Spontaneous vesicle formation in a deep eutectic solvent
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In Vesiculo Synthesis of Peptide Membrane Precursors for Autonomous Vesicle Growth
Published on: June 28, 2019
Saffron J Bryant1, Rob Atkin, Gregory G Warr
1School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia2006. gregory.warr@sydney.edu.au.
Abstract:
Solvent penetration experiments and small-angle X-ray scattering reveal that phospholipids dissolved in a deep eutectic solvent (DES) spontaneously self-assemble into vesicles above the lipid chain melting temperature. This means DESs are one of the few nonaqueous solvents that mediate amphiphile self-assembly, joining a select set of H-bonding molecular solvents and ionic liquids.
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