Bicontinuous cubic phases in biological and artificial self-assembled systems

C Cui, Y Deng, L Han - Science China Materials, 2020 - Springer
Nature has created innumerable life forms with miraculous hierarchical structures and
morphologies that are optimized for different life events through evolution over billions of …

Block copolymers beneath the surface: Measuring and modeling complex morphology at the subdomain scale

A Reddy, X Feng, EL Thomas, GM Grason - Macromolecules, 2021 - ACS Publications
Block copolymer (BCP) melts are a paradigm for pluripotent molecular assembly, yielding a
complex and expanding array of variable domain shapes and symmetries from a fairly …

Micellar mimicry of intermetallic C14 and C15 laves phases by aqueous lyotropic self-assembly

CM Baez-Cotto, MK Mahanthappa - ACS nano, 2018 - ACS Publications
Concentration-dependent supramolecular self-assembly of amphiphilic molecules in water
furnishes a variety of nanostructured lyotropic liquid crystals (LLCs), which typically display …

Current and evolving knowledge domains of cubosome studies in the new millennium

Y Huang, Z Chang, X Xia, Z Zhao, X Zhang… - Journal of Nanoparticle …, 2023 - Springer
Cubosomes have aroused growing interest recently due to their widespread applications in
pharmaceutical, food, cosmetic industries, etc. Especially, they demonstrate many …

Medial packing and elastic asymmetry stabilize the double-gyroid in block copolymers

A Reddy, MS Dimitriyev, GM Grason - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Triply-periodic networks are among the most complex and functionally valuable self-
assembled morphologies, yet they form in nearly every class of biological and synthetic soft …

Medial packing, frustration, and competing network phases in strongly segregated block copolymers

MS Dimitriyev, A Reddy, GM Grason - Macromolecules, 2023 - ACS Publications
Self-consistent field theory (SCFT) has established that for cubic network phases in diblock
copolymer melts, the double-gyroid (DG) is thermodynamically stable, relative to the …

Stability of cubic single network phases in diblock copolymer melts

P Chen, MK Mahanthappa… - Journal of Polymer …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We used self‐consistent field theory (SCFT) to examine the stability of three cubic single
network structures, single gyroid, single diamond, and single primitive, in neat diblock …

Stabilizing Differential Interfacial Curvatures by Mismatched Molecular Geometries: Toward Polymers with Percolating 1 nm Channels of Gyroid Minimal Surfaces

H Wu, H Huang, Y Zhang, X Lu, PW Majewski… - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Soft materials with self-assembled networks possess saddle-shaped interfaces with
distributed negative Gaussian curvatures. The ability to stabilize such a geometry is critically …

Nanoporous polymer networks templated by gemini surfactant lyotropic liquid crystals

J Jennings, B Green, TJ Mann, CA Guymon… - Chemistry of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Nanoporous polymers with periodic, ordered structures have attracted significant interest for
their potential applications as drug delivery vehicles, biomaterials, separations membranes …

Polar–nonpolar interfaces of normal bicontinuous cubic phases in nonionic surfactant/water systems are parallel to the gyroid surface

T Oka, N Ohta, ST Hyde - Langmuir, 2020 - ACS Publications
We investigated the structures of normal (type I) bicontinuous cubic phases in hexa-, hepta-,
and octaethylene glycol dodecyl ether/water mixtures by small-angle X-ray crystallography …