Controlled evolution from multilamellar vesicles to hexagonal mesostructures through the addition of 1,3,5-trimethylbenzene

Novel Mesoporous Silica Materials with Hierarchically Ordered Nanochannel: Synthesis with the Assistance of Straight-Chain Alkanes and Application

“…The formation of microemulsion can be avoided by adding alkanes after silica source and the formation of embryonic mesoporous silica [84]. In the synthetic processes reported by Sun et al [37,43,55,56] and Zhang et al [51] (see Section 2.1.2), alkanes were premixed with silica source and then added into reaction mixture with one exception, in which decane was added into P123-HCl solution before the addition of TEOS [34].…”

Programmed Morphological Transitions of Multisegment Assemblies by Molecular Chaperone Analogues

“…The main strategy so far is to alter the packing parameter of a surfactant [3] leading to morphological changes following the structure-shape concept. By this strategy, the transition of vesicles to hexagonal phases by the addition of trimethylbenzene, [4] the conversions of spheres into rods into tubes by addition of ions [5] as well as other additives [6] have been induced. Other strategies to induce morphological changes have also been applied, for example, the use of twocomponent gel systems [7] or photoisomerization of the building block.…”

Dissipative particle dynamics study on self-assembled platycodin structures: The potential biocarriers for drug delivery

“…In recent years, many researches on the synthesis and characterization of MLVs have been done. Almost all of them are obtained by self-assembly of synthetic surfactants [31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]; there is no report about the MLVs formed by saponins yet. Due to the limitation in experiment method, the forming process of MLVs has not been observed either.…”