Triply periodic minimal surface structures and related geometries are widely identified in
many natural systems, such as biological membranes and biophotonic structures in butterfly …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have remarkably different structures as well as biological
activity profiles, whereupon most of these peptides are supposed to kill bacteria via …

Nonlamellar lyotropic liquid crystalline (LLC) lipid nanomaterials have emerged as a
promising class of advanced materials for the next generation of nanomedicine, comprising …

Colloidal crystal engineering of complex, low-symmetry architectures is challenging when
isotropic building blocks are assembled. Here we describe an approach to generating such …

Cationic liposomes (CLs) are effective carriers of a variety of therapeutics. Their applications
as vectors of nucleic acids (NAs), from long DNA and mRNA to short interfering RNA …

Amphiphilic lipids aggregate in aqueous solution into a variety of structural arrangements.
Among the plethora of ordered structures that have been reported, many have also been …

Studying membrane proteins represents a major challenge in protein biochemistry, with one
of the major difficulties being the problems encountered when working outside the natural …

Theaggregation and phase behavior in water of several triblock copolymers of poly
(oxyethylene)-poly (oxypropylene)-poly (oxyethylene)[(EO) x (PO) y (EO) x] has been …

The phase behavior and physical properties of lipids in biological membranes are
exquisitely sensitive to changes in temperature (50). Because membranes (a) act as …

The activities of integral membrane proteins are often affected by the structures of the lipid
molecules that surround them in the membrane. One important parameter is the …