Self-assembly of surfactants and phospholipids at interfaces between aqueous phases and thermotropic liquid crystals

Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science

Volumn 10, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 111-120

  Lockwood, Nathan A ^a   Abbott, Nicholas L ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Biomolecular interactions; Liquid crystals; Phospholipids; Surfactants

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; DESORPTION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PROTEINS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; THERMOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

BIOMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; ENZYME-CATALYZED REACTIONS; INTERFACIAL ORGANIZATION; PROTEIN BINDING;

SELF ASSEMBLY;

PHOSPHOLIPID; SURFACTANT; WATER;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DESORPTION; ENZYME MECHANISM; GEOMETRY; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MEMBRANE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PROTEIN BINDING; TIME;

EID: 27644475083     PISSN: 13590294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cocis.2005.06.002     Document Type: Review

References (30)

1. S. Manne, and H.E. Gaub Molecular organization of surfactants at solid-liquid interfaces Science 270 1995 1480 1482
2. M.M. Knock, G.R. Bell, E.K. Hill, H.J. Turner, and C.D. Bain Sum-frequency spectroscopy of surfactant monolayers at the oil-water interface J. Phys. Chem. B 107 2003 10801 10814
3. C.D. Bain Sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy of the solid/liquid interface J. Chem. Soc. Faraday. Trans. 91 1995 1281 1296
4. J.C. Conboy, M.C. Messmer, and G.L. Richmond Dependence of alkyl chain conformation of simple ionic surfactants on head group functionality as studied by vibrational sum-frequency spectroscopy J. Phys. Chem. B 34 1997 6724 6733
5. M.C. Messmer, J.C. Conboy, and G.L. Richmond Observation of molecular ordering at the liquid-liquid interface by resonant sum frequency generation J. Am. Chem. Soc. 117 1995 8039
6. R.A. Walker, J.A. Gruetzmacher, and G.L. Richmond Phosphatidylcholine monolayer structure at a liquid-liquid interface J. Am. Chem. Soc. 28 1998 6991 7003
7. S.G. Grubb, M.W. Kim, T. Rasing, and Y.R. Shen Orientation of molecular monolayers at the liquid-liquid interface as studied by optical second harmonic generation Langmuir 4 1987 452 454
8. P. Poulin, H. Stark, T. Lubensky, and D. Weitz Novel colloidal interactions in anisotropic fluids Science 275 1997 1770 1773 This paper reports on emulsions formed by water, thermotropic liquid crystals, and surfactants. The authors describe the formation of topological defects with dipolar symmetry. Droplet-droplet interactions mediated by these defects lead to the chaining of the droplets.
9. P. Poulin, and D.A. Weitz Inverted and multiple nematic emulsions Phys. Rev., E. Stat. Phys. Plasmas. Fluids Relat. Interdiscip. Topics 57 1998 626 637
10. J.M. Brake, and N.L. Abbott An experimental system for imaging the reversible adsorption of amphiphiles at aqueous-liquid crystal interfaces Langmuir 16 2002 6101 6109 The authors describe a general and facile method for preparing interfaces between liquid crystals and aqueous phases at which the self-assembly of amphiphiles can be studied. This paper forms the foundation for subsequent studies of surfactants and lipids at aqueous-liquid crystal interfaces.
11. C.S. Mullin, P. Guyot-Sionnest, and Y.R. Shen Properties of liquid-crystal monolayers on silane surfaces Phys. Rev. A 39 1989 3745 3747
12. X. Zhuang, L. Marrucci, and Y.R. Shen Surface-monolayer-induced bulk alignment of liquid crystals Phys. Rev. Lett. 73 1994 1513 1516
