Bicontinuous Liquid Crystals

Preface Introduction Acknowledgments Bicontinuous Cubic Liquid Crystalline Materials: A Historical Perspective and Modern Assessment Kare Larsson Intermediate Phases Michael C. Holmes and Marc S. Leaver Cubic Phases and Human Skin: Theory and Practice Steven Hoath and Lars Norlen The Relationship between Bicontinuous Inverted Cubic Phases and Membrane Fusion D.P. Siegel Aspects of the Differential Geometry and Topology of Bicontinuous Liquid-Crystalline Phases Robert W. Corkery Novel L3 Phases and Their Macroscopic Properties R. Beck and H. Hoffmann Bicontinuous Cubic Phases of Lipids with Entrapped Proteins: Structural Features and Bioanalytical Applications Valdemaras Razumas NMR Characterization of Cubic and Sponge Phases Olle Soderman and Bjorn Lindman Synthesis of Controlled-Porosity Ceramics Using Bicontinuous Liquid Crystals Stephen E. Rankin Controlled Release from Cubic Liquid-Crystalline Particles (Cubosomes) Ben J. Boyd Membrane Protein Crystallization in Lipidic Bicontinuous Liquid Crystals Martin Caffrey Application of Monoglyceride-Based Liquid Crystals as Extended-Release Drug Delivery Systems Chin-Ming Chang and Roland Bodmeier Cubic Liquid-Crystalline Particles as Protein and Insoluble Drug Delivery Systems Hesson Chung, Seo Young Jeong, and Ick Chan Kwon Bicontinuous Liquid Crystalline Mesophases-Solubilization Reactivity and Interfacial Reactions Nissim Garti Applications of Lipidic Cubic Phases in Structural Biology Ehud M. Landau The Controlled Release of Drugs from Cubic Phases of Glyceryl Monooleate Jaehwi Lee and Ian W. Kellaway Index