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Dual-functional Janus nanosheets were prepared by growing poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-N-hydroxymethylacrylamide) chains on one face of individual negatively-charged nanosheets derived from K4Nb6O...

Continuous porous poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (pNIPAM) gels were prepared by radical polymerization in a bicontinuous microemulsion (BME) consisting of saline and toluene microphases. The BME gels ...

Dynamic solution structure of a three-phase interface (oil/water/solid) of a bicontinuous microemulsion (BME) was evaluated electrochemically with apparent diffusion coefficients (Dapp’s) from cycl...

Bilayer membranes of chiral double-chain ammonium amphiphiles incorporated an anionic tridentate ligand in enantiomeric orientations, as confirmed by induced circular dichroism. Complexation of aqueous CoSO4 with the bilayer-bound ligand led to formation of chiral Co(III) complexes.

Equimolar mixtures of cyclam amphiphiles and malonate amphiphiles produced uniformly paired bilayers. Absorption spectra and X-ray diffraction measurements showed that molecular alignments were determined by combinations of the alkyl chain length of paired bilayer components as in the respective single-component bilayers.

Cast films prepared from benzylideneaniline- and salicylideneaniline-containing ammonium amphiphiles at room temperature possess interdigitated bilayer structures. These molecular assemblies show various types of crystalline modifications above their transition temperatures.

The steric structures of helices and vesicles formed from bilayer membranes of ammonium amphiphiles were observed without metal coating by high-resolution scanning electron microscopy. These observations agreed with those made by transmission electron microscopy.

Single-chain ammonium amphiphiles which contain the salicylideneaniline unit formed stable bilayer membranes in water. The component orientation is either parallel or tilted depending on the alkyl chain length, as inferred from X-ray diffraction patterns and absorption spectral shifts.

The electrochemical contact with the micro aqueous phase and the micro organic solvent phase in the “middle phase” microemulsion, in which the water phase and the oil phase bicontinuously coexist o...

Mesoporous silica was successfully synthesized via a sol–gel process in a bicontinuous microemulsion of tetradecane/didodecyldimethylammonium bromide/aq HCl ternary system. The surface area, pore s...

Mesoporous TiO2 with high surface area was synthesized via a sol–gel process in a bicontinuous microemulsion. The mesoporous structure was retained to some extent even if the anatase-TiO2 nanocryst...