13. K. Hiltrop, J. Hasse, and H. Stegemeyer On the alignment of thermotropic nematic and smectic liquid crystals on lecithin coated surfaces Ber. Bunsenges. Phys. Chem. 98 1994 209 213
14. K. Hiltrop, and H. Stegemeyer On the orientation of liquid crystals by monolayers of amphiphilic molecules Ber. Bunsenges. Phys. Chem. 85 1981 582 588
15. K. Hiltrop, and H. Stegemeyer Alignment of liquid crystals by amphiphilic monolayers Ber. Bunsenges. Phys. Chem. 82 1978 884 889
16. A.D. Rey Thermodynamic model of surfactant adsorption on soft liquid crystal interfaces Langmuir 20 2004 11473 11479
17. N.A. Lockwood, J.J. De Pablo, N.L. Abbott. The influence of surfactant tail branching and organization on the orientation of liquid crystals at aqueous-liquid crystal interfaces. Langmuir ASAP Article (Web release date: 16-June 2005). The authors describe experiments probing the mechanism by which surfactants adsorbed at aqueous-liquid crystal interfaces influence order within the liquid crystals. The study links the orientation of liquid crystals to the structure and organization of surfactants at the interface.
18. J.M. Brake, A.D. Mezera, and N.L. Abbott Effect of surfactant structure on the orientation of liquid crystals at aqueous-liquid crystal interfaces Langmuir 16 2003 6436 6442
19. K.J. Burch, and E.G. Whitehead Jr. Melting-point models of alkanes J. Chem. Eng. Data 49 2004 858 863
20. 4 interface as studied by sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy Langmuir 23 1998 6722 6727
21. M.R. Watry, and G.L. Richmond Comparison of the adsorption of linear alkanesulfonate and linear alkylbenzenesulfonate surfactants at liquid interfaces J. Am. Chem. Soc. 122 2000 875 883
22. M. Barmentlo, and Q.H.F. Vrehen Reorientation of liquid-crystal (LC) molecules in mixed surfactant/lc langmuir films Chem. Phys. Lett. 209 1993 347 351
23. J.M. Brake, A.D. Mezera, and N.L. Abbott Active control of the anchoring of 4′-pentyl-4-cyanobiphenyl (5CB) at an aqueous-liquid crystal interface by using a redox-active ferrocenyl surfactant Langmuir 21 2003 8629 8637
24. J.M. Brake, M.K. Daschner, Y.-Y. Luk, and N.L. Abbott Biomolecular interactions at phospholipid-decorated surfaces of liquid crystals Science 5653 2003 2094 2097 This paper describes the self-assembly of phospholipids at interfaces between aqueous phases and thermotropic liquid crystals. The phospholipid-decorated interfaces of the liquid crystals are shown to possess the mobility of biological membranes, and protein binding events at these biomimetic interfaces were shown to trigger changes in the ordering of the liquid crystals.
25. J. Brake, M. Daschner, and N. Abbott Formation and characterization of phospholipid monolayers spontaneously assembled at interfaces between aqueous phases and thermotropic liquid crystals Langmuir 21 2005 2218 2228 This paper describes physical characteristics of phospholipid monolayers at aqueous-liquid crystal interfaces: areal densities of lipids, lipid mobility, and phase separation of phospholipids at the interface.
26. H. Schindler Exchange and interactions between lipid layers at the surface of a liposome solution Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 555 1979 316 336
27. F. Pattus, P. Desnuelle, and R. Verger Spreading of liposomes at the air/water interface Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 507 1978 62 70
28. B. Alberts, D. Bray, J. Lewis, M. Raff, K. Roberts, and J.D. Watson Molecular Biology of the Cell 1994 Garland Publishing New York
29. E.B. Kim, N.A. Lockwood, N.L. Abbott, and J.J. De Pablo Interactions of liquid crystal forming molecules with phospholipid bilayers by molecular dynamics simulations Biophys. J. 2005 in press
30. P. Jedlovszky, N.N. Medvedev, and M. Mezei Effect of cholesterol on the properties of phospholipid membranes. 3. Local lateral structure J. Phys. Chem. B 108 2004 465 472