Livia Salvati Manni

TL;DR: A specifically designed family of synthetic lipids with designed cyclopropyl modifications in the hydrophobic chains that exhibit unique liquid-crystalline behaviour at low temperature, enabling maintenance of amorphous water down to about 10 K due to nanoconfinement is introduced.

TL;DR: These mesophases can be recycled and enable efficient catalytic activity as well as modulation of the diastereo- and enantioselectivity for the aldol reaction of several benzaldehyde derivatives and cyclohexanone in water.

TL;DR: Small-angle X-ray scattering analyses revealed a phase diagram for MDS lacking the high-temperature, highly curved reverse hexagonal phase typical for MO, and extending the cubic phase boundary to lower temperature, thereby establishing the relationship between lipid molecular structure and mesophase behavior.

TL;DR: A general strategy to demonstrate correct functional reconstitution of active and selective membrane protein transporters in lipidic mesophases, exemplified by the bacterial ClC exchanger from Escherichia coli as a model ion transporter is designed.

TL;DR: Fluorescence experiments demonstrated that the monomeric glucosylated amphiphile is capable of interacting with fluorescently labeled concanavalin A, a D-glucose specific plant lectin, and paved the way to the preparation of other glycosilated amphiphiles differing for the length of polyoxyethylenic spacer, the sugar moieties, and/or thelength of the hydrophobic chain.