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Micelle structures in unequal mixtures of amino-acid surfactants
In a previous proposal we started to study the micellar structures formed from biodegradable surfactants synthesised using amino acids as the headgroups. The aim of this work is... -
Nanoarchitecture of polyprotein hydrogels
The properties of hydrogels are defined not only by their chemical composition, but also the spatial organization of their components. Applications that require a higher level... -
Nanostructuring of Polyphilic Liquid Crystals
The organisation of molecules in liquid crystal phases relies on many factors, often related to space-filling considerations driven by the volume of different molecular... -
Bulk interactions of surfactant molecules in aqueous particle suspensions
Surfactants represent an important class of compounds owing to their ability to readily locate at interfaces, be it airliquid, liquidliquid or solidliquid. As such,... -
Polymer-Lipid Nanodisc Self-assembly Processes Using Stop Flow
Polymer stabilized lipid nanodiscs offer enormous potential as tools for enabling membrane protein structural studies & biophysics. Polymer stabilized lipid bilayer discs... -
Investigating the effect of nanoparticles on PBI self assembly
The generation of hydrogen from water using light could be a method of providing a clean fuel, which is clearly important for our growing energy needs. We are using perylene... -
Partially deuterated gradient poly(2-oxazolines): self-assembly studies
Gradient and block copoly(2-oxazoline)s have been prepared comprising a partially deuterated hydrophilic poly(2-methyl-2-oxazoline) part and a hydrogenated... -
Investigation of Folded Globular Maltose Binding Protein Based Hydrogels
We have developed a new model to describe the structural architecture of hydrogels composed of cross-linked maltose binding proteins (MBP), supported by multiple techniques... -
Engineering nanoparticles for protein therapeutics - quantifying membrane acc...
The self-assembly properties of lipid systems can be exploited to form lipid membranes with complex morphologies. These include membranes with a lattice-type internal structure...
