Amphitropic liquid crystal phases from polyhydroxy sugar surfactants: Fundamental studies

Osama K. Abou Zied; Rauzah Hashim; B. A. Timimi

doi:10.1117/12.2083676

12 March 2015 Amphitropic liquid crystal phases from polyhydroxy sugar surfactants: Fundamental studies

Osama K. Abou Zied, Rauzah Hashim, B. A. Timimi

Proceedings Volume 9338, Colloidal Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications X; 933818 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2083676
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2015, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

The self-assembly phenomena on a special class of poly-hydroxy sugar surfactant have been studied extensively. This class of material is classified as amphitropic liquid crystals since they exhibit both thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystalline properties. Hence the potential applications of these non-ionic surfactants are more versatile than those from the conventional lyotropic liquid crystals including those from thermotropic phases, but the latters are yet to be realized. Unfortunately, due to the lack of interest (or even awareness), fundamental studies in thermotropic glycolipids are scanty to support application development, and any tangible progress is often mired by the complexity of the sugar stereochemistry. However, some applications may be pursued from these materials by taking the advantage of the sugar chirality and the tilted structure of the lipid organization which implies ferroelectric behavior. Here, we present our studies on the stereochemical diversity of the sugar units in glycosides that form the thermotropic/lyotropic phases. The structure to property relationship compares different chain designs and other popular polyhydroxy compounds, such as monooleins and alkylpolyglucosides. Different structural properties of these glycosides are discussed with respect to their self-assembly organization and potential applications, such as delivery systems and membrane mimetic study.

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Osama K. Abou Zied, Rauzah Hashim, and B. A. Timimi "Amphitropic liquid crystal phases from polyhydroxy sugar surfactants: Fundamental studies", Proc. SPIE 9338, Colloidal Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications X, 933818 (12 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2083676

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