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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Conn, Charlotte E
• Ces, Oscar
• Mulet, Xavier
• Finet, Stephanie
• Winter, Roland
• Seddon, John M
• Templer, Richard H

Titel

Dynamics of structural transformations between lamellar and inverse bicontinuous cubic lyotropic phases

Ist Teil von

• Physical review letters, 2006-03, Vol.96 (10), p.108102-108102, Article 108102

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

2006

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Quelle

APS_美国物理学会期刊

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The liquid crystalline lamellar (L(alpha)) to double-diamond inverse bicontinuous cubic (Q(D)(pi)) phase transition for the amphiphile monoelaidin in excess water exhibits a remarkable sequence of structural transformations for pressure or temperature jumps. Our data imply that the transition dynamics depends on a coupling between changes in molecular shape and the geometrical and topological constraints of domain size. We propose a qualitative model for this coupling based on theories of membrane fusion via stalks and existing knowledge of the structure and energetics of bicontinuous cubic phases.