongate with decreasing pH when the acid concentration is greater than equimolar with respect to lysine, and they shrink with increasing temperature.
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- Yamaira I González
- Center for Molecular Engineering and Thermodynamics, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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González YI, Nakanishi H, Stjerndahl M, Kaler EW. Influence of pH on the Micelle-to-Vesicle Transition in Aqueous Mixtures of Sodium Dodecyl Benzenesulfonate with Histidine. J Phys Chem B 2005; 109:11675-82. [PMID: 16852433 DOI: 10.1021/jp050111q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Small unilamellar vesicles (approximately 100 nm in diameter) form spontaneously in aqueous mixtures of histidine and sodium dodecyl benzenesulfonate. By manipulating pH, a gradual transition from micelles to vesicles to bilayers to precipitate is observed. The self-assembly of vesicles occurs over a wide range of compositions when the solution pH is lower than 6.0, the pKa of the imidazole moiety on the histidine molecule. This phenomenon is likely the result of attractive interactions between the negatively charged benzenesulfonate headgroups and the positively charged imidazole group in the amino acid. Similar results are obtained when imidazole salt itself is used.
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- Yamaira I González
- Center for Molecular Engineering and Thermodynamics, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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Brizard A, Oda R, Huc I. Chirality Effects in Self-assembled Fibrillar Networks. Top Curr Chem (Cham) 2005; 256:167-218. [DOI: 10.1007/b107174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 212] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Willemen HM, Marcelis ATM, Sudhölter EJR, Bouwman WG, Demé B, Terech P. A small-angle neutron scattering study of cholic acid-based organogel systems. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2004; 20:2075-2080. [PMID: 15835654 DOI: 10.1021/la035041y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Small-angle neutron scattering measurements were performed on some cholic acid-based gel systems in order to gain detailed information about the network structure. The presence of thin fibers with a radius of about 10-20 A was found for various gelators. Two types of interaction between different sorts of fibers were demonstrated, depending on the molecular structure of the gelator. The first type involves the presence of microcrystalline knots with a dimension of about 100-200 A between the fibers. Upon heating, this network gradually disintegrates. The second type involves loose entanglements between flattened fibers. The occurrence of these types of interaction is related to the length of the alkyl tail attached to cholic acid.
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- Hendra M Willemen
- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Wageningen University, Dreijenplein 8, 6703 HB, The Netherlands
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- Lara A Estroff
- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, PO Box 208107, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8107, USA
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