Hydrogels are increasingly employed as multidimensional cell culture platforms often with a
necessity that they respond to or control the cellular environment. Specifically, synthetic …

Cryo-transmission electron microscopy (cryo-TEM) is a powerful method for uncovering the
structure of soft nanostructured materials. The method is based on ultra-fast cooling and …

This book presents a comprehensive overview of microrheology, emphasizing the
underlying theory, practical aspects of its implementation, and current applications to …

Hydrogels prepared from self-assembling peptides are promising materials for medical
applications, and using both l-and d-peptide isomers in a gel's formulation provides an …

The topology of self-assembled surfactant solutions includes varying degrees of micellar
branching, ranging from linear wormlike micelles to a micellar network. Micellar branching …

We have studied the effect of counterion binding efficiency on the linear viscoelastic
properties of wormlike micelles formed from hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) …

The rheology of wormlike micelles (“worms”) formed by surfactants in water often follows
nonmonotonic trends as functions of composition. For example, a study by Raghavan et …

In this work, we present new insights related to a debate on the morphological structure of
hydroxyethyl cellulose (HEC) molecules when dissolved in water, ie, whether HEC adopts a …

Anionic wormlike micelles, particularly those formed by long-chain carboxylate surfactants,
are relatively less documented though their cationic or zwitterionic counterparts are …

The human islet amyloid polypeptide (hIAPP) is the primary component in the toxic islet
amyloid deposits in type-2 diabetes. hIAPP self-assembles to aggregates that permeabilize …