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

这个美国-墨西哥奖支持Janos教授 锡拉丘兹大学的芬德勒在一项研究中 与Luz Alicia Focugauchi教授合作 国家调查研究所 墨西哥的核生物。 研究人员打算 制备和表征表面活性剂-囊泡- 截留的半导体、液晶和 聚合液晶 含有亲水和疏水的分子 区域称为表面活性剂（表面活性 试剂）、两亲物或简单的洗涤剂。 他们 是水循环和逆循环的基础 胶束，微乳液，液晶， 聚合液晶、囊泡和 聚合囊泡 所有这些系统都有一个 共同的主题，因为它们模仿的功能， 生物膜 在这项研究中，美国 调查员将在许多方面贡献其专门知识 膜模拟化学的方面，而 墨西哥调查员会把她带到 正电子应用方面的专业知识 湮没技术在表面活性剂研究中的应用 有组织的媒体。

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.