Nonequilibrium self-organization of lipids into hierarchically ordered and compositionally graded cylindrical smectics

• Main Authors: Ho, James Chin Shing, Su, Wan-Chih, Wang, Xuan Chun, Parikh, Atul N., Liedberg, Bo
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Engineering::Materials; Cholesterol; Lipid Bilayers
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/161884
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

When a dry mass of certain amphiphiles encounters water, a spectacular interfacial instability ensues: It gives rise to the formation of ensembles of fingerlike tubular protrusions called myelin figures─tens of micrometers wide and tens to hundreds of micrometers long─representing a novel class of n...