Large amounts of agri-food by-products, non-edible food, and waste are produced
throughout the supply chain from the initial production to the final consumption stages. The …

Several researchers have reported the use of cholesterol-based carriers in drug delivery.
The presence of cholesterol in cell membranes and its wide distribution in the body has led …

Stimuli-responsive assembly deformation is a key feature in constructing smart soft
materials, which makes them versatile and autonomous. In this study, rod-coil amphiphilic …

Supramolecular materials that respond to external triggers are being extensively utilized in
develo** spatiotemporal control in biomedical applications ranging from drug delivery to …

Herein, O-substituted terpyridine motif was used as both rigid fluorescent π core and ion
binding site, in order to construct an novel amphiphilic organogelator TEC containing …

Surfactants derived from natural compounds have a wide variety of molecular structures and
exhibit various functions. In the present work, 5 surfactants were synthesized by linking a …

The present study was conducted to investigate the effects of the strong van der Waals
interaction and sterol skeleton of surfactants on their interfacial rheological behaviors by …

Despite the continuous surge of interest in supramolecular chemistry, the design and
synthesis of building blocks to develop diverse examples of self-assemblies is still …

Understanding and control over the self-assembly of molecules is desirable in many physico-
chemical processes. Functional groups responsive to a pH change offer immense scope in …

The self-assembly of small molecules into complex nanoscale structures is driven by the
interplay of various noncovalent interactions. It has now become evident that by …