Swelling of Bicontinuous Cubic Phases in Guerbet Glycolipid: Effects of Additives

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• 作者：Malinda Salim ; Wan Farah Nasuha Wan Iskandar ; Melonney Patrick ; N. Idayu Zahid ; Rauzah Hashim
• 刊名：Langmuir
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：June 7, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：32
• 期：22
• 页码：5552-5561
• 全文大小：667K
• 年卷期：0
• ISSN：1520-5827

文摘

Inverse bicontinuous cubic phases of lyotropic liquid crystal self-assembly have received much attention in biomedical, biosensing, and nanotechnology applications. An Ia3d bicontinuous cubic based on the gyroid G-surface can be formed by the Guerbet synthetic glucolipid 2-hexyl-decyl-β-d-glucopyranoside (β-Glc–OC₆C₁₀) in excess water. The small water channel diameter of this cubic phase could provide nanoscale constraints in encapsulation of large molecules and crystallization of membrane proteins, hence stresses the importance of water channel tuning ability. This work investigates the swelling behavior of lyotropic self-assembly of β-Glc–OC₆C₁₀ which could be controlled and modulated by different surfactants as a hydration-modulating agent. Our results demonstrate that addition of nonionic glycolipid octyl-β-d-glucopyranoside (β-Glc–OC₈) at 20 and 25 mol % gives the largest attainable cubic water channel diameter of ca. 62 Å, and formation of coacervates which may be attributed to a sponge phase were seen at 20 mol % octyl-β-d-maltopyranoside (β-Mal–OC₈). Swelling of the cubic water channel can also be attained in charged surfactant-doped systems dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate (AOT) and hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), of which phase transition occurred from cubic to a lamellar phase. Destabilization of the cubic phase to an inverse hexagonal phase was observed when a high amount of charged lecithin (LEC) and stearylamine (SA) was added to the lipid self-assembly.