Two complementary strategies can be used in the fabrication of molecular biomaterials. In
the'top-down'approach, biomaterials are generated by strip** down a complex entity into …

Amphiphilic molecules, of which soap is a typical example, possess antagonistic hydrophilic
and hydrophobic moieties in the same molecule. Carbohydrate amphiphiles, commonly …

Vesicles consisting of a bilayer membrane of amphiphilic lipid molecules are remarkably
flexible surfaces that show an amazing variety of shapes of different symmetry and topology …

The use of molecular self-assembly to fabricate microstructures suitable for advanced
material development is described. Templating techniques that transform biomolecular self …

In the miniaturization of manufactured goods, the practical limits of what can be achieved
when engineering from the “top down” are being approached.(1-9) Despite the continuing …

We investigate the stability of tubular fluid membranes by perturbing them with optical
tweezers. A peristaltic instability appears, with wavelength on the order of the tube …

Tilt of hydrocarbon chains of lipid molecules with respect to membrane plane is commonly
considered to characterize the internal structure of a membrane in the crystalline state …

The self-assembly of nanotubes from chiral amphiphiles and peptide mimics is still poorly
understood. Here, we present the first complete path to nanotubes by chiral self-assembly …

Owing to its chemically reactive hydroxyl groups, dextran can be modified with different
functional groups to form spherical, tubular and 3D network structures. The development of …

Any polar-ordered material with a spatially uniform polarization field is internally frustrated:
The symmetry-required local preference for polarization is to be nonuniform, ie, to be locally …