Emulsions have been stabilized by carbon nanotube-silica nanohybrids. The as-prepared nanotube-silica particles generate water-in-oil (w/o) emulsions, regardless of the water/oil volume ratio used. The emulsion volume fraction was much higher than that obtained with nanotubes only, and it was found to increase with water/oil ratio due to an increasing amount of water retained in the emulsion dr...

A new class of nanovesicles formed by the self-assembly of amphiphilic Janus dendrimers, dendrimersomes, loaded with hydrophilic or amphiphilic magnetic resonance imaging chelates shows promising properties as a novel, efficient and versatile nanoplatform for biomedical imaging.

Smectites or swelling clay minerals are naturally occurring nanomaterials that can be fully delaminated to elementary clay mineral platelets in dilute aqueous dispersion. This review article gives an overview of the recent progress on how the elementary clay mineral platelets can be reorganized in monolayered or multilayered hybrid nanofilms by layer-by-layer assembly or the Langmuir-Blodgett t...

Many peptides and proteins that act at lipid--water interfaces assume a unique amphiphilic secondary structure which is induced by the anisotropy of the interface. By using synthetic peptides in which these inducible amphiphilic structures have been optimized, one can show that the amphiphilic alpha helix is a functional determinant of representative apolipoproteins, peptide toxins, and peptide...

We determine the phase diagram of several amphiphilic molecules as a function of the amphiphilic parameter alpha defined as the ratio of the volume of hydrophilic to hydrophobic segments using the Gibbs ensemble Monte Carlo method supplemented by configurational bias scheme. Specifically, we study amphiphilic molecules h(1)t(7), h(2)t(6), and h(3)t(5), for which alpha=0.14, 0.33, and 0.60 respe...

Nanohybrids represent a larger variety of functional materials consisting one or more types low-dimensional semiconductor nanostructures, such as quantum dots, nanowires, nanotubes, 2D atomic (graphene, transition-metal dichalcogenides, etc.) interfaced with another, and/or conventional material matrices (bulks, films, polymers, etc.). Heterojunction interfaces are characteristic in nanohybrids...