In lamellar phases of ternary amphiphilic mixtures~ passages are tube-like connections of neighboring oil(or water-) layers. Passages form spontaneously due to the thermal fluctuations of the monolayers (or membranes), which separate oil and water. Analogous membrane conformations also exist in binary amphiphilic mixtures~ where the membranes are amphiphilic bilayers. We study the shape and the...

Amphiphilic boronic acid (BA)-substituted block copolymers have been utilized in biomedical applications through binding to saccharides, including glucose whereas the anaerobically produced metabolite lactate is unreported. Glucose requires basic conditions, while occurs at neutral physiological conditions. Herein, BA and used for first time convert solvated hydrophobic homopolymer amphiphilic ...

We report a facile strategy to synthesize silica nanoparticles-coated graphene oxide (GO-SiO2) nanohybrids in a water-alcohol mixture at room temperature. AFM observations revealed that silica nanoparticles with ca. 50 nm in size were densely and evenly covered on graphene oxide sheets. Due to the space layer of silica nanoparticles, micro-scale GO-SiO2 hybrid plates could be individually dispe...

Elaborate architectural manipulation of nanohybrids with multi-components into controllable 3D hierarchical structures is of great significance for both fundamental scientific interest and realization of various functionalities, yet remains a great challenge because different materials with distinct physical/chemical properties could hardly be incorporated simultaneously into the synthesis proc...

A general solvent-dependent protocol directly influencing the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in metal oxide/graphene nanohybrids has been demonstrated. We conducted the two-step synthesis of cobalt oxide/N-doped graphene nanohybrids (CNG) with solvents of water, ethanol, and dimethylformamide (DMF), representing tree typical categories of aqueous, polar organic, and organic N-containing solven...

Amphiphilic substances may stimulate cellular events through direct activation of G-proteins. The present experiments indicate that several amphiphilic sweeteners and the bitter tastant, quinine, activate transducin and Gi/Go-proteins. Concentrations of taste substances required to activate G-proteins in vitro correlated with those used to elicit taste. These data support the hypothesis that am...

Nanohybrids using biocompatible and biodegradable materials are explored for their photothermal mediated theranostic applications. These hybrids so chosen that they biodegradable. Gold-based different nanosystems have NIR absorption which is highly favored PTT, but limited by toxicity, stability, clearance. To overcome these challenges, we demonstrated thermosensitive liposome-gold hybrid nanos...

Abstract Production of high-grade graphene-like materials using a simple, reliable processes and its simultaneous transfer onto soft surfaces have not yet achieved; hence impeding wide-ranging graphene applications. Even more complex are required to prepare graphene-based nanohybrids, which offer additional synergistic functionalities in relation graphene. Here, an uncomplicated scalable proces...