title: Spontaneous vesicle formation in a deep eutectic solvent.
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.
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia2006. gregory.warr@sydney.edu.au.
authors.forename: Saffron J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Bryant
authors.forename: Rob
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Atkin
authors.forename: Gregory G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Warr