For more than four decades, the design of zeolite base catalysts has relied on application aluminium-rich frameworks exchanged with alkali metal cations (preferably Cs+). However, moderate activity associated access and diffusion limitations, high manufacturing costs caesium content (typically over 30%) have hampered their industrial implementation so far. Herein, we discovered that high-silica USY zeolites outperform Al-rich counterparts in a variety base-catalysed reactions relevance fine...

Nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC) is a promising material for formation of hydrogels and nematic liquid crystals. While salt addition known to facilitate hydrogel formation, it remains unclear whether this originates from cationic bridging or charge screening effects. Herein, we demonstrate the effect mono- divalent salts on NCC gelation ordering. A strong correlation suspension zeta-potential rheological behavior was found. Lower concentrations cations were needed decrease form hydrogels. The...

Controlling the assembly of colloids in dispersion is a fundamental approach toward production functional materials. Nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC) charged nanoparticle whose colloidal interactions can be modulated from repulsive to attractive by increasing ionic strength. Here, we combine polarized optical microscopy, rheology, and small-angle scattering techniques investigate (i) concentration-driven transition isotropic cholesteric liquid crystals (ii) salt-induced NCC phase transitions....

Wormlike micellar aggregates formed from the mixture of ionic surfactants with aromatic additives result in solutions impressive viscoelastic properties. These properties are high interest for numerous industrial applications and often used as model systems soft matter physics. However, robust simple models tailoring response solution based on molecular structure employed additive required to fully exploit potential these systems. We address this shortcoming a modified packing parameter...

Hydrogels delivering on-demand tailorable optical properties are formidable smart materials with promising perspectives in numerous fields, including the development of modern sensors and switches, essential quality criterion being a defined readily measured response to environmental changes. Lanthanide ion (Ln3+)-chelating bicelles interesting building blocks for such because their magnetic responsive nature. Imbedding these phospholipid-based nanodiscs magnetically aligned state gelatin...

External magnetic field is a powerful approach to induce orientational order in originally disordered suspensions of magneto-responsive anisotropic particles. By small angle neutron scattering and optical birefringence measurement technology, we investigated the effect on spatial ordering hybrid amyloid fibrils with different aspect ratios (length-to-diameter) flexibilities decorated by spherical Fe3O4 nanoparticles. A continuous paranematic from an initially isotropic suspension was...

Bicelles composed of DMPC and phospholipids capable chelating lanthanide ions, such as 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phospho-ethanolamine-diethylene triaminepentaacetate (DMPE-DTPA), are highly tunable magnetically responsive soft materials. Further doping these systems with cholesterol-DTPA conjugates complexed to a ion considerably enhances the bicelle's size magnetic alignability. The high value cholesterol for bicelle design remains largely unexplored. Herein, we examine how molecular...

Molecular engineering of lanthanide ion chelating phospholipids generating novel polymolecular assemblies with a switched magnetic susceptibility Δ<italic>χ</italic>and alignment direction.

Tuning the rheological properties of surfactant solutions by charge screening is a convenient formulation tool in cosmetic, household, oil recovery, drag-reduction, and thickening applications. Surfactants self-assemble water, upon core shielding, they grow into long wormlike micelles (WLMs). These are valuable model systems for soft matter physics, most explored hexadecyl-trimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) sodium salicylate (NaSal). Replacing NaSal with aromatic salts altered hydrophobicity...

Intermolecular interactions are responsible for the macroscopic properties of materials. Self-assembled micelles ionic surfactants in presence salt a result balance between hydrophobic-hydrophilic and forces. For example, sodium salicylate (NaSal) undoubtedly offers powerful means increasing viscoelasticity hexadecyl trimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) solutions by orders magnitude, which results from formation wormlike (WLMs). The efficiency this additive relies on its ability to integrate...

Ever-growing demand for gluten-free products calls the development of novel food processing techniques to widen range existing baked goods.

Generating lanthanide-chelating aminocholesterol-doped phospholipid bicelles with unprecedented magnetic alignment and tunable susceptibility.

Mixtures of 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DMPC) and its lanthanide ion (Ln3+) chelating phospholipid conjugate, 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phospho-ethanolamine-diethylene triaminepentaacetate (DMPE-DTPA), assemble into highly magnetically responsive polymolecular assemblies such as DMPC/DMPE-DTPA/Ln3+ (molar ratio 4:1:1) bicelles. Their geometry magnetic alignability is enhanced by introducing cholesterol the bilayer in DMPC/Cholesterol/DMPE-DTPA/Ln3+ 16:4:5:5). However,...

Cholesterol (Chol-OH) and its conjugates are powerful molecules for engineering the physicochemical magnetic properties of phospholipid bilayers in bicelles. Introduction aminocholesterol (3β-amino-5-cholestene, Chol-NH2) bicelles composed 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DMPC) thulium-ion-chelating 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phospho-ethanolamine-diethylene triaminepentaacetate (DMPE-DTPA/Tm3+) results unprecedented high alignments by selectively tuning susceptibility Δχ...

Bicelles are tunable disk-like polymolecular assemblies formed from a large variety of lipid mixtures. Applications range membrane protein structural studies by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to nanotechnological developments including the formation optically active and magnetically switchable gels. Such technologies require high control assembly size, response thermal resistance. Mixtures 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DMPC) its lanthanide ion (Ln3+) chelating phospholipid...

Bicelles are tunable disk-like polymolecular assemblies formed from a large variety of lipid mixtures. Applications range membrane protein structural studies by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to nanotechnological developments including the formation optically active and magnetically switchable gels. Such technologies require high control assembly size, response thermal resistance. Mixtures 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DMPC) its lanthanide ion (Ln3+) chelating phospholipid...