Amphiphiles, ionic

Jiao, J., et al., Decorating multi-watted carbon nanotubes with Au nanoparticles by amphiphilic ionic liquid self-assembly. Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 2012. 408 p. 1-7. 

Sirieix-Plenet, ]., Gaillon, L., and Letellier, R, Behaviour of a binary solvent mixture constituted by an amphiphilic ionic liquid, l-decyl-3-methylimidazolium bromide and water. Potentiometric and conductimetric studies, Talanta, 62, 979,... 

Bowers, J., Vergara-Gutierrez, M. C., and Webster, J. R. R, Surface ordering of amphiphilic ionic liquids, Langmuir, 20, 309-312, 2004. 

Figure 20.10. Amphiphilic ionic self-complementary peptides. This class of peptides has 16 amino acids, c. 5 nm in size, with an alternating polar and non-polar pattern. They form stable (3-strand and 3-sheet structures thus, the side chains partition into two sides, one polar and the other non-polar. They undergo self-assembly to form nanofibers with the non-polar residues inside positively and negatively charged residues form complementary ionic interactions, like a checkerboard. These nanofibers form interwoven matrices that further form a scaffold hydrogel with a very high water content ( 99.5%). The simplest peptide scaffold may form compartments to separate molecules into localized places where they can not only have high concentration, but also form a molecular gradient, one of the key prerequisites for prebiotic molecular evolution.

Kahlweit, M. and Strey, R. (1988) Phase behavior of quinary mixtures of the type H20-oil-n on-ionic amphiphile-ionic amphiphile-salt. /. Phys. Chem., 92, 1557-1563. 

The concept of the dual templating method was further extended by Zhou et al. [131], who introduced amphiphilic ionic liquids (AILs) as structuredirecting agents. The use of l-hexadecyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride as AIL provides the following advantages. It structures the silica walls around the macropores of the inverse opal in a highly ordered, microporous lamellar fashion. The interlayer periodicity of the lamellae is about 2.7 nm, with ca. 

Self-Assembled Structures of Amphiphilic Ionic Block Copolymers Theory, Self-Consistent Field Modeling and Experiment... 

Abstract We present an overview of statistical thermodynamic theories that describe the self-assembly of amphiphilic ionic/hydrophobic diblock copolymers in dilute solution. Block copolymers with both strongly and weakly dissociating (pH-sensitive) ionic blocks are considered. We focus mostly on structural and morphological transitions that occur in self-assembled aggregates as a response to varied environmental conditions (ionic strength and pH in the solution). Analytical theory is complemented by a numerical self-consistent field approach. Theoretical predictions are compared to selected experimental data on micellization of ionic/hydrophobic diblock copolymers in aqueous solutions. 

Self-Assembled Structures of Amphiphilic Ionic Block Copolymers... 

A number of theoretical studies have been devoted to analysis of the self-assembly of amphiphilic ionic/hydrophobic diblock copolymers [13-24]. Most of these studies considered copolymers with strongly dissociating (also referred to as quenched ) PE blocks [13-18, 20] and extensively exploited the analogy between the conformation of PE blocks in a corona and that in a spherical PE brush [25-33] or PE stars (see [10] for a review). The micellization and the responsive behavior of nanostructures formed by copolymers with pH-sensitive PE blocks have also been systematically studied in recent years [19, 21-23]. 

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