U.S.-Mexico Collaborative Research: Liquid Crystals and Colloidal Semiconductor Particles

这一美国-墨西哥奖项支持锡拉丘兹大学的Janos Fendler教授与墨西哥国家调查研究所的Luz Alicia Focuguchi教授进行研究合作。研究人员打算制备和表征表面活性剂囊泡包裹的半导体、液晶和聚合液晶。含有亲水和疏水区域的分子称为表面活性剂(表面活性剂)、两亲性或简单洗涤剂。它们是水相和反胶束、微乳液、液晶、聚合液晶、囊泡和聚合囊泡的构建块。所有这些系统都有一个共同的主题，那就是它们模仿了生物膜的功能。在这项研究中，这位美国研究人员将在膜模拟化学的许多方面贡献他的专业知识，而墨西哥研究人员将利用她在正电子湮没技术方面的专业知识来研究以表面活性剂为基础的有组织介质。

This U.S.-Mexico award supports Professor Janos Fendler of Syracuse University in a research collaboration with Professor Luz Alicia Focugauchi of the Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares in Mexico. The researchers intend to prepare and characterize surfactant-vesicle- entrapped semiconductors, liquid crystals, and polymerized liquid crystals. Molecules that contain hydrophilic and hydrophobic regions are called surfactants (surface active agents), amphiphiles, or simple detergents. They are the building blocks for aqueous and reverse micelles, microemulsions, liquid crystals, polymerized liquid crystals, vesicles, and polymerized vesicles. All of these systems have a common theme in that they mimic the functions of biological membranes. For this research, the U.S. investigator will contribute his expertise in many facets of membrane mimetic chemistry, while the Mexican investigator will bring to bear her expertise in the application of positron annihilation techniques to the study of surfactant based organized media.